Does anyone remember Joshua Slocum's solution. Savages (pardon, I
meant "indiginous people"} were out to do him harm while he was trying
to get through the Straits of Magellan.

He spread tacks around his deck. When, in the middle of the night the
"indiginous people" boarded they began to jump up and down screaming
as the tacks sank into their bare feet.

Slocum then calmly arose from his slumber, grabbed his trusty shotgun
and thrust it through the companionway. He let go a couple of blasts
into the air. The "indiginous people" did not venture back and ole
Josh completed his round-the-world voyage, the first to do so.

Of course there were a lot fewer pansy whimps around in those days to
concern themselves about the "dangers" of guns, viz Jeff Morris.

Joe