Blackbeard's Treasure - chapter 4 Blackbeard's True Love

The men on Captain Pike's ship were very different
from the British sailors of the Queen Alme. They played
cards all night, and if they lost, they fought with each
other. They were only sailing to the Bermuda Triangle to
find Blackbeard's treasure and steal anything else they
could. Their ship looked like the Queen Anne, except for
the flag flying above the sails. It was black, with a white
skull and crossbones on it. This was the mark of the
pirates.
Some of the men were about to throw a man into the
sea for cheating at cards when Captain Pike stopped
them.
"What's going on here? Are you trying to kill each
other before we find the gold?"
"This one was trying to cheat us at cards. We ca;1't have
that, can we?"
"That we can't my friend, but we're waiting for a
treasure much bigger than the one you play cards for. Put
him in the stocks for a day and let him think about things
there."
The stocks we1:e two pieces of wood with three round
holes in them. The men placed the prisoner's head and
hands in the holes. Then, they lowered the top and they
locked him inside. He had to stand up the whole time.
Captain Pike was standing next to his First Mate,
Santiago, at the wheel of the ship. Santiago asked him

about the clanger of finding Blackbearcl's Treasure.
"They say no one can take Blackbearcl's treasure. Why
do you think you can?"
"I think that Blackbearcl and I are the same kind of
pirate. He wanted everything, and he knew how to get it.
When I see that treasure, when I put my hands on it,
there's nothing that can make me lose it."
There was a pirate in a small seat above the sails, looking
at the ocean through a telescope. This was called the
crov/s nest, and he was the first to see Blackbearcl's ship
sailing ahead of them . He whistled to the men below:
"Ship, straight ahead!"
Captain Pike put a telescope up to his eye. He saw
Blackbearcl's empty ship, then yelled to the man who was
steering.
"Go straight for it! This is what we're looking for!"
Captain Pike and some of his men went aboard the
:mpty ship, but they couldn't find any treasure . Santiago
1 bought they made a mistake.
"Maybe this isn't Blackbearcl's ship. It could be a ship
lost at sea."
"There's only one way to find out."
Captain Pike went below to Blackbearcl's cabin and
Santiago followed him . It was dark and the captain had to
light a candle. He walked with the candle to one of the
(';1bin walls where there was a round, old picture of a
wo111a n. She was a beautiful dark woman with large, dark
ro1tncl eyes. Her black hair was tied at the back of her
IH ·; 1cl , and she had a gold necklace with a round, green
.' l o iiC around her neck.
''Who is it Captain?"
" lt 's a woman who was once the Queen of one of these
islands. They say Blackbeard was in love with her. They
say she was the reason for his death. He came here to
marry her and give her all of the jewels he had. No one
ever saw him again, and no one's ever found the treasure.
This must be his ship."
They went upstairs and Captain Pike told his men to
begin taking up the boards on deck to see ifthe treasure was
hidden and where. While the men were doing this, Pike saw
a clear rectangular spot left by the chest after Captain Scott
took it. The whole deck was grey and dirty except for this
one spot where the chest was for so many years.
"Stop!"
The men stopped searching and looked at Captain
Pike. He raised his hand in the air and looked at the clean
spot on the deck.
"Someone has been here before us ."