SEEK A LOST SHIP'S GOLD.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 6

SEEK A LOST SHIP'S GOLD.

AmarlM.ii Adrantureva on * HaMtdoaa QiMt oa Sew Zealand's r Coajit. -*•• * An American schooner lately arrived in New Zealand with a party who propose to search for long-lost treasure. Ifearlj 40 years hare passed since the ship General Grant left Australia for London with a cargo of gold and wool. At one of the Auckland islands, near New Zealand, she met with a frightful fate. She was sucked into a sort of colossal care, but it is possible she might have got out if a huge wave had not lifted her so high that the masts, striking the roof, were driven through her bottom. Through the openings thus made the water rushed in and she speedily sank. Only one sailor and two children were saved. ' After some months on the island they were picked up by a passing steamer and taken to New Zealand. Several attempts have been made to recover the large quantity of gold that went down in the General Grant, but they were all failures; It remains to be seen,whether the American adventurers will be more successful. If they should recover the gold is it their property? That seems a nice legal

FUb mm Surgeon*. "Along the Caribbean sea," said an artist who has recently returned from those parts, "it is a common thing to see men and women and children sitting on the banks of streams with their bare legs soaking in the water. They have a strange reason; for this strange conduct. They are much troubled by a little inseetr-a kind of tick — which, buries itself in their flesh, and is very hard to di&lodg*; and so, when the ticks have got in them they go to the water, bury the infected parts beneath the surface and keep quite still. The fish have a fondness for ticks, and ih?y hasten to the gleaming Jjuniai; 8« sh they see, and, pulling the ticks out, devour them. In that manner in the Caribs fish are called upon to act as surgeons. Efficient and painless surgeons they make, too." ,

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