Pirate Treasure hunt

The Riddle to find the lost 14th Pirate treasure map of the McGees

Though death may have claimed us, our treasure be hid,
The last of their duties our mapmakers' bid,
To secret away from the bright eyes a-prying,
From scoundrels a-seeking and fear'd foes trying
To claim as their own the treasure unshared,
With cannon a-blazing and scimitar bared.

Following footsteps from ages gone past,
A pirate at heart may find it at last:

First, to the city that fell in the sea;
and second, the home of Calico Jack;
Third, Turtle Island is where you must be;
fourth, east, to Algiers, before turning back;
Fifth finds both Port Royal and Great Turkle Bay;
and by Bonny and Read the next lands were plundered;
Last comes a fair mermaid who's pointing the way;

seek quickly now, pirates---before what's hidd'n be sundered.

Find that map using the riddle given at the beginning.

Do a COMMAND F (to FIND) the main words in each line of the riddle

Find the letters below the key given with each correct map.

The answer had 7 letters, but the keys have 14 (2 for each), so choose well

Enter the answer of the island at the website
http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/kids/behindthepulse/riddle.html

The maps of Elijah McGee
The McGee family had been making and collecting maps, especially pirate maps for many years, and with the supposed help of Daniel Defoe under the pen name of Charles Johnson, wrote A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates.

Piracy has existed since sailors have sailed the seas.
The Greeks and Romans suffered for centuries from the pirates of the Barbary Coast, especially the Barbarossa brothers, where they found great harbors to hide, particularly Algiers.
These pirates were often called corsairs because that was the type of ship they sailed
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Later from the 1600s to the early 1700s another kind of pirate called "buccaneers" found the perfect place to plunder: the Caribbean.
With its vast number of small islands, the Caribbean had many harbors in which to hide, rest, repair ships, and restock supplies without being found.

 


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One pirate, Captain John Rackham, later known as "Calico Jack" Rackham for his habit of wearing simple cotton and not fancy silks, had a home on Cuba and would go pillaging about the other islands. There were also many ships coming from Europe into the area, most so large they could not follow the smaller pirate ships into the shallow lagoons and inlets.


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The Golden Age of Piracy began in the late 17th century on Tortuga, or Turtle Island, when the Spanish tried to drive off all the "buccaneers" hiding there. At first they were an unorganized group, but facing the one enemy of the Spanish, they joined forces according to a strict code of conduct, electing captains, and began taking any passing ships first only for their food, but later their stores of silks, slaves, jewels and gold.


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The other European powers sent "privateers" to capture these pirates who were stealing their goods. One privateer, Sir Henry Morgan, kept for himself what he took from the pirates and hid his treasure on various islands

 


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It was Elijah McGee who made these treasure maps for these pirates such as Sir Henry Morgan and Captain Jack Rackham. He was also hired by notorious female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny who murdered and pillaged their way through Nassau and the Antilles.

 


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The French eventually took possession of Tortuga, but the pirates just moved westward to Jamaica.
On Jamaica, Port Royal sat on the southern end of the island, both the richest and wickedest city in the world, and the center of pirate activity for many years. But, in 1692 an earthquake destroyed most of the city, most of it plunging into the sea. (fell in the sea)

 


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One of the most famous pirates was Blackbeard, formerly Edward Teach. He often sailed the area around Bermuda with its Port Royal and Great Turkle Bay. He was famous for braiding his beard with colorful ribbons and weaving gunpowder into them which he would light for its frightening effect. He did not hesitate to kill anyone, even his own men to maintain his fearful reputation. Once he shot a crewman under a table crippling him in the knee.


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That same man Israel Hands, was one of the few suvivors when Blackbeard and his men were later captured and killed. He swore revenge against his former captain and once back in London, met with Daniel Defoe, then writing his story of Robinson Crusoe, but also a friend of Elijah McGee. Turning against his fellow pirates, Hands worked with Defoe and McGee under the assumed name of Charles Johnson to collect the maps of several pirates, hoping to print them in a book, and sell them to the privateers hunting the pirates and thus making their fortune. Often the maps would be embellished with signs and symbols of the sea, such as mermaids.


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Defoe died and it seems McGee spent much time abroad, perhaps using the maps himself to find the buried treasures. Then there was a fire, maps disappeared, but there was mention of a 14th map ..........  

Find that map using the riddle given at the beginning.

Do a COMMAND F (to FIND) the main words in each line of the riddle

Find the letters below the key given with each correct map.

First, to the city that fell in the sea;
and second, the home of Calico Jack;
Third, Turtle Island is where you must be;
fourth, east, to Algiers, before turning back;
Fifth finds both Port Royal and Great Turkle Bay;
and by Bonny and Read the next lands were plundered;
Last comes a fair mermaid who's pointing the way;

The answer had 7 letters, but the keys have 14 (2 for each), so choose well

Enter the answer of the island at the website
http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/kids/behindthepulse/riddle.html

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