27 OCTOBER 1720
27 OCTOBER 1720
Dear Father,
Dear Father,
We are wealthy beyond our wildest dreams!
We are wealthy beyond our wildest dreams! The bounty left by the marauders who first took the galleon is more than we had hoped for! We found a hidden cache filled with heavy silver plates, gold-hilted swords glittering with jewels, and chests filled with gold chains and another small trunk with loose jewels: rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds. We shall live out our days in ease. I have enclosed a few of the gems as a gift.
The bounty left by the marauders who first took the galleon is more than we had hoped for! We found a hidden cache filled with heavy silver plates, gold-hilted swords glittering with jewels, and chests filled with gold chains and another small trunk with loos
