What I want to know is this : Supposing that I have here in my pocket some clue to where Flint buried his treasure , will that treasure amount to much ? '' `` Amount , sir ! '' cried the squire . `` It will amount to this : If we have the clue you talk about , I fit out a ship in Bristol dock , and take you and Hawkins here along , and I 'll have that treasure if I search a year . '' `` Very well , '' said the doctor . `` Now , then , if Jim is agreeable , we 'll open the packet '' ; and he laid it before him on the table . The bundle was sewn together , and the doctor had to get out his instrument case and cut the stitches with his medical scissors . It contained two things -- a book and a sealed paper . `` First of all we 'll try the book , '' observed the doctor . The squire and I were both peering over his shoulder as he opened it , for Dr. Livesey had kindly motioned me to come round from the side-table , where I had been eating , to enjoy the sport of the search . On the first page there were only some scraps of writing , such as a man with a pen in his hand might make for idleness or practice . One was the same as the tattoo mark , `` Billy Bones his fancy '' ; then there was `` Mr. W. Bones , mate , '' `` No more rum , '' `` Off Palm Key he got itt , '' and some other snatches , mostly single words and unintelligible . I could not help wondering who it was that had `` got itt , '' and what `` itt '' was that he got . A knife in his back as like as not . `` Not much instruction there , '' said Dr. Livesey as he passed on . The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries . There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money , as in common account-books , but instead of explanatory writing , only a varying number of crosses between the two . On the 12th of June , 1745 , for instance , a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become due to someone , and there was nothing but six crosses to explain the cause . In a few cases , to be sure , the name of a place would be added , as `` Offe Caraccas , '' or a mere entry of latitude and longitude , as `` 62o 17 ' 20 '' , 19o 2 ' 40 '' . '' The record lasted over nearly twenty years , the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on , and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions , and these words appended , `` Bones , his pile . ''
`` I ca n't make head or tail of this , '' said Dr. XXXXX .
19o Bones Bristol Caraccas Flint Hawkins Livesey first itt pounds