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Message In A Bottle
For May's Monthly Scavenger Hunt
"Five ponies and 150 dogs remain. Desire hay, fish and 30 sledges. Must return early in August. Baldwin"
A message sent by explorer Evelyn Baldwin, 1902.
In 16th century England Queen Elizabeth I appointed an official “Uncorker of Ocean Bottles” making it a capital crime for anyone else to open the bottles. This severe punishment was seen as necessary as it assumed that some might contain secret messages from spies as well as from the British fleet who sent messages about enemy positions ashore in bottles.
Message In A Bottle
For May's Monthly Scavenger Hunt
"Five ponies and 150 dogs remain. Desire hay, fish and 30 sledges. Must return early in August. Baldwin"
A message sent by explorer Evelyn Baldwin, 1902.
In 16th century England Queen Elizabeth I appointed an official “Uncorker of Ocean Bottles” making it a capital crime for anyone else to open the bottles. This severe punishment was seen as necessary as it assumed that some might contain secret messages from spies as well as from the British fleet who sent messages about enemy positions ashore in bottles.