“Bet me,” Tyler replied. “What?”
Taking a deep breath, Bart led them to his find. It was a pile of weather-beaten shards of bone, some tiny, others large enough to make out that they had probably been parts of a leg or a broken rib cage. Many of the bigger ones looked as if they’d been gnawed on from the grooves in them.
“Do you suppose these belonged to some of the pirates?” Dave asked, moving a bit closer.
“Are they human?” Pete asked at the same time.
“Who knows?” Tyler replied.
“They probably don’t belong to any pirate,” Jake said. “That would mean they were over two-hundred years old. I doubt they’d have survived that long.”
“They could belong to animals, but who killed them and left the carcasses here,” Neil said. “Other animals?”
Jake shook his head. “More likely someone like
