CAPTAIN HOOK’S TREASURE

George Manadis

On a hot day in August, while my friends and I were diving underwater with an aqualung, we saw a bottle with a message in it. I took the bottle and quickly opened it, and took the message which said "Help ! You will find me on the island of AFRAID. My friends and I decided to carry on diving and go for help the next day.

When we returned back to our tent we saw it was in a terrible mess, however none of our luggage was missing. The only thing that was missing was the message and the bottle. Why had the man or woman who had done this wanted the message so badly? That was a difficult question, and we left the answer until the next day.

The following day we got up quickly and went to the library. When we got inside we asked the receptionist where we could find information about the island of AFRAID. he showed us a small book and lots of old newspapers. On the first page of a newspaper there was, in big letters, "Captain Hook and his lost treasure." Now we realised why somebody wanted the message.

We hired a boat and went quickly to the island. Nobody was on the island, so we started looking for the treasure, but we couldn’t find it. After an hour we all went back to our boat, but one of my friends didn’t appear, so we started calling him. A minute later we saw him running towards us. He was coming to the boat. While he was running he slipped on a piece of wood. But it wasn’t a piece of wood. It was lever. I pushed it and we found a box full of jewels. The next day all the newspapers had our photos and our names. We were very happy.

George Manadis is a fourteen year old student at the Fourth Gymnasium in Katerini. He is interested in military history – he helped with the article on the Battle of Pydna – and in addition to enjoying the usual sports is also a keen computer games player. He is currently studying for the Cambridge FCE in May.