That night talk was long and sleep short, and work was on again at sunrise.

In three days they took up thirty-two tons of bullion.

In the afternoon of the third day the store-room was cleared, and then they searched the hold.

Here they found, cunningly distributed among the ballast, a great many bags of pieces-of-eight.

These, having lain in the water so long, were crusted with a strong substance, which they had to break with iron bars.
It was reserved for Phips himself to make the grand discovery.