Once you reach the area, I recommend approaching the outcropping from the south side climbing about halfway up. This is the location of the treasure, so head on over there. Just north of Salty Springs is a large rock outcropping, if you view from the east, there will be a ledge about one third of the way to the top with a tree on it. The location pictured is fairly iconic, being the only landmark of its type on the map. The map is rotated 90 degrees clockwise (to the right) which means the map is being viewed by someone from the east. This week’s treasure map is very on-the-nose. This appears at D7 on the main map’s grid. It’s not a particularly well hidden map, just descend down into the mining tunnels and you’ll see it posted on the tunnel walls. The treasure map is located on the bottom tunnel level (underground section) of Shifty Shafts. For those interested in the whole process (or only want a partial answer revealed to them), read on. It will have a picture of the treasure location marked on the map as well as a picture of the treasure itself. If you’re not interested in how the treasure is found – or you’re in a hurry – just skip to the final section of the guide. Remember, like every ‘find the treasure’ based challenge (that isn’t a ‘Road Trip’ one), you can skip straight to the location of the treasure if you already know where it is, bypassing the map step entirely. This week’s map is located in Shifty Shafts, not a particularly big or confusing area, so finding the map is a cinch. This challenge requires you to find a map squirreled away in a specific location, decipher the location the map displays (usually a crudely drawn rendition of a location, sometimes with a little information omitted or manipulated) and ‘dig’ up that treasure for your Battle Pass tier. Week nine’s treasure hunt is of the ‘map’ variety. According to an essay by Edward Lynam, a former map curator at the British Library, Hack had evidently decided it was safer to make a living by “collecting, over a bottle of brandy in the local tavern, secret and exciting information from unemployed buccaneers and selling it to members of the Government and the aristocracy.With a new week, comes a new Battle Pass treasure challenge. The cartographer hired to redraw the maps was William Hack, a former sailor who may or may not have once been a pirate himself. By the time the trial rolled around, the king had already seen it, and arrangements had been made to have an English copy made. Sharpe knew from the beginning that it would be of great interest to King Charles II. Two witnesses gave compelling testimony against him at trial, and yet, surprisingly, he was acquitted. The Spanish ambassador was fuming over the death of the Rosario’s captain and demanded that Sharpe be tried and hanged for piracy. On his return to London in 1682, Sharpe found trouble waiting. (See also: Rare Spanish Shipwreck from 17th Century Found Near Panama.) Because the overland route goes from north to south, Balboa called it the South Sea. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to reach the Pacific via the New World, had crossed the narrow neck of land separating the Atlantic and Pacific at Panama in 1513, much as Sharpe and company had done. Sharpe described it in his journal as “a Spanish manuscript of prodigious value.” One of his men wrote that it was “a great Book full of Sea Charts and Maps, containing a very accurate and exact description of all the Ports, Soundings, Creeks, Rivers, Capes and Coasts belonging to the South Sea, and all the Navigations usually performed by the Spaniards in that Ocean.”īy “South Sea,” he meant the Pacific Ocean. They did not, however, mistake the value of another item they found on the Rosario. (See also: The Real Pirates of the Caribbean.) To their great regret, they later discovered it had actually been unrefined silver-a fortune that would have been “the richest Booty we had gotten in the whole Voyage,” one crew member wrote. The pirates also abandoned 700 slabs of a dull gray metal they believed to be tin. They transferred this prize to the Trinity before cutting down the Rosario’s mast and setting her adrift with her crew of 40 still onboard. Onboard, they found hundreds of jars of wine and brandy, some fruit, and a small amount of money. The pirates gave chase, killed the Spanish captain in a volley of gunfire, and took the ship, the Rosario. Early on the morning of July 29, 1681, one of Sharpe’s men spotted the sails of a Spanish ship. The daring theft occurred off the coast of Ecuador. One of the most valuable treasures they seized was not gold or silver, but an atlas of Spanish sailing charts
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