SUNKEN TREASURE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 6

SUNKEN TREASURE.

;■• : \ SIR; El-' SHACKLETON'S.'NEW: s M: :,:' /■./■-. ■■ ]} ! - :.' ENpEPRISES;';"v^;V :^: .•..Awaiting the .conclusion of ,the'hew': eni : terpri'se of ,his old"leader... nnd ; . friend," Captain, Scott,' "before . ! .makirig:V' further effort to' reach ;the ; ; South ;Pole, Sir Ernest. Shackleton has, a novel' enterprise,: on' hand; Some time "ago ,he~. heard." of¥a: :strange discovery, made on a rarely-visited island .in the 'South ".Pacific. ■ The:-boat's crow; of, a passing, ship on landing found in shallow water, groups 'of strange monoliths, : on which .wore outlined the face and, figure of.'.men. , A necessarily, hasty and superficial; search suggested'the.'pre"-serice!-of sunken, treasure, once 'the'i.proper.tj" of. an extinct race. • This-sounds; like the beginning .of one of. R.: LKSteven-' son's romances.. Sir Ernest'- has• convinced himself there', is i something in'.i'the .story; Conviction has carried'. him' the length of charteriiig a ship,' and-:engaging' officers and .crew, t o ,repai:■■ to the'- island;■;and .hunt -.'for. treasure.' . Ho \came..up;', from, his, Somerset homo:recently. :to.;intervie\r : his captain, uhd gave,final instructions' for a. voyige., • ■ : ., - ■';.':■,:.'--_[■>:>'.-:-;■•■'.