All Treasure is Not Silver & Gold

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Chapter 15 – How Treasure is Found

Therese, Will, Ana Maria and Jack went to the captain's cabin to discuss everything.

Therese went on to describe how she had discovered the location of the treasure.

"It was remarkably easy!" she said, "I'd always been interested in Black Beard, both because he was a pirate and because he was my great-great grandfather. One summer I was staying with my grandfather and I discovered an old trunk in his attic that was filled with letters, drawings and other odds and ends left by Black Beard. I began to sift through everything and began to find a common theme. Certain words in the letters were bolded, underlined or stressed in some way." She told them

"When I wrote all these words in order of the dates on the letters they made no sense. So I tried doing them backwards, starting with the oldest date. When I was finished a new letter appeared."

"Ye have broken the code mate! Ye need
only to follow the clues in the pictures
and maps and ye will be finding me treasure!"
Black Beard

"I then began to examine all the drawings and maps in the trunk and again found certain items or places emphasized. When I brought everything together I had a neat little map with landmarks and such, leading directly to the treasure." She finished

"And ye are sure of its location?" Jack asked

"After putting everything together there was no other possible location that contained all the landmarks. I was a pretty detailed description." She replied

"Aye, then! We leave as soon as we have found a place to hide the Pearl in case the Goliath is in the area." Jack replied.