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I am sorry you are so imprisined on the iland and please dont let the cheif with the beard poisen you because we would like to hear from you agan. If there is tresure on that iland I should think you could look for it and it would be exiting. But prehaps there is none. We hope there is some on Wecanicut. But it is hard to know sirtainly. Chris and Jerry are going to do a leter.
Sitting there on his lonely height, in sight of his ancestral home, he took out his father's last letter and read it again, after which he once more read the old message from the treasure-ship: "One league due northe of a smalle islet northe of the Islet of Santa Cruz northe of San Salvador I Ralphe Brandon in my shippe Phoenix am becalmed and surrounded by a Spanish fleete My shippe is filled with spoyle the Plunder of III galleons wealth which myghte purchase a kyngdom-tresure equalle to an Empyr's revenue Gold and jeweles in countless store and God forbydde that itt shall falle into the hands of the Enemye I therefore Ralphe Brandon out of mine owne good wyl and intente and that of all my men sink this shippe rather than be taken alyve I send this by my trusty seaman Peter Leggit who with IX others tolde off by lot will trye to escape in the Boate by nighte If this cometh haply into the hands of my sonne Philip let him herebye knowe that in this place is all this tresure which haply may yet be gatherd from the sea the Islet is knowne by III rockes that be pushed up like III needles from the sande.
"Moreover," he says, "those words that have the Latin for their original, the author prefers that orthography rather than the French, whereby divers letters are spar'd: as Physic, Logic, Afric, not Physique, Logique, Afrique; favor, honor, labor, not favour, honour, labour, and very many more; as also he omits the Dutch k in most words; here you shall read peeple, not pe-ople, tresure, not tre-asure, toung, not ton-gue, &c.; Parlement, not Parliament; busines, witnes, sicknes, not businesse, witnesse, sicknesse; star, war, far, not starre, warre, farre; and multitudes of such words, wherein the two last letters may well be spar'd.
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