This big Mystery by Edgar Allan Poe was solved in a mysterious and interested way. Detective Legrand was able to find out where the hidden treasure was located do to the drawing.
At first he did everything that he was able to do to figure it out but he couldn't. but he still didn't give up so he decide to put the vellum to the fire and then washing it with warm water and then he put it in a pan and left it on top of lighted charcoal. After this Legrand noticed spots everywhere in which looked like figures lined up, that looked like this:.
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But after studying the piece of cryptograph he was able to figure out what it said, and it said the following:.
" " A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the devil's seat forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northeast and by north main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the left eye of the death's head a bee-line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out." ".
Then legrand went out to try to figure out where the "bishop's hostel" was located and some aged negroe woman informed him of a Bessop's Castle and told him that it wasn't any castle but instead it was a rock. And then he paid her to take him there and so she did.
Once Legrand got there he was wondering around trying to look for any clues when he realized that in the riddle a telescope was mentioned and that the phrases "forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes," and "northeast and by north," were directions for the telescope. After this legrand went home and got a telescope and came back to the rock and wonder around with the telescope and with it he discovered a human skull hanged on the tree. .
That is how he concluded that he had to throw the gold bug through the left eye of the skeleton in which he made Jupiter clime up the tree and do. But at first they mistakenly put it through the right, but once the gold bug was thrown through the left eye they were able to find the hidden treasures that belonged to pirates.
The author of "The Gold-Bug" is Edgar Allan Poe. The theme of "The Gold-Bug" is mostly about adventure. ... Jupiter probably believes in voodoo or something because he is afraid of the gold bug. ... The short story, "The Gold-Bug" was really well written. ... In conclusion, "The Gold-Bug" is an outstanding and adventurous short story. ...
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They were out to find new land, adventure, gold, and spices. ... When the settlers first arrived at their new land they weren't happily greeted, there were Indians that wanted to kill them, bugs that swarmed over the land, and marshy areas that could not be used. ... Eventually the temperature came warm, bugs died off, and there was peace made between them and the Indians. ... At this new land they found, bug infested land, swampy areas, and the Indians. ... The Indians and pilgrims became friends and had come up with the Thanksgiving feast, and the bugs also died off. ...
William Golding's Lord of the Flies, published in 1957, is considered a classic among adults and teenagers. ... It is know that fruit cleanses out your system faster than most foods, and since the boys ate so much fruit a day, the island started to have a stench, attracted all kinds of bugs, and became very dirty. ...
One thing Ponyboy was told by Johnny before Johnny died was for Ponyboy to "stay gold" and after reading the letter he realises that he shouldn't throw life away and give up everything he's lived for because he's in a gang. "Don't be so bugged over being a greaser" and should make the most of what he has left, he writes all this, and explains his story in a essay for school, hoping to make a difference to all the hopeless boys that might have similar problems. He has matured through the novel and realise there is more in life to what he thought and he should try to do what ...
News of the "New World" had spread rapidly across Europe, many became eager to travel there to find the many riches of gold and spices Columbus had described (Fuentes, 1992). ... The superstitious Moctezuma did not want "Quetzalcoatl" to come and dethrone him, so he sent Cortes some gold hoping he would please the "god" who would be satisfied and leave. Unfortunately, Cortes saw the gold and decided to find its" source and acquire more. ... The Aztecs were then beginning to starve and were subjected to eating bugs and tree bark (Parkes 1969) which led to more deaths. ...
However, Siegel always stood out from everyone else as the tough, fearless, and crazy individual; he was so crazy that people used to say he was crazier than a bed bug, which resulted in his nickname, "Bug." The name Bug later became Bugsy. ... Siegel and Lansky eventually put together a small gang of their own, and it was called the Bugs and Meyer gang. ... The Bugs and Meyer gang did everything from burglaries and hold-ups to contract killing for the mafia. ... Like every mobster who jumped on prohibition like jumping onto a train full of gold, Siegel and Lansky were quickly recrui...
He planned originally to cover the building in gold leaf which would mimic the color of dying plants and thereby connect the house to the change of seasons and the passage of time, but eventually the concrete surfaces were painted a beige color. ... You have to go down in the stream while the bugs eat you alive but when you go down and look up you can see Mr. ...
The Life of E.A Poe Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 to two traveling actors; David and Elizabeth (Arnold) Poe. By the age of three, his father had abandoned the family, his mother had died of the illness of tuberculosis, and all three children were sent to li...