Show SUNKEN TREASURE SHIPS AND WHERE poet wrote moro and accurately than hi lu THE knew when he declared full I a grill gem of purest raj The d darle nut rani of 01 ocean l war wart r t There arc millions In It tho t k Tho only difficult thing thin about tho prop proposition la 13 to locate those millions and Reins gem They Tilt are arc there thero have been there thero for or generations some of or them for or orf f hundreds of ot years To fa bring them to the tight light of at day Is n problem that many minds in the past and In modern times timeshare I hare tried hard to solve It was only the other day In tact fact that theio was vas reported the locating In Long Iong Island sound of a wreck that had remained undiscovered for tor moro mora than Bitty years On the night of tho of January 1810 to bo exact the steamer Lexington was burned and sank with n loss lo s of It lives carrying down with her moro than In United States currency tank bank notes and nil specie For nearly two generations I she lay there but when on the tho anniversary of her sink sinkIng sinkIng Ing nn account was wils published of the tho dis disaster aster c ler tho attention of a u wrecking com company pany was drawn to nho tact fact and a search Instituted with the tho result that there Is now a 0 probability that the old Lexington may muy bo be raised and at lInt least a portion of at her sunken treasure recovered ered The Tho treasure that the Lexington Car Carried nr ried down own to enrich old ohl Davy Jones Jonos locker Is no isolated Instance It may seem needless to remark for when the records of disasters by sea of at piracy and buccaneering are ransacked It Is discovered that the tho list of at sunken ships containing valuable cargoes Is a 11 re remarkably long ono one Enough treasure trove In point of fact lies flIes around loose on land and burled In the son sen to enrich nearly all tho Inhabitants of tho United l States It should not be bo over overlooked looked In passing that In tho vaults aults of the th British treasury there la hidden away a some fay mOro than nt nil all events by records awaiting owners not claimants only for their name Is legion Again Maln the pirates and buccaneers who at one onetime time tested Infested In our coasts havo hao tho name I of or having concealed millions In treas trens treasure ure of ot various sorts and It may runy bo be to IC marked In this connection that there have hava been more seekers for tor It by tar far titan there thero were pirates originally One of ot the most prominent of at those gentle gentlemen men of the sea who round found It more con can convenient to take ly force what they want wanted ed than to earn It honestly was the re renowned reo Captain mild Indeed he ho In If to many thu typical pirate because tho most frequently held up to reprobation though there are somo who declare that he died n victim to malice was as In Innocent of the crimes Imputed to fa him that may be Captain made the tho mistake ml of operating too bold boldly i ly Iy and too near our coast and was IM cut oft of In the t of or a n most mOlit ca career career reer After Arter cruising In various call Heas he returned to the vicinity I of New York an l burled a portion of ot his hard earned wealth on Gardiners Island near the cast of at Long Island This Is III known because b after atter his arrest which soon followed the treasure was lug dug up found to consist of ot bags of gold oM dust gold coins silver buttons and lamps gold bars barr broken silver crystals cry cor antI and precious stones to the value of more The chest chet contain containing ing In this treasure was waR found and contents were confiscated But this was not nil all of at KIdds wealth for tor a n portion of It was probably concealed In Santo Do Domingo mingo and still lUll another In III Delaware 1 bay It Is this portion I THEY MAY BE FOUND presumably vastly greater grenter than that which was wan found that has been the tho ob object object of or search for the tho past 20 years KIdds career terminated exactly years ago o o for tor tie be was hung In England In May tay 1701 but lift hn soon hall had a rival in tn tho person of the notorious Edward dward Teach fench Jotter better known to history as liS the Pirate and whoso op operations extended from the tho West Indies to tho Carolina const During tho tha last quarter of o the seventeenth cen century tury tur and the flint quarter of o tho thu eight couth the rovers of at the sea sen were In III their glory Jut but of them nil there was none so famous as liS the tho dreaded Black Blackboard board His JIU headquarter were wera In the tho West Indies Indle notably In the tho Danish Is Island land of oC Ht at Thomas where his hili castle Is pointed out today on ono one of tho three hills upon which tho town of at Charlotte Charlotto Is built buIll After making many a 1 good man walk tho plank In Car Caribbean waters committing terrible atrocities came north and made his rendezvous In sound I He Ho exacted tribute tram from tho city elt of Charleston Charle ton he ho ravaged the const coast towns In every overy direction murdering and plundering dering and became such uch u n terror to Ame commerce that the tho colonial government took a n hand In his hili extinction tion Bravo Lieutenant sought him out In tn the armed ormed sloop Pearl ono day Ila In November 1718 found him at lit his hili rendezvous In III the tho sound and engaged him forthwith The contest was one of ot tho bloodiest on record reeo The pirates first swept the sloops deck with witha a 11 cannon fire that killed more than twenty men then boarded It Il en engaged the enemy hand halll to hand The principal contest was between Black Blackbeard beard and Lieutenant Maynard and was WM long lon bloody but bul terminated In victory for tor the gallant who soon calling Into port with the pi pl pirates rates head at the end of ot his bowsprit treasure la Is supposed to bo burled all 1111 along the hc coast of ot North Car Carolina olina tho governor of which state It was shown hown at tho trial of o the tho surviving pirates was fn n collusion with him The Thc coast country Is lit full tull of ot traditions of at and anI ho has haa been the buga bUJa bugaboo boo 1100 of naughty children for these many years At the mouth of ot Symon creek near the one onu story goes a great Iron bound b und chest could be seen n 1 century ago burled burl ell In the sands hut but all endeavors to recover It frustrated by the tho elements clements the sea rising thunder rolling roiling and nIl lightning flashing each time treasure seekers the place where the chest lay IllY Then there was Ia 11 l I whose scene of ot the tho gulf of Mexico and hU hl nominal headquarters headquarter at New Orleans He lie and his crews did valiant for lor the tho American army under General Jackson but previously tradition relates they had ravaged ninny a bit of ot coast and hidden away millions lu III treasure Some of It has hns been according to accounts as well as IS the th III gotten gains of such river pirates as 1111 McCabe and Mason whoso whose last feat fent the murder of ot a n paymaster of the tho United States I army anti and his hili men at the sumo sarno time and tho currying oft off of In an enumeration of at the locations where piratical other treasure ii b concealed it will be lef lesl to mention than to find space for tor them all 1111 for traditions point to scores of ot Islands headlands all the Wit way tram from the bay of oC Kundy Iundy to tha th gulf gult of Mexico There has been a 1 persistent hunt for Cor years for Captain and other have more than on board at i tho time but an all investigation by James II Lowell when minister to Eng England land disclosed ell the filet fact that according to the admiralty records she had lIal II brought over to New York only and oven that amount had hd been landed before she aho sank Yet thero have been en numerous attempts to recover tho treasure she was supposed to contain costing In the aggregate it is estimated ed more than Hut But If we would find the richest de lie depository of oC treasure wo must go goto to tho th West Indies search scorch tho coral corn I floor of ot the tho Caribbean sea It Il there that the tho Spaniards held almost exclusive sive sway during tho tin e tha tho mines of at Mexico the tho West WeRt Indies South America were In the heyday leda of oC their fortunes Grand old decker galleons capable of carrying enormous cargoes were continually traversing the Caribbean Balling from Vera Vern Cruz the tho isthmus of Panama and Santo Domingo for tor Cadiz and ana Seville In Spain laden treasures trea ures nt Oak on the coast of Nova Scotia n pit JIlt having been sunk more than feet teet In depth by one Indi Individual vidual anil It Is well known that Sable Island is a veritable treasure house of at wealth as well as ns a graveyard gr of at noble ships One of tho false fAlso lends leads to conjectural treasure was wall that of ot the unken British tho which went down In Hell Gate In 1777 1717 It was supposed to toft ft ft ft almost to the tho gunwales with gold and sliver silver ores and sometimes with rich stores of gems The Philippine fleet also by landing Its cargoes nt at Acapulco co on the Pacific const of at Mexico them at lit Vera Cruz fol followed followell lowell lowed this route to Spain after the way Wa was opened by b the tho Spaniards For years year and years ears these richly freighted sailed to the tho mother country with their millions In silver and gold bringing back tho products of Spain I and recruits for the tho colonies I however Will was not to have this i rich all to herself for Cor the Dutch I French and aud English soon SOOIl began to In Inquire quirt quire what there was in It for or them and to sent emphasize their Inquiry I out privateers to cruise tho Caribbean waters They took many valuable prizes despite the protests of at Spain find after atter them earn camo their 1111 teel who SOOIl degenerated into freebooters and buccaneers On the north const of Halt U a n small Island known as Tortuga which In tho seventeenth century made the tho of ot tho buccaneers comprising men of various nationalities but chief chiefly ly Iy French ond Dutch who hall had been driven from their homes In the south southern s uth ern and hall had taken to piracy In revenge They committed many atrocities not only anI upon the tho crown of ot the tho Spanish whips but upon the Inhabitants of at settlements in the West Indies und nd on the Spanish main Between the I I i i 0 UI I NOI O N t ol HIS J I depredations depredation of the tho buccaneers and oth others ers Spain lost many millions null and with without without out their aid she always reckoned the average annual loss at tram from hurricanes alone alono The buccaneers sacked Racked such cities as ns asSanto Santo Domingo Cartagena Colon and Porto Hello Della and harried the Spanish fleet neet so that very tow few of ot the treasure ships ever made their voyages Unscathed The typical buccaneer la Is found In the person of ot Henry Morgan n I Welshman Welsh mall who went to the West Indies when young fell In with the buccaneers of Tortuga and finally became chief vII vil villain lain of ot them all lie He committed atro atrocious cious clous on the Spanish main Racking cities and putting their inhabitants to torture the sword To fa Toward ward the th end of his hlA career of crime he lauded on the Isthmus marched overland upon the then wealthy city of ot Panama This Thill city he robbed of nil ltd It II treasures to the It h Is estimated ed eJ of pf and compelling several hundred prisoners to accompany him himon on ou his return journey marched back across the tho Isthmus to the ho Caribbean side Ho lie capped capp tho climax of his atrocities by hy massacring his prisoner and finally after killing many of at hid III own men lie be for lor the tho island of ot Santa n hundred miles cast of ot the Mosquito Mo coast and not far from reef where tho Kear Kearsarge sarge IJ sunk n few tew years ago no There I I It is sold said ho lie burled the bulk of oC his hi treasure trea after which ho murdered all allor allor or nearly till II of ot tho men who know of its 1111 location and sailed for Jamaica He Ite was called to account by tho government for his hlo many crimes but with his hi vast wealth not lIot only purchased ed ell exemption but a I title from that dill reputable monarch Charles II n now no lives In history ns as Sir SI Henry Mar Mor Morgan Margan gan nt It cine Ille governor of ot Jamaica It was not like Sir Henry Henty Morgan to leave portion of ot his hili ill gotten mil millions millions lions on the Island where ho burled It H but during durin the Fast twenty years or sp SQ the tho stories of o Its its continued there have hae expeditions havo hao been Jeen made with a II to recover U It So far ns ny known nil all havo been heen but a cave reached rachell only by submarine passage hns been beun found Cound in which 1 traces trICI of occupancy and of ot concealed plunder of some tort ort That Santa Sant and Tortuga contain burled treasure in vast vust amounts is undoubtedly true and as neither Is very cry largo It would scorn an easy thing to discover It But the former Is to violent hurri hurricanes canes and the currents surrounding it are arc while Tortuga Is own oln owned ed by the tho Haitians who jealously resent any intrusion of for foreigners eigners cl specially especially of ot white people antI and will neither explore for or them elves nor permit any all one else to do so Pirates buccaneers concealed their plunder plumer all alone tho coasts coast of or tho Caribbean not only on tho Spanish main but In many Islands antI and Indica Indications of at burled gold GoM euro are constantly com coin coining comIng ing to light especially in the Danish Is Islands lands of St t Thomas and St John In III the tho Pearl islands off orr Venezuela In Porto PortoRico Rico Cuba and Santo Domingo So 80 far as sunken galleons filled with gold gohl and silver are ara concerned the tho Is Island land of Cuba Is almost girdled with them In III the year 1675 a II great treasure galleon was sunk northwesterly terly from Key West In 1717 Spanish galleons with In bullion aboard were wro Bunk In the tho channel between Florida and Cuba in 1650 moro than fifteen tons of ot sliver silver were thrown off tho wast coast of ot Cuba nil all around 1 the tha IMo of at Pines are sunken wrecks of at galleons containing at nt the time they were lost from to each ench Twelve tons of sliver were being car carried ried an no ballast from the mines of to Spain when one OM stormy night tho galleon was wal captured by buccaneers Who ho threw overboard the crew cre and also tho silver liver bars which they took for tor some somo baser metal This was lu 1679 or years ears before Sir William tho New England Yankee re rc recovered covered OilS ons of ot silver liller and a largo large fortune In gems train from n sunken galleon off the north const coast of ot Santo Do Domingo mingo o And nd he found but one of oC u LL of ot five or six Fix Ill all of at which carried down dOln In a hurricane On tho south coast of or the same Is Island land In a n locality over writer of at this article has hall himself sailed lies the galleon In which Governor Governur 1 la IlL took B for tor Spain In the year 11 1502 02 and a which sank In n hurricane with nil all on Oil board while containing In Its treasure tank the tha largest nugget of ot gold ever round found In America I If l tho Inquiry were to bo extended to the Pacific const coast It would bo found I only on losi rich the Caribbean In sunken treasure ships for tOI nil 1111 the tho way from Chile to Alaska especially off orr Mexico California vessels have havo gone One down with wealth untold A |