I have toted back saffron and ... to the Robert Wan Pearl Museum in Tahiti's capital, Papeete, on the first day of my trip. That's where I discovered the terms "black pearls" and "Tahitian pearls ...

the Black Pearl, and its treasure, leaving him to die on a tiny isle. Sparrow mysteriously survives and, as the movie opens, sails into Port Royal harbor in little more than a dinghy. What Sparrow ...