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i have completed all goals except hunt boar, find all 4 statues (i only have king and queen), enjoy the palace (where is it), and find beards treasure. pleeease help

I am writing a story where a man makes a treasure map written in his own blood. I know that this idea was in King Solomon’s mines, but I would like to develop that idea or re-use it in my story. It just sounds wicked cool to have something like this in a book. What conditions might he be placed in to use his own blood as ink.

Please don’t answer, because he has no ink. I think that is kind of obvious.

Thanks for the suggestions.
the time that the man lived was about 1700

AS ESTÉBAN DE SANDOVAL, a young cartographer, ventures out of Spain to present day Mexico in 1541, he couldn’t have imagined the treasure waiting beneath a still lake along side an Indian settlement. Captain Blas de Mendoza, Estéban, musicians Roa, Lunes and Zuñiga, as well as Mendoza’s thought to be loyal soldier, Torres, and Father Francisco, the army’s priest, left their ship in the Mar Del Sur and boarded The San Pedro, their home until reaching the shores of New Spain. All with the desire for treasure, they sought out a guide to lead them from the coast to the Seven Cities in hope of finding gold. Zia, a young teenager with as much passion for maps as Estéban, would be this person.
As they approached the first city, much to their disappointment, no gold was found. Yet, after talking to many settlers, they learned a city twenty moons away had the treasure they wanted. Trusting this statement, they left on a dangerous journey through the Valley of Hearts, only to find nothing
protective Indians defending their settlement. Many were injured in a battle between the two groups, though they continued north, and much to their luck, approached a new settlement with gold nuggets and fine gold sand in a nearby river. They obtained the gold dust by illegally killing sheep belonging to the Indians, and placing their hides in the river. What seemed to be success soon changed into disaster when Torres stole the hides and left camp. Finally, a lake with a golden bottom gave the young explorers hope in returning home with their desired treasure. Captain Mendoza drained the lake, and bagged the gold. The others waited until he finally returned, in which they left for the River of Good Guidance.
Throughout their journey, the level of greed increased causing the explorers to go against the law, their religion, and their beliefs. Zia and Estéban’s relationship built by their love of map making was lost when Zia realized Estéban had changed into a greedy man who focused so
solely on wealth instead of his passion.
Captain Mendoza died from a dog attack, and the group split into too leaving young Estéban in the Inferno alongside Father Francisco. The priest encouraged him to bury the gold where no one could ever find it, but Estéban continued with it. Shortly after entering the desert, Francisco died leaving Estéban alone. After his death, he decided to drop the gold in a deep spring, so no one including himself could retrieve it. After losing the gold, he realized how the greed taken over him and that Father Francisco had been right in wanting to lose the gold forever.
After returning to Vera Cruz, Estéban awaited trial for not submitting the Quinto Real, or royal fifth to the king of Spain, and is accused of the murder of Captain Blas de Mendoza, however he believes his trial is focused more on finding the gold than anything. He is found innocent to murder, with the help of Zia, yet faces 3 years of imprisonment for not giving his fifth to the king.
Only Zia preserves both her freedom from greed and friendship with Estéban.

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The Lost Treasure of King Juba: The Evidence of Africans in America before Columbus

The story of a mysterious southern Illinois treasure cave and its proof of the presence of Africans in North America long before Columbus.

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* Re-creates the historic voyage of King Juba and his Mauretanian sailors across the Atlantic to rebuild their society in the New World.

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In 1982 Russell E. Burrows, a treasure hunter in southern Illinois, stumbled on a cache of ancient weapons, jewels, and gold sarcophagi in a remote cave. There also were stone tablets inscribed with illustrations of Roman-like soldiers, Jews, early Christians, and West African sailors. These relics fueled a bitter controversy in the archaeological community regarding their authenticity, leading Burrows to destroy the entrance to the cave.

Researching more than 7,000 artifacts removed from the cave before it was sealed, Frank Joseph explains how these objects came to be buried in the middle of the United States. It started with Cleopatra, whose daughter was made queen of the semi-independent realm of Mauretania, present-day Morocco, which she ruled with her husband, King Juba II. Following the execution of their son, Ptolemy, by Emperor Caligula, the Mauretanians rebelled against their Roman overlords and made their way into what is now Ghana. There they constructed a fleet of ships for a transatlantic voyage to a land where they hoped to rebuild their kingdom safe from Roman rule. They took with them a great prize unsuccessfully sought by two Roman emperors: Cleopatra’s golden treasure and King Juba’s encyclopedic library of ancient wisdom.

Fully illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs of artifacts retrieved from the southern Illinois site, The Lost Treasure of King Juba is a compelling story that could force us to rethink the early history of our nation and the possibility that Africans arrived on our continent nearly fifteen centuries before Columbus.

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