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How can I learn the language of the manatee?
1 of 12: De Cava said Santino learned the language from a scientist on Flotsam Island. That must be De Singe, the loony who hired Morgan to cut your hand off.
2 of 12: But as Morgan says, if you set foot on Flotsam you're history. It's moot in any case, since De Cava isn't moving the ship till he has La Esponja Grande. So you need to go there without going there. Man, that's either philosophy or magic.
3 of 12: Let's go with magic, or rather voodoo. That means the Voodoo Lady. Can we get access to her without leaving the ship?
4 of 12: If you go up on the bridge, you'll see the locket sitting on a barrel. Remember what happened when you first gave it to De Cava? He pushed the little arrow-shaped button between the pictures, and suddenly the Voodoo Lady was talking through him.
5 of 12: If you push the arrow button now, it happens again, but all she says is, essentially, "Don't touch my stuff." There must be a more useful way to manipulate this business.
6 of 12: First off, you need a way to make the transfer happen between you and the Voodoo Lady rather than De Cava.
7 of 12: After the face-off, Morgan tossed your photo away. Did you pick it up? If not, go back down to the manatee and get it.
8 of 12: When you have the photo, use it on the photo of De Cava in the locket to take his place. If you push the button now --
9 of 12: -- the Voodoo Lady will briefly inhabit Guybrush's body and make a few disbelieving comments about how skinny he is. That's not too helpful. What we want to do is reverse the process -- send Guybrush into the Voodoo Lady's body on Flotsam. But how?
10 of 12: Notice that the arrow is pointing from the Voodoo Lady to Guybrush. What would happen if we could turn it the other way?
11 of 12: Did you open the treasure chest on the ocean floor? There's a wrench there.
12 of 12: Use the wrench on the arrow button to turn it to point to the Voodoo Lady, then push the button, Max!
