diff --git a/port_joseph/pirates/madvillage b/port_joseph/pirates/madvillage
index cd5daa420..5bb4610f9 100644
--- a/port_joseph/pirates/madvillage
+++ b/port_joseph/pirates/madvillage
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ enter_x 13
 enter_y 8
 msg
 Created:  1994-06-05 langley (langley@fermat.dartmouth.edu)
-Modified: 2008-09-21 Rick Tanner
+Modified: 2011-11-23 Rick Tanner
 endmsg
 end
 arch invis_exit
diff --git a/port_joseph/pirates/mbgrave b/port_joseph/pirates/mbgrave
index 7121d80f3..c91e3b169 100644
--- a/port_joseph/pirates/mbgrave
+++ b/port_joseph/pirates/mbgrave
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ enter_x 4
 enter_y 10
 msg
 Created:  1994-05-31 langley (langley@fermat.dartmouth.edu)
-Modified: 2008-10-25 Rick Tanner
+Modified: 2011-11-23 Rick Tanner
 endmsg
 end
 arch dungeon_floor
@@ -677,10 +677,7 @@ y 3
 end
 arch gravestone
 msg
-Let it be known
-let it be said,
-Moogly bill ain't alive
-he's dead
+Let it be known, let it be said, Moogly Bill ain't alive.. he's dead.
 endmsg
 x 7
 y 3
@@ -907,9 +904,7 @@ y 3
 end
 arch gravestone
 msg
-Moogly bill
-was ill
-left no will
+Moogly Bill was ill, left no will.
 endmsg
 x 9
 y 3
@@ -1772,9 +1767,7 @@ y 10
 end
 arch note
 msg
-. . . take the . . . three sto es
-place upon    t re  al ars . . .
-th.n the g t   will open .
+. . . take the . . . three sto es place upon    t re  al ars . . . th.n the g t   will open.
 endmsg
 x 18
 y 10