HIDDEN TREASURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1028, 10 August 1911, Page 4

HIDDEN TREASURE.

ENGLISH PARTY’S NARROW ESCAPE. Saved from death on Cocos Island, 300 miles off the Central American coast, by the timely arrival of the California Atlantic Steamship Company’s steamer Navajo, the mysterious party of English treasure hunters, who left San Francisco more than two months ago, are now en route to England. The party consisted of three men and two women, and they were taken to Cocos Island by another steamer of the same company, alter having made arrangements in San Francisco for the Navajo to call for them. Never was the arrival of a steamer more timely, for the goldhunters had abandoned their search for the 50,000,000 dollars, alleged to have been buried on the island by pirates many years ago, and were struggling to keep alive until succour arrived. The island is so barren they could scarcely find sustenance after their food supply was exhausted. Moreover, the island is the home of hundreds of wild and savage dogs, offspring of animals left there by other explorers, and these were a constant menace to the party. Officers of the Navajo, who brought to Los Angeles a story of the sufferings of the party, said that while the searchers claimed to have charts indicating the location of the buried gold, they found nothing but the skeletons of three men, believed to have perished in a vain attempt to find the cache of the Spanish pirates.