| Show i all the world nothing stirs the d or excites the imagination so h as a search for hidden treasure or in fact nothing is so en cing thrilling as are the treas tales of robert louis stevenson i just as thrilling are being en d in truth in different parts of globe to day present several interesting treas hunts are under way in the lit bay of tobermory Tober mory on the west t of scotland a syndicate is en wing to reach the strong box of aken ship of the spanish armada ih plunged beneath those waters wealth estimated at 15 borts are being made to raise a ish warship which was sunk in klava bay during the crimean those at the head of this en ise expect to reap a golden bar of 3 in prosy england marshes of the wash are being ored for the royal jewels and lure of king john rach were by him during his flight in some months an army of la rs has been digging for treasure he island of mauritius once the rt of daring and successful pi i of the indian ocean within last 70 years no fewer than 18 seeking expeditions have ex id cocos island in tha pacific numerous deadly clashes have re id in the search for the millions to be burled there A search breasure re asure la going on there now to almost every clime and to ing adventures the golden ignis is of hidden treasure is luring soldiers of fortune never wove romantic or dramatic stories those of the present searches for d gold armada treasure ship present a golden thread of ro ic interest Is being spun like a mering spider web over tober bay one of the loveliest inlets ie west coast of scotland this offers shelter to mariners and men off the northwest comer of ale of mull that point a determined search i for treasure which it Is be has lain quietly under the wa pr more than three centuries romance and tradition ands the gold which Is supposed ive gone down with the admiral orence or florentia the treasure of the spanish armada in 1588 bend has it that in september at year a large spanish galleon florentia in trying to avoid the jis and save the treasure on board suitable weather made possible escape southward took refuge in sate land locked bay of tober to reports the florentia on board in english the officers and men who starving demanded food from jl cLeans of mull return for supplies after due ne ion the admiral agreed to land ien to assist the mclean clan of md which at that time was at Is points with the mcdonalds as also to pay the mcleans a sum of money as well it they I 1 assist him to repair his ship s promise ot money Is taken to the presence of a considerable ity of specie on board and as essel was a flagship it Is hat she carried the treasure of etire armada i men were landed and as in defeating the mcdonalds were afterward allowed to return e ship but the mcleans held officers as hostages until the e paid chieftain a prisoner also sent one of their calaf donald glas mclean on board essel to collect the price agreed but the spanish admiral dis 1 him and kept him a prisoner ing the night so the story goeb in discovered the position of the ir magazine the next morning e ship was getting under way rief tain was brought on deck to a last look at his native land ing away from his captors he 1 below and blew up the ship tag with most of the crew pe then a number of endeavors made to recover the treas in 1641 and again in 1655 the of argyle attempted salvage op ns but without success in 1730 ng bell was employed at that time p fine bronze cannon was recovered with many gold and liver coins since then other guns and relics have been brought to the surface but the supposed to contain the treasure has never been reached among the articles already ered are sword blades and scabbards pistols large and small a peculiar tapering necked bottle of crude work manship and bones of drowned aspan lards the sword blades and scab bardi were heavily incrusted with lime and the bottle covered with one of the early divers found that the deck of the vessel from the z zen mast forward was mown away and that cannon and other contents of the ship were scattered about tor a distance of 20 yards the poop from the mainmast aft however was intact here it Is believed the treas ure room Is located since then the vessel has settled considerably and a formation of sand and mud now covers it to get through this a wrecking crew Is work ing under direction of capt william burns who has hod considerable ex per lence in salvage work sand pumps are being used and the divers work by the aid of a 2 candle power electric light they have brought ap candlesticks flagons copper pans coins a gold ring and a number of metal and stone cannon balls it Is believed that ane wrecking crew has lo 10 abed the position of the and will in a short time be able to penetrate to the treasure halt of all recovered it is understood Is to go to the duke of argyle who owns the surrounding land and the remainder to the scotch company that Is prosecuting the search on island of mauritius for some months an army of labor ers has been digging on the island of mauritius in the indian ocean search ing for a treasure valued at or more supposed to have been burled at the time of the british con auest or some time before by the french officials this expedition Is being directed by a company formed for the purpose of unearthing the treasure part of the wealth Is said to have been secreted in the of the black mountain by french officials and it Is in that locality that the present feverish search Is being prose buted england Is excited just now over an attempt to recover the royal jewels and treasure lost by king john in the wash when he fled across the marshes in 1216 in preparation for the search st john hope assistant secretary of the society of antiquarians has made a study of the tides and land from the time king john lost his bag gage and his wealth until the present the wash has changed in its course since 1216 and mr hope calculates that the treasure wagons will be lo 10 bated at sutton bridge where there Is 23 feet of silt another search tor wealth long hid den beneath the waters Is being con ducted at sebastopol in the crimea armed with government authority salvage experts have undertaken to raise from the bottom of balaklava bay a large british man of war sunk by russian gunfire directed against the british french and turkish op ponente of the czar it is stated ha members of the rus admiralty possess trustworthy information to the effect that the s inken man of war contains a large sum of money originally destined tor the payment of the british forces the present attempt Is progressing under the supervision of a well known specialist in salvage sig an italian knows of pirate s hoard A few weeks ago a boston woman who signed the name sadie J ma son at the bottom of a newspaper ad for backers for her en asserted that she had learned the hiding place of millions of treas ure which was captured by the cut throat crew of a ship that flew the jolly roger for a number of sue years and was finally burned three quarters of a century ago on an island in the st lawrence gulf miss mason asserted that in the spot of which she had learned there were millions in gold silver and jew els waiting only to be taken away at last accounts this vast treasure trove had not been unearthed familiar to every newspaper read of recent years is the story of the famois cocos island treasure dur ing the last 70 year no fewer than 38 expeditions have set out to recover this p ie of gold and jewels indeed more t n oice parties have engaged in deadly conflict search Is in res th re at the present time cocos 1 an 1 is a patch of land 16 q are lea in extent rising from the pa c t the coast of costa rica ti ch country it belongs T ot p plants are supposed to be lir t te e oa o a of and HP ath r of tie r t li ballel the bonita treas ie f r t e aa pirate of that parre vears bonita flew the blar fl g and cross bones in the cirlor an ea and great cf pi neer driven from those aters fla be the isthmus of aej began operations on the pa if wei 11 buried ty aonita in isa the surrender of dodaja to the liberator iturbide vast stoics of government wealth were re moved from the city of mexico bonita it is bated managed to cap ture the treasure and hurried with 1 is spoil to cocos 1 land where he buried it ahe other plant called the mary dier treasure was committed to the 1 of cocos island by the crew of the ship of that name which hap bened to be in the harbor of cal lao peru during a war upheaval all the treasures and plate of the cathedral and of the churches of lima and the surround ng country were hurr ed to the scotch ship mary dier in addition many wealthy citizens placed their choicest possessions on the vessel in all it Is stated that the ship s unexpected cargo amount ed in value to over 15 this proved too much tradition states tor the officers and crew the guard ans of the wealth were over powered and the treasure was land ed and burled on cocos island until such time as it could be recovered and used some time later the vessel and most of the crew were lost the captain named thompson made his way to canada and died there he corn his secret to one keating who made several trips to the island and succeeded in recovering about 3 in golden doubloons since then numerous exploring ex petitions ions have visited the island only last year two of these came into conflict and a savage fight ensued there have been other fights over the treasure many parties hunt treasure at present the island Is guarded by capt matthews its governor and part owner he is directing the search harold gray of ireland claims the concession to hunt the treasure but the claim is combated by others an armed expedition under lord fitz williams of england had a brush with the gray forces last year and the costa rican government was corn belled to send a gunboat to restore order As far as known the cocos island treasure remains undiscovered most treasure hunts ae being con ducted by companies which provide capital as a speculation now and then however the story comes to light of some gold dazzled individual who sinks all his possessions in chas ing the golden will the wisp one such man william S meade died recently penniless and alone in new york early in life he made a fortune through an invention b spent it all chasing the ignis fatrus of hidden treasure meade asserted he had fallen hell to maps and directions that would lead to buried wealth that would run up into the millions he purchased a large and expensive steam yacht manned it with a large crew and ma chinery tor raising sunken galleons supposed to be full of spanish gold and soon after the civil war set sail for the south seas disaster wreck and privation fell to the ot of the first cruise and meade and his companions were forced to return without a single find more money was sunk in fitting out another expedition but this too was a failure that ended in a shipwreck |
