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He pointed at the sea. "Or we'll be meat for those evil brutes!"

The rowboat tossed from side to side. The waves were huge. Salty spray stung Jack's eyes. He felt seasick.

Dark fins cut through the water. Sharks. One zoomed right by the boat. Jack could have reached out and touched it.

The air was filled with wild fiddle music and bagpipes playing. And Jack heard jeers, shouts, and ugly laughter.

Soon the rowboat pulled alongside the ship.

He shuddered.

The ship creaked and moaned. It rolled from side to side. Ropes flapped and snapped in the wild wind.

A couple of pirates grabbed Jack and Annie. And threw them in the ship's cabin. Then locked the door.

Everywhere they looked, Jack and Annie saw pirates.

"Hold 'er steady!" shouted Cap'n Bones.

Annie and Jack were hauled onto the deck.

"Hoist 'em aboard!" Cap'n Bones shouted to his men.

"Lock 'em in my cabin!" Cap'n Bones ordered.

Some were dancing. Some were drinking. Many were fighting. With swords. Or with their fists.

"We better examine the book," he said.

The air inside the cabin was damp and sour-smelling. A shaft of gray light came through a small round window.

"Captain Kidd!" said Jack.

He found a picture of pirates burying a treasure chest. "This might help."

He flipped through the pages.

Jack took out his notebook and pencil. He wrote: Captain Kidd's treasure on island.

Together they read the words under the picture: Captain Kidd was a famous pirate. It is said that he buried a treasure chest on a deserted island. The chest was filled with gold and jewels.

He reached into his pack and pulled out the pirate book.

"Right." Jack suddenly felt tired. How would they ever get out of this mess?

He looked for information to help them.

"Oh man," said Jack. "We've got to figure out how to get back to the island."

"So we can get into the tree house and go home," said Annie.

"So that's the kid that Bones keeps talking about," said Annie.

"Right," said Jack.

"Look," he said.

Annie looked out the round window. "And Captain Kidd's treasure is buried somewhere on the island," she said.

"Shhh, wait a minute," he said. "I'm thinking."

"Yep." A big black rock looked like the eye of the whale.

"Neat," he said. Then he looked up. "A whale? Did you say… a whale?"

"What?" Jack asked. He looked back at the book.

"Oh man," whispered Jack. Now he could see it.

Jack jumped up and looked out the window with her.

"See the whale's back?" said Annie.

"Ja-ack," Annie said.

"There!" said Annie.

"A whale. A huge whale. As big as a football field."

"See his spout?" said Annie.

"A whale."

"There! The island is shaped like a giant whale!"

"Guess what I see?" said Annie.

"Where?" Jack asked. All he could see was the island. And stormy waves. And shark fins.

"Yep." The slope of the island looked like the back of a whale.

"See his eye?" said Annie.

"The gold doth lie beneath the whale's eye," whispered Jack. "Wow."

"Where? Where?"

"Yep." The palm tree that held the tree house looked like the spout of the whale.