REAL TREASURE ISLANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 40, 6 February 1908, Page 4

REAL TREASURE ISLANDS.

i;u;ikj) TitKAsri!Ks which jiavk l A KAJiTIIKJ). A little sailing yawl wanned by three moil jiut into Aew Vnik liarliom the other day, after ail adventurous of 12!) days from Liverpool, during which time she, lv.ul i-ovcred mi'v -even tliou>and miles. The aim of her crew in »ci'k for a treasure Imried lony ago liy pirates oil ail Hand near the eoasi of Hondiira-. Treasure limits are cuntiiuinlly fjoinj; on in the \\ e>t lndiei- and the Spanish .Main, Inn the hidden hoirdare nut often lironjjlil to None tile lo— (writes a «lnlic-ti-otliii;< run tribuior) I heard of a lew ca-cs during live years s|K'iit in the larilioccs.

Kmanuel the skipper <u' j, (irand Cayman turtling -ehooner. had an extraordinary stroke 01 lu-k alxmt >i\ .Vl'iUS agO. lie had brought hi- littbalongside a banpie which had >1 r;ion a coral re.l inur .lamin-i ami been abandoned. ami was what he could find of value i'r- m th«-wre<-k. booking over th-< >ide ii- .- ;\v a \ellow gleam (in a sliflvinu ro-k -over.il feet beneath iln* t-lew n,r;i:.

Thinking it wa* a jiiet-e of < i;j>•. ( r -heathing, h-> dived fur i:. and came nj* with his hands full u; gold coin.-. The\ \von< Spanish doubloon- and y\of eight ot Ihe seventeenth .eium v. Tlc-re were hundreds of thm r.u the -ai;!;cn roof. as well a- -Dine pis l "; -of «v:V-k.i'4;-

that apparently had brloiiged to -juuc ancient Sjjanis'h boat. All day lon- tin* skipper ami hi- men dived for ill' eobv. and they sold the lot to a merchant iu Port J'oyal Street. Kin-Moii. for c!o.e on CliOlt. I \v,h there wh'-n I lie was made, and examined .-ever.il i f the coins, wliich were in an e\; i-'lciit -t of |<re<-ervation. How came they to !.;> In-; in »:»• . Strang-.- manner': There are manv iheo lies, hut probably they were cained 100-r in ih:« boat w hell it wa> c ijsi/.eil. Ibere were no >!'.e!->t«*ii-< i»v ihe boat. >!) it nnift be -u\-\,—v.] the were picked Up. When I wa- -tayiiej Nas.a. in I:»<rt. a - told b> i w:. si<hermen. who cam.- to the : •v n Mm.: cii"

of the i-!ainU near by. Tj.ry -aid Ih.ii ;:n American white man :-ame ashore : > their tish'iig hut from a -.mail \a-ii:. and engaged them to ro\* him to ;:n->ih -! i-hiud several mib's of]'. '1 hey rowed .iii night, and in the inornin-.' lande !. lie tinide them dig at ;i - pot ji.-- point--.! o::\ after eon-nltiuL' an <dd p> r -hiiir. ,-ii l he watched over them <:<-ejy. with .1 Winchester ritb- in hi- htrd. At l:i-t they unearthed a small, but very hejiy. iron-bound ehc-t. with wlu-di they ro-v.i away 10 the yacht. A- -o,>n it wa-li!)i->led aboard '.ho v. departed.

Thi- florv could ii.irdlv haw b cu insent rd by the tishermon. \»y the Ameri can ai)-l hi- yacht had been at Na—au only a few daysTiefore. and iie had mad" many impiirie.s about the i-iami- in th«* vicinity. What did he find iu the che-i "r Xobody in .Nassau doubt- ihiit it was Captain Ixidd's fainou- hoard, -aid io have l»een hidden thereabouts. The aborlive revolution in llayii, le.l by (Jencral Finnin and Admiral Killiek. wa- largely linanced by an old French treasure found by the latter in a ruined chateau on the island of had been buried there in ihe d;iv< when the IJaytian natives iheir French masters. The find was not a lucky one for Killiek. lie prri-hed. al'iej- his

eau-e was lor»t. in the de-trn<tion of the cruiser Crete-a-Piem.i a- a pirate by the <»erman gunl»oat I'anl her.

Cencriil Miltos. uho w,i- iln- re-lnM merelialit ].rinr<' in Venezuela 11 illil InlOS| lllllC'll (|f )l J- lIIIIMCV i|| \;|i|| eN'ort- J,, overthrow I'rctddent ('a-tro. lit toil Minn <'N|M'ililion ill IS'.IS to ihe Me of Marirherita. oil' till' Venezuelan imJ. and found an 01.l pirate wliii-li is Slid In have reali-ed over iM'UiUo. Matos told me hlni-clf that hi- -hare f'iiniG (O t'22.'lf)ll. lifter |i:i yillo eNprHr-r ■ and pivinjt tln- Venezuelan Cover ml its share.