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Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships Hints
What do I do with the stuff inside the chest?
1 of 3: The bee dial, while gorgeous, doesn't have an obvious use, and in fact you won't find out what it's used for until very late in the game. So just hold onto it for now.
2 of 3: The other thing is a device used by navigators called an astrolabe. It has two uses: translating the rest of El Toro's journal --