he takes it on board ship, sees the message that is all in cyprus, and symbols, and so he decides not to do it. takes the document, goes to the governors of rhode island, who then sends him up to a american general green, who, being a merchant, knows it is a coded message. the american put two teams to decipher the message and they both, using frequency analysis, in other words, which letters appear the most common, you then back it out that the most common letter and in which is the letter e. so you would start with figuring out what appears the most time, and that is the letter e. and you work down from there. they come up with exact same translation. both of them. and that's the code that they wrote down that he had used. now the difference between a cipher and a coat, everybody has a tendency to misuse the terms. a cipher is when a character or letter represents another character or letter. in other words, eight is equal to one, or dealt using a symbol. is equal to the letter k. or something similar. the code is when a character represents an entire word. usually you're going to n