The Garibaldi Letters were, in fact, a series of communications using exotic methods of transmission. The first in the series came to light when the desiccated body of a seaman was found hidden among rocks on the East Coast of Canada; tattooed on the back of the body was the first "message". The remains of a sealskin wallet found hidden in the sailor's shoe gave his identity. His name was Garibaldi and subsequent "letters" - made up of coded messages in the form of an anagram - gradually came to be known collectively as The Garibaldi Letters". They have long been suspected of concealing a coded message. This is mainly due to the outlandish methods used to deliver the "letters" by the author.