Port Royal was so raunchy that visiting preachers would give up almost immediately!

>”This town is the Sodom of the New World,” wrote one clergyman, “and since the majority of its population consists of pirates, cutthroats, whores and some of the vilest persons in the whole of the world, I felt my permanence there was of no use and I could better preach the Word of God elsewhere among a better sort of folk.” >He was as good as his word, leaving Jamaica on the same ship that had brought him. Every few years it seemed a preacher would come through town and, horrified at what he saw, would predict that God would destroy the city. ________________________________ **Source:** Talty, Stephan. “Rich and Wicked.” *Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign*. New York: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2007. 139-40. Print. ________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Port Royal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royal)