What conclusions can you draw from the contents of the captain's sea chest? in chapter 4

The Captains chest had what one might expect a Pirate to keep. The Captain had the usual trappings of a pirate's life. They found,

"the smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They had never been worn, my mother said. Under that, the miscellany began — a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells."

These are the standard items and smells that belong to pirates at sea. It wasn't until they looked deeper into the chest that they found the items of interest,

"My mother pulled it up with impatience, and there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a bundle tied up in oilcloth, and looking like papers, and a canvas bag that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of gold."