Thought I'd take a peek at TreasureNet, and there you are, all (most) still going around in circles. Craptid still burying his head in the (coral) sand with all his letters. I've said this before, - a treasure chart is for solving, but nobody in this thread seems capable of doing it. Who wrote what and when, appears to be more important. Some things need to be addressed while I think of them; the postcard sketch by Wilkins. This was sent to me by a colleague in Australia many years before my book was published. The map profile on it is unmistakably the same as on the charts, more proof he drew them. You have to be blind if you cannot see that. Cryptids quote;
.......the impossibility of Wilkins being the hoaxer as he had no knowledge of the maps until 1932'. Unquote. Cryptid is on another planet! Wilkins drew them and conned everyone into thinking he didn't! He was a habitual liar. Who do you think secreted these hoax maps into the furniture? It was Wilkins in collaboration with Hill Cutler, the dealer ideally positioned to do so, before passing them on to Palmer. What was in it for him? I wouldn't know. Ask Wilkins. Why didn't he go after the treasure? Why didn't he go after any of the 100s of others he wrote about closer to home? Anyone contemplating going to the middle of the South Pacific Ocean in the 30s/40s would need a lot of money and be prepared to do a lot of sailing. The same applies today. Cryptid again, quote: ......the Kidd-Palmer maps have nothing to do with Pinaki atoll, this is nonsense you (me) made up.' Unquote. This statement is proof he is not capable of in-depth research, so here's the answer, using Wilkins' map figures, NOT mine: Everyone (those with common sense and intelligence) knows the maps are based on the 1795 Spanish map of JFI. It is so blatantly obvious. It was easy for Wilkins to locate this chart, knowing the Anson file mentions JFI and a Spanish treasure linked to the Spanish Captain General Estaban Ubilla. JFI was a popular place for pirates and stories of buried treasure. Wilkins unearthed the Anson file, probably sometime in the 1920s or before. Quote: ' Treasure Hunting; 'Among the First Lord's papers in the confidential archives of the British Admiralty, in Whitehall, London are documents telling of the adventures of past hunters........' So the subject is a SPANISH treasure! And if you didn't know it, the Spanish used Cadiz as their meridian or starting point for navigation. Wilkins could have put any name on the charts; he chose Kidd for reasons explained in previous threads. Strictly speaking, they should be known as the Ubilla-Palmer charts. The code key for solving the charts is to put '1' in front of Wilkins' figures, giving us LAT 19.16N and 131.30E. Well fancy that, the almost exact position of Pinaki atoll from Cadiz. Wilkins, with his continuing efforts to confuse, has put N for S and E for W. Adding the 6.30 Cadiz meridian gives us 138 degrees longitude West from London. Can Cryptid get his glasses on and see that I did not make any of the above figures up?
THEY WERE PENNED BY WILKINS! I am not likely to get an apology; he'll be too busy working out ways to call me a liar again.
Let us look at the 'Mar Del' maps in his Skeleton Island book. Why did he include two, almost identical, with different direction figures? None of you has questioned this because you don't know. The map within the book, figures only, add the first two rows;
18+7+30+14 = 69. Bottom row; 7+8+4 = 19 (ring a bell at all?)
Inside covers map; add figures, first two rows; 18+7(disguised as 71, those in the know would know that) +26+18 = 69.
Two sets of '69', why? Well let's see, add them together and we get 138, the longitude of Pinaki from London, together with the figure of 19 for latitude. I told you Wilkins was devious. And NO cryptid, I didn't make those figures up either!!!
On the same charts is; Lat.d.m.d. A head scratcher, until you know that it decodes out to Lat 19 via the decoding of Anson's monument. There are people out there saying I made it all up! Really? It just goes to show, you cannot see what is staring you in the face. Because you haven't or cannot work it out yourselves, you rubbish the practical and sensible, genuine work of others, one in particular. Possibly too far advanced for you at this stage, but Anson built into one of his monuments on his Estate, a cypher, in Times Roman capital letters on two lines.. Guess what? when decoded, they give two figures: 138 and 19. Now, where have we seen that before?? and NO cryptid, I didn't make Anson's monument up!! What a stupid and silly man to say I made it all up.
No mention of Anson etc in any of Wilkins' files etc? By virtue of his codes,lies and deviousness, he was keeping it secret, as did Anson, it was a secret expedition to recover a treasure. But anyone doing serious in-depth research will know that he sent part of Anson's file to searchers on JFI in the 1950s, more proof he knew all about it.
Geoff Bath has done some good stuff, and I think I read somewhere - no mention of Anson etc? Possibly because he was concentrating on Oak Island and gathering together documents and letters etc about the Kidd maps saga and maybe not extending his research far beyond his 'bubble'. This was his 'thing', mine was solving the charts.
There are numerous other clues dotted around in his books, all giving the same answer when you know how to work them Another one, probably ignored, is a line in one of Wilkins' books: 'Eyeless and hairless, on th' island Pristarius'. Put there for a reason, containing clues. What he is really doing is drawing your attention to; Prime Star Scorpius. I'm not going into astromaths here, but when you know how to use the astro charts, guess what?; 138 and 19 come out again. No cryptid, I didn't make 'Pristarius' up, it's your favourite friend and master, honest! That's all. Read the book if you want to see other clues giving the same answer.
I shall wait, trembling in my seat, waiting for cryptid to find ways of telling everyone that everything said above is all lies, nonsense and made up! And I've just asked myself the question: 'Why would I want to do that?'
Furthermore, it is impossible Wilkins drew the Kidd-Palmer maps - he did not have any knowledge of the maps until he corresponded with and first met Hubert Palmer in May-June 1932 by invitation. You never comment about this for obvious reasons.
