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Piracy, despite all its dangers, has always been a pretty good way to get rich quick. Many of the famous pirates, for example, Henry Morgan and, have accumulated enough wealth to ensure a comfortable life not only for themselves, but also for their descendants for several generations to come. For this reason, a large number of legends arose, telling about countless pirate treasures that sea robbers hid by burying in the ground. In this material, you will get acquainted with the most common legends about pirate treasures.

Treasures of Henry Morgan

• is one of the most successful and famous pirates of the Caribbean, who later also made a political career for himself. After the capture of Panama, Henry Morgan hid a significant part of the loot, which, according to legend, is still buried somewhere on the Isthmus of Panama.. The sum of the hidden pirate treasure is estimated at millions of dollars.
• Another treasure myth involving this pirate tells of treasures buried on Cocos Island, estimated at more than $1,000,000,000! This legend is quite old and appeared during the life of a pirate. In the 19th century, more than 300 expeditionary groups were equipped on the island, but the search for none of them was successful.
• Another legend tells of a pirate treasure in the Cayman Islands. It is difficult to believe in the plausibility of this legend, since it is based only on the fact that Morgan had his own house in the Caymans.
• After the successful capture of Portobello, Morgan began to prepare for his next operation, Cow Island was chosen as a parking lot. On his frigate, the pirate threw a feast for his crew, but in the midst of the fun, an explosion occurred that claimed the lives of almost the entire crew and took away the team's military treasury stored on the ship. The captain and several other people survived, but the treasury went to the bottom forever, thus giving another reason to search for the current treasure seekers.

The myth of pirate treasure

As far as we can tell, only one pirate in history has ever buried his booty, and that happened under rather unusual circumstances. The privateer by name was returning to New York, where he suspected he might be charged with piracy. He separated some of the booty and buried it on Long Island to get a strong argument for future negotiations. But the option didn't work. Kidd was immediately thrown behind bars, the location of the treasure was wrested from him, and then sent in shackles to England, where he was hanged for piracy.

In truth, the pirate treasure myth first originated in a novel by Robert Lewis Stevenson. Written in 1881, this extremely popular novel follows a hunt for hidden pirate treasure. Although this story was fiction from beginning to end, since then people believe that pirates regularly buried some of their booty, but usually they drank it all away. Or lost in taverns. Or lowered everything on the "nice ladies" in the cities. Only a few have had enough common sense to put gold in the bank or spend it to buy an amnesty or a title of nobility, and most spent everything as soon as they managed to get something.

Captain Kidd's Treasures

William Kidd was not one of the most successful pirates and gained his fame solely due to the assumptions about hidden treasures, the search for which continues to this day.

• The ballad "Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas" tells of 200 hidden gold bars. Treasure hunters searched for Kidd's pirate hoard on a number of different islands, but no one was able to find anything significant. Many lowered fortunes in the hope of finding these imaginary pirate riches.
• The only island where the buried treasure of a pirate really turned out to be was Gardiner Island.. There, Kidd hid the treasure shortly before he was brought to trial, at which the question of his involvement in piracy was raised. During the interrogation, William Kidd split, and, trying to use every pretext for his salvation, he told about the hidden treasure. Treasures were soon found by the authorities and sent to England. Kidd still did not escape the lethal fate and was hanged like a pirate, and the found jewelry proved the justice of the verdict in the best possible way.
• There were many fake letters and maps in the name of Kidd, telling about the treasure. In 1951, using such fakes, a fraudulent fundraising was carried out for an expedition to the China Seas, where the treasures of William Kidd are allegedly located.. It's funny, but Kidd has never been to the China Seas, the scammers did not even bother to carefully study the biography and activities of the pirate.
• In 2015, off the coast of Madagascar, a

According to the US Hydrographic Office over the past hundred years, an average of 2,172 merchant marine ships are lost annually worldwide. And those are just the losses. From 1500, when the Europeans, primarily the Spaniards, initiated the robbery of the New World, and until the middle of our century, that is, in 450 years, the world's civilian fleet lost almost a million ships. Only Portugal, and only in the 16th century, lost sea cargo in the amount of 124 million dollars. If we add to this the cost of the lost ships themselves, the amount of losses will increase to an astronomical figure.

And these are only the ships, the fate of which is known and reflected in the documents. And how many unknown tragedies does the World Ocean store? It is believed that for every known and reported shipwreck, there are hundreds of unknowns. On the nautical charts The Admiralty of Great Britain reflected the death of almost 1,600 ships that sank in the English Channel, and almost 6.5 thousand that died off the coast of the British Isles. Summing up the data of the Admiralty on the lost merchant ships and their cargo, we can conclude that almost 20 percent of all gold and silver mined on Earth was lost in sea disasters.

And here are the data on the American Great Lakes: from 1679 to 1951, 7167 ships sank here with a cargo of copper, iron, lead, timber, coal, flour, grain, oil and cash.

So, at the bottom of the oceans, seas and lakes lies enormous wealth, and half of them can be raised to the surface with the help of modern underwater technology. This means that the search for sunken treasures should be considered not just a business, but a Business with a capital letter, very attractive for both professionals and amateurs. A legitimate question: why, in this case, the search and extraction of sunken treasures is not put on a broad state basis, with the involvement of experienced professionals?

In fact this is not true. In the UK, France, Italy and the US, various agencies are involved in the salvage of lost cargoes, mostly sunk during the Second World War. In these European countries, the corresponding programs began to be developed immediately after the end of the war and are still being implemented. As far as the United States is concerned, a special department of the Department of the Interior does not have sufficient personnel and equipment for such work and is forced to limit itself to projects that involve minimal costs with a high value of sunken cargo. At the same time, the government seems to be encouraging the search and extraction of underwater treasures by private entrepreneurs.

In fact, professional treasure hunters rarely take on large projects because of the bureaucratic red tape that is common in such cases. It is easier and more profitable for them to engage in small work, in which there is no shortage, and not to bind themselves with official contracts.

The work of an underwater treasure hunter is difficult and dangerous, and a true professional will take up a specific job only with good views for return. Everything is taken into account, up to the state of the weather: after all, the equipment of a submariner is very expensive and a delay due to weather conditions can deprive the entrepreneur of all hopes for profit.

Every business, every project provides the underwater treasure hunter with new version adds to his professional experience. Factors such as geographic and topographic changes in the seafloor, caused, for example, by tectonic causes, in turn change the direction of currents, tides and tides. As a result, the wreck may be completely buried, hidden by bottom materials, or be moved to another location. The movement of the ship at the bottom can create other obstacles: a strong deformation of the hull, which will prevent the explorer from penetrating inside.

South Florida is a popular area for underwater treasure hunters. The search technique is simple: cruise along the coastal shallows and try to look for signs of sunken ships. And the surest sign is the accumulation of large stones, the remains of the ship's ballast. Such stones are clearly visible in the water to a depth of 16 - 18 meters. Most of the sunken ships off the coast of Florida are found at a depth of 12 - 15 meters, usually on reefs or shallows. So, a 44-gun British frigate was recently found, missing in 1744.

One of the local treasure hunters, a certain Art McKee, is famous for finding several bars of pure silver weighing more than 3 kg each. In addition, he is the owner of many other "seafood", exhibited in his own museum. Most of the exhibits are all kinds of items from Spanish galleons that fell victim to hurricanes. The remains of these galleons dot the seabed of the Florida Straits - from the east coast of the peninsula to the Bahamas.

The huge Santa Rosa galleon, sailing to Havana from the port of Veracruz (Mexico), sank near Key West (the western tip of the long, narrow Florida Keys, south of the Florida peninsula) with a cargo of gold and silver bars and other treasures in the amount of 30 million dollars. Today, it has been discovered by US Navy divers south of Key Ozsta, in an area off-limits to the public.

A preliminary inspection of the sunken ship showed that its hull, apparently, was not damaged, despite the fact that the galleon had been resting at the bottom for hundreds of years. Naturally, it is heavily overgrown with corals and mollusks. After this area is opened, divers intend to raise the treasure.

The first to find treasures in the Caribbean was the 17th-century pirate known for his atrocities, Francois Olone, the thunder of the Spaniards, the leader of the Tortuga pirates. During his famous raid on Maracaibo (Venezuela), Olone heard about treasures worth 300 thousand dollars hidden on one of the neighboring islands. Having finished with Maracaibo, Olone went to this island with his thugs. History testifies that Olone really found treasures there, but is silent about their exact location and the name of the island.

Bartholomew the Portuguese

Another equally famous pirate of the Caribbean, Bartholomew the Portuguese, left a Spanish galleon with a cargo of gold and silver worth half a million dollars at the bottom off the coast of Cuba. This story is like this. One day, the Portuguese was sailing in a small barge off the western coast of Cuba and, bypassing Cape Corrientes, unexpectedly met a large Spanish galleon. Despite the inequality of forces - there were 40 people and 4 guns on the barge, 70 and 20 on the galleon, respectively - the pirates attacked the Spaniards, but their first attack was repulsed. On the second attempt, the galleon was captured and the pirates took it to the west. However, almost immediately they came across three other Spanish ships.

This time the fight was short-lived: the Spaniards captured the pirates, whose leader was among the prisoners. The recent production of pirates - 70 thousand piastres and 120 thousand bags of cocoa - again became the property of the former owners, and the Spaniards on four galleons, with captured pirates on board, headed for Campeche (Mexico, the western coast of the Yucatan Peninsula). Local merchants, having learned about the prisoners, wanted to immediately hang the Portuguese, but the execution was postponed until the next morning. While the gallows were being built in the city, the Portuguese managed to escape from the galleon. Under the cover of darkness, he passed the city and disappeared. For two weeks he spent almost no food or drink, until 40 miles from Campeche he came across a gang of familiar pirates who landed on the shore in search of water. The Portuguese told them his story, not forgetting, of course, to mention the attractive goods on board the Spanish galleons. After that, it was not difficult for him to assemble a suitable team: twenty pirates, led by the Portuguese, went to Campeche in small boats.

Having penetrated the bay at night, the pirates seized the largest of the galleons and, without waiting for the morning, left on it for the open sea. The Portuguese returned to Cuba, where he was caught by a storm. The galleon died on the rocks off the southern coast of the island, the Portuguese himself with several pirates managed to get to the shore. The second time the Portuguese lost a huge prey, which to this day lies near the rocks of Jardin Rocks. No one has ever tried to get the treasures of this galleon - gold and silver bars and coins, the value of which is estimated at 2 million dollars.

Bartholomew the Portuguese appears on the historical stage two years after the events described. He's back in the same area, off the island of Pinos, south of Cuba, aboard another Spanish galleon. This time his production is 12 tons of silver bullion. But again, the storm destroys the ship - on the rocks at the eastern tip of the island of Pinos, where it still lies with an untouched cargo of pure silver.

The story of another Spanish galleon, the Santa Paula, has been captivating the imagination of treasure hunters for many years. The galleon left Havana on the morning of August 12, 1679 and headed for the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands). The passenger list included Spanish grandees, officials and other important people, including the sister of the governor of the Canary Islands. In the holds of the galleon, in addition to other valuables, there was also a "living commodity" - black slaves. The journey had barely begun - the galleon passed three miles from the southeastern tip of the island of Pinos (the modern cape of Punta del Este) - when the captain was informed that some strange sounds were coming from the hold. Captain Fernandez himself went down into the hold and witnessed a terrible picture: in the bottom of the ship there was a hole cut through by one of the slaves, a sort of black Hercules, and the hold was rapidly filling with water. The captain rushed to the deck and changed course, heading for Punta del Este in the hope of making it to shore before the galleon sank.

But "Santa Paula" managed to reach only the reefs at the southeastern tip of the island and began to capsize. The crew and passengers barely had time to leave the dying galleon on the boats, which sank to the bottom just before the reef barrier. Of course, all the cargo remained on board, only the logbook was saved. This magazine was subsequently sent to the archives of the Admiralty, where it was discovered. According to the register, the Santa Paula was carrying a cargo worth $3.5 million: gold and silver bars, coins, etc., as well as a box of emeralds belonging to the sister of the governor of the Canary Islands.
The only person who has seen the Santa Paulo since then is the famous submarine explorer Lieutenant Harry Reesberg. In the hold of the galleon, he found chests with coins worth 65 thousand dollars. Lieutenant Reesberg discovered the Santa Paulo on a submerged rock outcropping more than 50 meters deep on the south side of a reef extending east of Puntadel Este.

However, it may be that not only Lieutenant Riesberg saw the sunken Santa Paulo. Once, a man who had considerable experience in underwater research in the Caribbean came to the office of the President of the Association of Underwater Treasure Hunters (Florida, USA) F. Coffman. He said that he discovered a sunken ship near the island of Pinos, at a depth of about 50 meters. The ship, apparently, sank a long time ago: there was no bulwark, access to the hold was free. With a visibility of about 30 meters, this researcher was able to see that along the entire hold there were small chests, tightly set to each other. All of them were heavily covered with silt and sand, but the narrator had no doubt that they were chests. Lacking any special means to extract the chests, he left the place of his find, hoping to return here with the appropriate equipment. This territory belongs to Cuba. After repeatedly discussing the project with Cuban officials, this submariner did not dare to continue the business: it was clear that the Cubans were trying to find out from him the necessary information in order to raise the treasures themselves.

F. Koffman, a very experienced expert in such cases, does not reject the possibility that the ship found is the Santa Paula.

From the 16th century until the 1940s, the Caribbean Sea was the scene of a stormy and fruitful activity of corsairs and pirates of all stripes, hunting for Spanish ships carrying wealth from Mexico and South America through Havana to Madrid. Such well-known pirates as Olone, Morgan, Montbars, Basiliano, Scott, Davis, Bonet, Rogers, Gasparilla, Teach (Blackbeard), Kidd, Payne, Bonnett and many others of a smaller caliber operated here.

In this area, the remains of many thousands of ships of the "silver fleet" of Spain lie on the seabed, destroyed by severe storms and hurricanes, treacherous reefs and villainous pirates. Tortuga Island off the northwestern coast of Haiti is literally surrounded by a ring of sunken ships: hundreds of galleons, frigates, sloops, barges and others that perished on their way to Spain with a cargo of gold and silver from the New World. Two hundred miles northeast of Tortuga is the Silver Bank (Silver), where in the middle of the 17th century the ships of the Spanish "silver fleet" with a cargo worth 21 million dollars were lost.

Off the east coast of Haiti, near Cape Entagno, lie at the bottom of the remains of the Spanish ship "Golden Doe", which was caught in a hurricane on July 4, 1502. The ship was carrying to the King of Spain gold, silver and precious stones worth 5 million dollars, which the governor of Hispaniola (as the island of Haiti was then called) - Bobadilla - "privatized" from the natives. The great depth and strong currents make it very problematic to get these treasures, among which we should especially highlight the table of pure gold - Bobadilla's personal gift to the King of Spain.

Some details about the treasures of the Silver Bank. Every year, the Spanish fleet, before sailing to Spain, gathered in Puerto Plata (the northern coast of Haiti) with a cargo of treasures from the New World. One flotilla (it was called the Galleon) "worked" along the coast of New Castile (Peru, Chile, Colombia, Panama), the second - "Flora" - cruised along caribbean while collecting tribute in Central America. Loaded with booty, the two flotillas rendezvoused in Havana and then headed for Puerto Plata before making a 4,000-mile rush across the ocean.

On a November morning in 1643, the Spanish fleet left Puerto Plata. The admiral ship "La Santissima Trinidad" headed the fleet. Knowing that large reef shoals are located in a chain along the northern coast of Hispaniola, the sailors kept their course north, into the strait between the banks of Mushuar and Silver. The wind was favorable, but suddenly it died down, and then blew from the northwest, gradually intensifying. Soon a real hurricane was already raging in the strait, the entire fleet was inevitably carried to the reefs of the bank, now bearing the name Silver. One after another, the ships of the "silver fleet" perished, and only the admiral's ship managed to bypass the deadly obstacles.

A few days later, in a miserable state, he managed to return to Puerto Plato, bringing the sad news of the death of the fleet with a cargo of 21 million dollars. Forty years later, part of the $1.5 million worth of cargo was raised, and in our century, Lieutenant Reesberg mapped the location of the sunken ships. Old documents of the British Admiralty testify: "... the bank consists of two large reefs and many shoals; the distance between the North and South reefs is about 7 leagues. The Spanish fleet lies almost in the middle of the North Reef, which is 7 leagues long and 0.5 leagues wide."

Most of the remains of Spanish ships are found at depths of 15 to 30 meters; one ship lies at a depth of 36 meters, another - 60 meters. The entire fleet consisted of 16 ships, which means fifteen sank. Near Crooked Island, north of the eastern tip of Cuba, lies another large Spanish galleon that sank in 1668.

In late July, off the coast of Florida, professional treasure hunters from the 1715 Fleet Company found several hundred gold coins from sunken Spanish galleons. The total value of the treasures is about $4-5 million.

In the same month, a treasure trove of gold coins was discovered near Florida. And in August, there were reports in the media that a train with Nazi gold, missing at the end of World War II, could be found in Poland.

Treasure hunting has long been a business, but luck does not necessarily accompany pragmatists. Treasures are often found by singles, and moreover, quite by accident. RBC chose seven "precious" recent finds

"The Treasure of the Naryshkins"

Price:€4 million

During the repair of the Naryshkin-Trubetskoy mansion in St. Petersburg at the address: st. Chaikovskogo d.29 workers discovered a cache, which contained over two thousand silver items, mostly table silver. The treasure took 40 boxes. Silver could belong to the captain of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment Sergei Sergeevich Somov.

The most expensive items were recognized as two pairs of candelabra. Their cost at the end of 2013 was estimated at 2.2 million rubles.

The state had to pay 50% of the value of the contribution to the three owners of the building in which it was found.

"California Treasure"

Price:$10 million

When and where was found: February 2013, northern California. The exact location is unknown.

The couple, who insisted on anonymity, said they discovered the treasure while walking their dog on their land. They noticed something metallic in the ground and started digging. As a result, eight metal canisters were recovered. They contained over 1,400 gold and silver coins from the end of the 19th century.

Soon after the discovery of the treasure, the media began to speculate on the assumption that the couple would have to turn over what they found to the US government. The fact is that at the beginning of the 20th century, a theft was committed from the San Francisco Mint. The stolen coins were similar in type to those found in Northern California, and under the laws of the United States, the government had the opportunity to insist on the return of the property stolen from it. The assumption was eventually found to be false.

Anglo-Saxon Hoard in Buckinghamshire

Price:£1m

A hoard of 5251 coins was discovered by treasure hunter Paul Coleman. The coins were silver. They date from the end of the 10th to the beginning of the 11th century. Coins were minted during the reigns of kings Æthelred the Unwise (978–1013, 1014–1016) and Cnut the Great (1016–1035). The hoard is considered the largest collection of coins from the Anglo-Saxon period ever discovered in the UK.

The cache was found by Coleman by accident. He later recalled that he barely had enough money to travel to Buckinghamshire - at the time of the treasure discovery, Coleman was unemployed. He had to transfer £500,000 to the owner of the land where the treasure was located.

"Priceless" treasure on the Mediterranean coast of Israel

Price: Priceless

When and where was it found: February 2015, Caesarea National Park, Israel.

In February 2015, a group of recreational divers discovered over 2,000 gold coins on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. At first they assumed that the coins were toy souvenirs, but they quickly realized that they were wrong. They notified the directorate of the diving club, who alerted the authorities to the find.

The coins belonged to various historical periods and were in circulation in the Fatimid Caliphate. Scientists have suggested that the coins were transported by ship to Egypt, but the ship unknown reasons sank. A spokesperson for the Israel Antiquities Authority told AFP that the find was "priceless."

Later, Slate reported that the divers who found the treasure did not receive anything.

"Coins of the steamer "City of Cairo"

Price: about $50 million

When and where they were found: In 2011, the location of the remains of the Cairo City steamship, which transported silver from Bombay to London, was located. The ship was sunk by a German submarine in 1942. By September 2013, the operation to extract some of the gold was completed. She became known in April 2015.

"City of Cairo" was sunk 772 km south of the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. On board were silver coins, which were supposed to be delivered from Bombay to the UK. For a long time it was believed that finding the remains of the ship was not possible, but in 2011 the UK government hired Deep Ocean Search to search for it. The remains were at a depth of 5150 meters - this is deeper than the remains of the Titanic are located (at a depth of 3700 m).

The successful search operation and the extraction of "most" of the $50 million worth of silver became known in April 2015.

"Golden Solids of St. Albans"

Price:£100k

When and where they were found: October 2012 near St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

In October 2012, near the city of St. Albans in the British county of Hertfordshire, the novice treasure hunter Wesley Carrington discovered 55 gold solids immediately after buying his first metal detector. it rare coins period of the late Roman Empire. Carrington received £50,000. The rest went to the owner of the land where he was doing research. In May 2015, the coins were purchased by one of the museums in St Albans.

The life of a pirate is unthinkable without the sea, ship, battles, treasures, rum and women. The first four points in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag great attention is paid, the rest is secondary: there is no time to revel and drink, but it is impossible to change (Caroline is waiting on the banks of the Kenway, to whom he promised to return rich and famous). An active privateering and treasure hunt will help to meet the two-year deadline and try to keep the promise to the upstart pirate. Treasures in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag It's one of the ways to get rich quick. Raids on trade caravans also bring good profit, but are associated with great risk and danger. After some time, the endless skirmishes are completely boring because of the monotony of actions, ship boardings become boring and do not seem to be more than something exciting. From now on, naval contracts, treasure hunts, guild quests, and many other pleasant little things help to dispel boredom. Search for treasures in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag will be based on maps that are hidden in various parts of the Caribbean. Most often they can be found next to the remains of pirate adventurers on the sandy shores of the islands or in secluded and hard-to-reach places ( red cross icon appears after visiting viewpoints in the selected location).

Found treasure maps contain clues: coordinates and schematic sketches of landmarks. You can already be in the shoes of a treasure hunter at the very beginning of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, when before leaving Cape Bonavista - after the merchant Steed Bonnet was freed from the clutches of British soldiers - the corpse of an adventurer with a map in his hands will be found on the sandy shore. A cursory acquaintance will make it clear that the treasure is in the nearest cave. When Edward gets close enough to the target, a golden glow, which will indicate the exact location of buried treasure. To dig it, no tools are needed, everything is done automatically after pressing the [E] key. Eagle vision is also no help now, it is useless, because additional clues do not appear, this does not happen even in cases where the location of the treasure is already known. Furthermore, buried chests cannot be found without maps- the "Dig" option simply won't appear. There is no need to rejoice ahead of time at the simplicity with which it will be possible to find and dig out the first treasure chest. In the future, the maps lose their link to the places where they were found. That is, it will be necessary to look for treasures not on the island where the map was found, but on another.

The main thing is to use the information received correctly. The Caribbean map is divided into 64 sectors (8x8) that can hold values ​​from 0 to 1000. The countdown starts from the bottom left corner. The coordinates do not allow you to make a mistake with the choice of the territory to start the search, since the numbers indicated in the hints are the latitude (horizontal sectors) and longitude (vertical sectors). Simply put, if the hint, for example, indicates the value 307.195 (Mysterios Island), we look for it in the third vertical column, starting from the left edge of the map. To get detailed information about the island, just hover over its icon. If the coordinate values ​​match, then the island where the treasure is buried is found. It remains only to find and dig out the treasure chest, referring to with hint pattern(keys and [F]). Treasure hunts can be postponed until later, after completing the main plot of the game, there will be plenty of time to walk the entire Caribbean up and down. Do not ignore the fast travel points, they help to overcome huge expanses of water in the blink of an eye. Awards for effort and patience money serves, and several achievements in the Uplay and STEAM systems.

The last three of the twenty-two treasures in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag are mined using cards delivered from abroad. Fleet management and mission selection is done through the navigation map in the captain's cabin on the Jackdaw (connection to Ubisoft servers is required). AT pirated versions there is no such possibility. Coordinates of sea convoys and treasure maps can be bought in taverns by paying the innkeeper 200 reais for information.

Location of treasure maps and buried chests in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag:

1. Cape Bonavista() - the map lies on the corpse near the shore, not far from the place where the soldiers mocked the merchant Steed Bonnet. You can dig up a treasure in a grotto under a cliff (no need to return to the jungle).
   • Reward: 1500R.
2. Havana() - the map lies on a corpse behind the cathedral, in the northern part of the city, next to the mixed goods shop. The treasure is hidden on the southern sandy shore, where the city wall begins, separating the city from the jungle (between the wall and the curved palm tree).
   • Reward: blueprint - figurehead from Queen Anne's Revenge, 3000R.
3. Abaco Island() - the map lies on a corpse near a palm tree on the shore in the southwestern part of the island (visit according to the plot). The tooltip depicts the island of the Salt Lagoon, the treasure is buried near a large boulder in the northwestern part of the island. There is no said treasure on the island of Abaco, you can not look for it.
   • Reward: blueprint - snake nose figure, 3000R.
4. Andreas Island() - the map lies on a corpse at the southern tip of the island (visit according to the plot). The buried chest is among the palm trees on the island of Abaco, to the side of the stern of a Spanish ship of the line that has run aground. The ship appears later, after the development of the game's plot.
   • Reward: 4000R.
5. salt lagoon() - the map lies on a corpse off the northeast coast of the island (visit according to the story). The treasure is buried behind the windmill on a cliff in the eastern part of New Bone Island. The island is guarded by a level 60 battleship.
   • Reward: 4000R.
6. Mayaguana Island() - the card lies on a corpse in a stone passage in the center of the island. The treasure is hidden on a small island between palm trees in the southwestern part of Andreas Island.
   • Reward: blueprint - special harpoon, 3000R.
7. Great Inagua() - the map lies on a corpse in a cave near the northwestern tip of the island. The entrance to the cave is above the beach. You need to run along the trunks of several fallen trees without going deep into the jungle. To see exactly where the path begins, look up. The treasure chest is buried in Nassau, north of the estate on the hill. We go down the path (as shown in the hint), before reaching the swamp, turn left, to the area with a flat boulder and a fallen tree.
   • Reward: blueprint - gray sails, 3000R.
8. Tortuga() - the map lies on a corpse off the northeast coast of the island. The treasure is hidden in the jungle in the eastern part of Matanzas, in a niche between two Mayan steles, to which a path leads behind the warehouse.
   • Reward: blueprint - a special compartment for mortar cores, 3000R.
9. cumberland bay() - the map lies on a corpse off the southeastern coast of the island, from where the Spanish battleship guarding the entrance to the harbor is clearly visible. The treasure is hidden in a clearing on the island of Pinos, between the main pyramid with a viewpoint and a large tree.
   • Reward: blueprint - Aquila helm, 3000R.
10. Anotto Bay() - the card lies on a corpse in the flooded mines. To go underwater, you need a diving bell, which appears during the story. To swim to the room, you need to use the air pockets marked on the map. They will help replenish your air supply. A staircase will help you get out of the mines, which will lead directly to the ship from the last room where the smugglers will gather. The buried treasure chest is located in Principe, on a hill behind two towers next to the palisade, where story mission held the first group of hostages and from where Edward jumped, trying to catch up with the Sage.
    • Reward: 4000R.
11. Petit Cavern() - the card lies on the corpse at the firing post in the western part of the grotto. Valuables are buried near an old tree on the coast of Tulum, next to the southern viewpoint.
    • Reward: 4000R.
12. Ile-a-your() - the map lies on a corpse near the northwestern tip of the island. The treasure is hidden by a palm tree in the smugglers' cave on Igüey, not far from the fire and the boat.
    • Reward: 4000R.
13. providencia() - the map lies on a corpse in the northern part of the island along the path behind Wade (according to the story in chapter 8). The treasure is buried under the palm trees next to two huts opposite the northern viewpoint on Long Bay.
    • Reward: 4000R.
14. Mysterios() - the card lies on the corpse at the middle level of the destroyed Mayan pyramid in the center of the island (according to the plot in chapter 10). The chest with the treasure is hidden between three wooden boxes next to the wreck, behind all the ships in the bay in the eastern part of Kingston.
    • Reward: Blueprint - Ebony Steering Wheel, 3000R.
15. Santanilla() - the card lies on the corpse behind the broken bow of the ship in the northern part of the island (according to the plot in chapter 10). The treasure rests in the tunnels under San Juan. As soon as Kenway emerges from under the water, after unexpected meeting with a moraine, and stumble upon a couple of smugglers, we rise to a wooden platform and take a step towards the exit near the ceiling, the inscription "Dig" will appear on the ground.
    • Reward: blueprint - special incendiary projectiles, 3000R.
16. Corozal() - the card lies on a corpse near the fire on the northern side of the island. The jewels are hidden in a niche, in the corner to the left of the exit from the water tunnel with jellyfish and up to the stairs to the temple with smugglers, in the caves of Ambergris Key. For deep diving underwater, you need a diving bell, which appears during the course of the story.
    • Reward: 4000R.
17. Ambergris Key() - the map lies on a corpse in a dead end, not far from the exit, on the upper level of the temple with smugglers. The wealth is hidden in a chest by the fountain behind the main Mayan temple, behind the vantage point, in the temple complex on Mysterios.
    • Reward: Blueprint - Special Heavy Cannonballs, 3000R.
18. Cayman bay() - the map lies on a corpse in the northern part of the island. The valuables are hidden on the site next to the fire on the opposite bank from the ship in Petit Cavern, in the southwestern part of the grotto.
    • Reward: Blueprint - Bay for Special Heavy Cannonballs, 3000R.
19. Pinos Island() - the map lies on a corpse under a fallen column in the temple complex in the northern part of the island. The chest with the treasure is located at the end of the coast in front of the last four palm trees in the northeastern part of Cayman Bay.
    • Reward: 4000R.
20. () - we send ships to complete the task "Empty cellars" in the Eastern colonies of Britain through the captain's cabin. The trade route is unlocked after completing several quests in the Southern Colonies of Britain and Gulf of Mexico. The task completion time is 10 hours. If successful, the flotilla will bring with them a treasure map, which will indicate that the buried treasure is hidden on a sandy shore in the northern part of Cumberland Bay, just above and to the right of the only viewpoint.
    • Reward: 4000R.
21. () - we send ships to complete the "Scarlet fever" mission to Eastern Canada through the captain's cabin. Time to complete the task 16 hours. If successful, the flotilla will bring with them a treasure map, which will indicate the location of a hidden treasure on the south coast of Providencia, buried between the palm trees behind the shipwreck. If you use the vantage point and immediately after fast moving look to the right, then the nearest island, with four palm trees near the water, will be the place you are looking for.
    • Reward: blueprint - a special compartment for incendiary shells, 3000R.
22. () - we send ships to complete the task "Excellent reputation II" in the Mediterranean Sea through the captain's cabin. The time to complete the task is 24 hours. If successful, the flotilla will bring with them a treasure map, which will indicate the location of the hidden treasure in the smugglers' lair in the flooded mines of Anotto Bay; in the same room among the boxes in front of the stairs at the exit, where the treasure map was found.
    • Reward: 4000R.