SUNKEN TREASURE SHIP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 1 October 1909, Page 10

SUNKEN TREASURE SHIP.

.OpiraMoris being carried on ' at p Cove,,.m Mount's Ijay, to .recover .treasure ot an ancient.wreck;were suspended some ,stated that tho : attempt will shortly, be resumed,- and .that' the' members of tho ,syndicato c.qncerned..are .determined not to abandon the t guest, until .they i ljave found .the treasure, ..or satisfied thcinsdlves that there is none tp.nnif. It was in the year. .1528 that'the St. Andrew, a,treasure ship .belonging to. the King of PortuP''^. as -""Ten out. of hor courso from Flanders £ or t u S al and it what.ig now Knowri : as Dollar Cove. An; ancient .document written ; by one ..brands ,• Po'rson, 'an./ Englishman on board the doomed-ship, who.acted as the factor of the King of Portugal, states' that "by the i grace and'mercy of Godi the greater part of the crew got safely on land," and that, assisted by some of the .inhabitants,. thoy saved a ; large portion of the-cargo also. The lfsfc of what thoy saved includes 8000 : cake'sof in .cash,- eighteen blocks pf silver ouflion, .silver -vessels and platq, precious, stones, brooches aria chains of gold,_clot]i of.arras, tapestry, satins, •velvets, and four .'sets. of armour for the King of» Portugal." This .was carried .up. tho cliffs and' laid, on the-grass ,at ; tho top,, ahd, according to tho statcmerit'of Porspri, wnen the . work wds completed,- throe local, sqxiires, with about sixty armed' retainer?, assaulted . the sKipwr.ecked men, arid-carried,.off all the.treasure..- : - Kvidently tho. treasure seekers do not rely upon this document, but prefer-.the statement of one of tho squires: (a St. Aubyn) that they rode to tHo place to give what help they could, that saved, the best of! the-crew, but thafr'the cargo of treasure they could not savo. t Three' attempts have 'already been made to discover the treasure. This is tho first time, however, that diving and sand : pumping have been tried. >. \