Show REAL RE L TREASURE TREAS RE ISLANDS t London Answers There are twentysix islands in the group known as the Faroe islands and i they were first discovered 1100 years 1 ago by a Norse pirate who put sheep upon them Fare is the old Scandinavian word for sheep They are as where Columbus first heard of the ex cx existence existe iste ce of In 1803 a British cruiser captured these islands but in 1814 they were vere w re abandoned as worthless and went back to Denmark Yeb Sudero the southern southernmost southernmost southernmost most of the group which is about thir thirty thirty thirty ty miles long by twelve wide is noth nothing nothing ing but one gigantic mass of coal Big ships can steam stearn right into a land landlocked locked ocke t bay and there fill fiU their bunkers I the seams which crop through the cliffs And by steam this island is I only hours from our south southern ern em ports Is it not enough to make the patriotic tear his hair to think that we gave away this treasure island as worthless The rhe treasure island has always been beena a favorite theme for the writer of fie fib fiction tion tio and without doubt there are in actual fact such things as pirates hordes of gold buried burled in certain island cliffs and beaches Such men as Ad Admiral Admiral miral and Earl Fitzwilliam do donot donot donot not risk money and time as they have done for nothing and there is pretty good g od proof pro f that Keatings treasure of three millions sterling was actually burled buried in Cocos island and that an another another another other huge mass of loot was secreted in Trinidad Whether either will be discovered is quite another matter But there is really no need to go and dig for burled millions when so many of the tens of thousands of islands which strew the oceans are laden with such natural riches like the island of Sudero already mentioned Another in instance instance stance is White island in the Bay of of Plenty New Zealand About three miles in circumference and rising in its center to feet above sea level this island is a mass of minerals principally gypsum and sulphur Of course it is purely volcanic nic and a cloud of steam always hangs over it In the center is isa isa isa a lake of about bout fifty acres in extent which is practically nothing but dilute sulphuric acid There ought to be money in White island Guano to the th value of many man millions has been dug from the Chincha ml islands Islands ands antis small barren sunbaked rocks off the southwest coast of South America and there are islands rich with a sim similar similar ilar lIar deposit and known as Plum Pud Pudding Pudding Pudding ding and Possession islands close to the coast of German Southwest Africa Guano is now running short but there are still a few islands rich in the fer for fertilizing fertilizing material which have not yet been worked at all One was recently discovered about miles mUes southwest of ClIpperton island in the Central Pa Pacific Pacific This low coral atoll is covered with the richest phosphates and has proved a fortune to its discoverers Off the coast of Spanish Honduras are re the five Bay islands The largest of these is a veritable treasure island It has the richest soil and the most extraordinary climate The tem tern temperature temperature never rises above 88 degrees nor no fall below 66 degrees The natives hardly ever ver do any work for there is no need to do more than plant a patch of cocoanuts and cane and sweet po potatoes potatoes potatoes These renew themselves year yearby yearby yearby by year y ar If any anyone one could buy that ml island island and and arid had a little money to develop it he could make malte an immense fortune |