                          Plaintiff - Appellant,

          versus


ANTHONY J. PRINCIPI, Secretary of Department
of Veterans Affairs; JAMES D. SHELTON,
Supervisor; TED IRBY, Team Coach; JERRY
IRELAND, HRM; TANYA B. BURTON, Staff Attorney;
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS,

                                            Defendants - Appellees.


Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Durham. William L. Osteen, Senior
District Judge.own. Cartographer Jodocus Hondius included El Dorado in his 1598 map of South America, as did Dutch publisher Theodore de Bry. The city remained on maps of South America until as late as 1808 and spawned numerous unsuccessful hunts for the city.

Treasure maps in fiction
Treasure maps have taken on numerous permutations in literature and film, such as the stereotypical tattered chart with an "X" marking the spot, first made popular by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island (1883), a cryptic puzzle (in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold-Bug" (1843)), or a tattoo leading to a dry-land paradise as seen in the film Waterworld (1995).

Literature
The treasure map may serve several purposes as a plot device in works of fiction:

 Motivation, causing the characters to begin a quest.
 Plot exposition, explaining