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Show SHIFT IN SEARCH FOR PIRATE GOLD Ancient Map and Letter Indicate In-dicate New Island. New Orleans, La. The century old quest for burled pirate gold Hround the mouth of the Mississippi river will shift to Cat island, just off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Me: Ico, as the result of recent discoveries by two engineers. Search for the pirate booty of the earli part of the Nineteenth cen tury previously had centered about Urand Isle, 10 miles to the east of Bayou Ln Fourche. Cat Island, which Is not indicated by any modern mod-ern map. Is 15 miles to the west of the bayou. New light was shed on the pirates when Frank C Waddill. New Orleans Or-leans engineer and member of the Louisiana Historical society, found an old map Idle doing some re search work In a New Iberia law suit The map indicated Cat Island as the "position of the pirates." On its face also was written, near Grand Isle, "the former position of the pirates." Waddill's discovery was substan tlated by unother made by Walter Y. Kemper. Franklin, La , engineer, who worked- with Waddill on the New Iberia case. Kemper, while in the United Stales land oflice In Washington, discovered a letter dated March 17. ISM. written to u Louisiana, landowner by an em ployee of the land ollUe. I "I had contemplated the Imuiedi ; ate survpy of valuable public lands and Islands of the west coast from the Misslsslpi." the better read "but unsafe because of an overgrown over-grown piratical banditti. They have fortified themselves on one of the Islands and suffer none to approach ap-proach them. "The party of pirates amount to upwards of GOO men They are for tilled on Cat island nnd have tive or I six armed vessels earrjliiK 12 to 14 I (Pins aed no to !Mi men oooh." |