Posted by allym on January 29, 2009 at 01:43:23 user allym.
In Reply to: Re: Peter Ducks Age posted by Jock on January 28, 2009 at 09:38:59:
> Therefore either the treasure was reburied at some stage, or either Peter Duck, or Captain Flint has got it wrong
or C. None of the above ;)
When Peter Duck says "forty years back", he's in the middle of telling history, thus it wasn't forty years from the present, it was forty years from that point in the past, which could have been twenty years ago
here's a little context:
"They was at me all the time to sail across there with them to fetch the treasure, as they call it, when I’d talked of no treasure but only of a square bag with something in it that likely didn't belong to the two that buried it, and they buried, too, now, forty years back in a hundred fathom of blue water.”
. . .
"My three daughters grow up, proper young clippers like their mother, and folk was beginning to leave me alone about that scrap of paper that I wished I'd lost off Ushant all them years before, and then Black Jake come along."
He was telling people the treasure had been buried for 40 years BEFORE Black Jack came along