Die Bilder und Texte sind dem Buch "Be a Codebreaker!" von Gerald Jenkins und
Anne Wild entnommen.
This ancient parchment gives the location of a great treasure which the writer has
discovered and then has carefully hidden. The island is not named but the sketch clearly
shows it to be the one to be called St.Catherine's Island. He had found a fortune, but also
seems to have had more his share of bad luck. When you have broken the code you will be able to
read what happened to him and exactly where the treasure was buried all those years ago.
This message was sent by a naval survey ship using an old fashioned telex machine. These
machines produced their messages on long paper strips, known in the United States as 'ticker tape'.
At one time telegrams were sent that way and the paper tape was cut up and pasted on to a
coloured backgroung, just as happened here. Telex machines were much used by the military
for sending messages in cipher and once you have broken this code you will be able to read what
they discovered on St. Catherine's Island.
