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Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships Hints

What can I do in the caves?

  • 1 of 4: Once you've gotten the bat seeker working --
  • 2 of 4: -- you can use it here to find out what kind of bats live in each of the five caves.
  • 3 of 4: Why do you care? You'll know better once you've translated all of El Toro's journal.
  • 4 of 4: El Toro mentions that he and his men used one of the caves as a safe haven. Everything he talks about in his journal is important, so we need to try to find that specific cave.