The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1911. HIDDEN TREASURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 109, 29 June 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, J UNE 29, 1911. HIDDEN TREASURE.

-Someone has assorted, and with a great deal of truth, that if gold were discovered at the South Role, that region would no longer remain terra, incognita, for no matter wiiat the dangers and difficulties may be, men oi all nationalities will brave them in order to handle, or even obtain a glimpse of, the yellow metal. Hidden treasure —whether in its virgin state, or buried for sale-keeping by the rightful owners or pirates, or lost by shipwreck—lias had a powerful attraction for men in all ages, and in tliis twentieth century tnc inhabitants of the earth, with the up-to-date appliances at their disposal for the recovery of wealth beneath the sea or upon hind, are more than keeping up the reputation of their ancestors in tliis direction. Even Mark Twain was smitten with the hidden treasure fever, and the result of the undertaking is graphically described in one of that author’s masterpieces— 1 ‘The Adventures ox ’iom Sawyer. Neu ers arc none the loss keen in quest of treasure, and whether it be beneath the waves or in some almost/ inaccessible place upon land, they arc always ready to make the effort to win it. I no wreck of the Eliagamito affords one instance of the peculiar attractions ol troasurc-ininting. Many lives have been ruthlessly taken for gold; and many more have been offered up as sacrifices in the struggle to become wealthy. There is no limit to the avarice of an undue proportion of the human race when gold is in question. The other day a cable message stated that buried treasure worth lire millions had been found on an island oil Honduras, which may bo the end ol a long and rather tragic scries ol expeditions. The story of the treasure is that in 1835 a British harquentmo anchored one night under a Peruvian fort near Callao. The garrison, afraid lest their great treasure should fall into the hands of tbo Chilian besiegers, placed it under the British Hag. The cantain and crew proved ialse to their trust, and Hod with the treasure, which, for some reason or other, they lurried on the lonely island ol Cocos, off tho coast of Honduras. Many attempts have been made to find this treasure, and all the explorers claimed to 1)0' guided by charts and bloodscrawled directions dear to writers ol romance. Two expeditions have been looking for the treasure recently, and a Gorman bus- been living by himself on the island for sixteen years, grubbing lor the treasure. One of those parties, is headed by two women connected with the British Seamen’s Guild, and one of the men of the parly is Mr. A. E. Mackintosh, who was a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition. Tliis party has been working with a chart which was. obtained from a dying sailor who had I>eoii cared for by the Guild, and the treasure is to go to ihe Guild. The treasure may have been found by Captain Market!, who was not long ago preparing for a, third attempt, nr perhaps the solitary German has succeeded where numbers and organisation failed.