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The last 'message' from La Buse - a 17 line collection of Greek and Hebrew lettering. www.ciphermysteries.com

translate some lines of text, one referring to a ‘woman,
waterlogged’, another to ‘Jason’. Suspecting that the
quest was somehow connected to mythology and
astronomy, Wilkins returned to Seychelles where he
began excavating in earnest with a team of 23 men.
He was greatly encouraged when, after unearthing
further signs and symbols, he discovered two
letters that corresponded exactly to markings in the
cryptogram. However, the biggest breakthrough was
yet to come; a flat stone discovered on nearby Mount
Simpson upon which detailed compass bearings had
been engraved showed that this was the central point
in relation to which La Buse’s maps and diagrams must
have been charted. A frantic search ensued which

proved fruitless until Wilkins realised that the unit of
measurement for feet (30.48 cm) that he was using,
was not the correct one, but rather the old French
measurement of 32.4 cm. New calculations led him to
the beachfront, to a spot just feet from the high water
mark.
Wilkins’s excitement must have reached fever pitch
when he found that the retaining wall he was obliged
to build there to keep the water and sand at bay
while he worked, lay precisely atop another one that
someone had constructed earlier for presumably the
same purpose! Then, when his downward-digging

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