he shouted in a fierce voice which the echoes gave back from all around. “This must have been the life!”
“Those must have been the bottles from which they drank the molasses and water that they used for rum,” said Katherine. “What fun it must have been!”
“I wish I’d known Uncle Jasper Carver when he was a boy,” sighed the Captain. “He must have been no end of a chap, and Tad, too.”
“Let’s have a look at what’s in the chest,” said Justice.
He raised up the heavy oak lid and the Captain held the lantern down while they all crowded around to see. One by one he lifted out the pirates’ treasures and held them up; wooden swords, several tomahawks, a white flag with a skull and cross bones done on it in India ink, a stuffed alligator, a ship’s compass, a section of a hawser, a heavy iron chain, deeply rusted, a pocket telescope, a brass dagger, a pair of bows and a number of real flint-headed arrows, and a box of loose arrow heads which the Captain seized eagerly.
“Glory! what wouldn’t I have given for a bunch of real Indian arrow heads when I was a kid,” he said enviously.
“They look like Delawares,” said Justice knowingly, pawing them over.
“How can you tell?” asked the Captain.
Justice explained the characteristics of the dreaded weapon of the Lenni-Lenape.
Slim and the Captain could not dispute him because they didn’t know anything about arrow heads, so they listened to him in respectful silence.