30th of May,

          Crewman Wright finally figured out the location of The island! He discovered that the numbers in the psalms and the poem were the latitude and longitude numbers for the island! What luck, we were close by! The island was only a day’s voyage away!  We set sail immediately! When we landed we followed the map directions. We were at the Hangman’s pool, where my map tells me the water is bad, but one of me men wasn’t listenin’ to me warnings  and found  out the hard way. The fool! We rested at some strange caves where some of me men were scared and spooked. I told the men to wait there-they didn’t like that too much the lily-livered cowards!- and went ahead with Powderkeg, Black Haired Jenny, and Josh Wright. We got to the cliffs and put some ropes down the side and climbed down. There we found a cave. It was pitch black and I couldn’t see a thing in that cursed place.  Powderkeg lit a torch and we entered the cave.  Once me eyes adjusted, I saw a golden glow ahead and we all ran towards it.  There we found what we had been searching for…Blackbeard’s treasure! The gold was piled everywhere-statues, chests full of doubloons and other coins, jewelry, and gems-everywhere! Enough to buy the world! Powderkeg and meself jumped into the pile of gold and threw it into the air. We laughed and shouted to the other men to come join us. I sent some of me men to get the Hangman’s Noose and sail her around the island to just beneath the cliffs. We lowered the treasure down onto the boat with much difficulty and we sailed away, never to be seen again. I thinks to meself, “Is this the last you’ll hear of Captain Scurvy Dog?”  Only the Devil knows for sure…