A PIRATE'S TREASURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1915, Page 5

A PIRATE'S TREASURE.

"DEVIL DUVAL'S" HOARD. , .Few.. ~autheivse. jpst-|rea'sure jfto/j?* ,sjtif ] ,thß.,imaginatiQtt more &fti Mt "L>Y,il. pu'vtfa" kom. r M ,i| 91% weU A known,to jiian'y inanj;.. iV ther^..concerning., j?ippded on facfe, cij.rrobOTated DX.Bcfl history and legi?ja;tion.. i| The treasjileUm,4*l st s t% °s-tf; PJWMS W ■ Fabqa'r4. M Ui province,,, facts , are but i Btylp.,klio,wja ty t% pubUq. v , . ~ H ...Captain,. a pfivMeer of the §eyen ; Yews' the .plates. ..j|e tftfe jjn ttfl WM. Pfinihaula,, was tfiEM. »,«&* W, hft.y«fl. bar^.p^esse^.byMßhH? 1 } ™w return to France,. His brig, navißg Deeh destroyed, % by t %e ( whep wpored. in an inkt of the,peninsula, he collected all his caches ijf trea'sp. in ,tlie niaMtiine "prdvincea; AijS broMt.theril to Pel-cei-a Iteig mnU in tile GiM PeHihsoli. fire, not fir. fifom tfie nfcmleV, %&&&» e,Ro|k, 6f .Pe^ce. f «ie;of th'e riatltfal wonders 6f Nortn America.

A SAfE HIDING PLACE; I ', Mei ~a|B, Men Bbjue. £igantic thrije' of nature, aplH t%& coast, this" tait <g\h of rock was pi frbm the tuWMtahi near by, and ,I&t Mndl&i', Wrotrodcd s ty deep slit. Men 1 fiMßrld feet at tys j highest, with a comparatively, flat to£,< its sides p'reclpotß OT&. beetling, pile tj portion of it about* 200 feet higher than.the,,rest. A§,,its,Bes-foot ..it Jsc pierced by t.Tfo, n#ge caverns through) which t'ft? yfjtej;fl swirl %m fc'a'm A p'cr-1 natual unrest, owinf tt> the currents. , I .. ForjcepturiM tt hacLb'e'en th> SeOrfet ■.ne'e of the,Micm# Indians' m*osVs?dret, rites,, ,typW&. DdVatJad f& 4jia ; personal service tiifeiriSffia priest's grandspii, w'hd was,gr&tly attached to Tiii).; TMs, Indian, who kn'ew the 'secret trtrtl,. «*r)e£ a fee 'to 'the toj(> of the Yddfc, and hauled up a Wock atid fall. 80-aits, confining tie £r'#at tre'afurb >to'<sd by. below, & one of iheih web tf o British;' Srisonerß. The "tradiltfn is IBat thbyi were a day *M % Wfittilight night Jn, •getting it all UP- Then tne two cigtives. were hauled %. the ,Jfiaian was lbwerr | ed, and shortly. StfterWaras Duval himself,, came swaying 'down. H& sword.and WKanger wWe Wiping with blood". .With a jmtsket ie sfidt 'at the tackle till it was'cut a,way, t66 ligh tip ia>4 took for anyone $ ■ E^ 4l tben 'ayay. Jut tfte Vel>'el h> tbdlc idr tfraitcß' sank witli Till oti T}6aT<l her in a heavy >, gale off the west coast of Newfoundland. ■ ,- ' , So maw lives were lost in utterrfpts, Ito'sca}s the "retrieve ,the.trea-> sure that a law wis passed forniddiin'g, the wSinpt without a -permit ft6m ■the Governor of the-|>roVmce. of .Qfte.-, 1 bee This 'law ytet staMs & Witness jto llfoe'&chVstbiea" away I>y "Devil T)6 q ffit^'Ss ) r some day, a daring, aviator, will see tiie t\vo prtsdners' ¥caßp (rp the treasure on the summit, 'of *ftie'Rock'6f "Perce.