Show 1 and turned boic eyo eye toward towar tw I 1 linia lima why there wis panic in the th capital of 0 peru those who had bad a or A pull rushed valuables into tile th fortress to the amount of the treasure of tile catli cathedral edral of lima was sent to sea many ot of tho the rica took whatever shipping was wa at hand and sailed with their treasures A now one story of 0 those days ol of panic that been believed by one kofl treasure becking expedition after nn an other Is that captain thompson of the th mary dear tool took on board gold and sliver silver to abo amount of that after leaving port lie ho did away with the owners that lie ho burled the twelve millions on cocos another version adds that thompson joined ks X t xa ay alj V S 9 it aj PAN tj aw i I 1 NA 7 ank IM grala zye zale 43 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN LL ABOARD for the cocos I 1 jre boro we go for the treasure y of the mary dearl dear I 1 captain y I 1 thompson Is dead and lu in li 1 if there Is 13 any such place but the story of of his burled millions goes travel ing on wherever men go fio down to tho abd sea in id ships all of which Is occasioned by the following cablegram from london ofa recent 0 date three english women miss I 1 el C creesman ie esmark who la is curator of the insect house at the london zoo miss cynthis cynthia longfield Loner neld a fellow of 0 tho the zoographical society and miss alles cropp a stewardess will take part in ili it a hunt hint for or 1700 oooo worth of burled treasure which will be a tilde bide line of tho the expedition alo n leaving leavene england this month in tho the sailing balling yacht st george under the direction of tho the scientific expeditionary Ite research search association the treasure was burled buried in cocos island by the mutinous crow crew ot of the british ship mary alary read head which was loaded with it for or safe keeping during the war between chile and peru a hundred years yearn ago the absconding crew was overtaken and shot by a peruvian punitive but the tha cabin boy survived and the organizer of the ha expedition tion now has been approached by a man whose identity la is undisclosed W who ho claims that he got from the cabin boy as an old man the exact bearings ot of the spot where the treasure lies iles burled buried this man equipped with boring ma machinery chinery will meet the expedition on cocos island to endeavor to locate the treasure all earlier search for which has haa failed to be sure the naino of the ship wis waa the mary dear and not the mary head but the cabin boy may have transposed cd the letters as a matter of precaution and the alary dears treasure was instead of unless the englishwomen englishwoman English women are I 1 flu feuring ring on oil an accumulation of interest and tile tho cabin boy Is not strictly in accord with the accepted vers on of the tale but what of small details like that I 1 nobody lias has ever found and carried olt off tho the treasure therefore it must still bo be there so all aboard for cocos cocoa in the pacific off the coast of costa RIM rica tile the roost most popular resort ot of treasure seek leis fera in all the world hurrah for pieces pf af eight and doubloons doub loons in a chest rah for solid gold candlesticks ij and shrines hurrah for diamonds diamondi and rubles and emeralds by the handful if they are arc not to be had on cocos coco they ought to be for in the days of old the pirn pirates tes swarmed along the west coast and throve throb 0 moot moat amazingly and every pirate worth tile the name burled buried his treasure as aa a mutter matter of course coarse sir henry morgan knighted by charles Cliar iea 11 one time governor of Jam jamacia camada acla and ablest most and most of all the buo bue candera has wt hitherto been brej cro j saw laly suspected of having burled buried treasure tre asuro on cocos but now just in the nick of time bernard joachim of panama world champion deep diver announces that he has found koreans dor gans treasure vault in morgans sunken cave on old providence island and if morgan buried treasure tre asuro there why not also on CO cocos cos this bloodthirsty welshman certainly took enough loot to keep him busy hiding it for ills his individual share from the sticking sacking of old panama was wag to say nothing of what he took from the s lie he double crossed and deserted captain kidd appears to have hurled buried treasure pretty much everywhere so go why not on cocos captain euid by the way started out under commission from william III as a pirate catcher lie had several silent p partners arane r s W who b 0 later found it wise to silence him so they worked a frame up on him and hanged him ns as a pirate ile iio never was very bloodthirsty and apparently about the worst thing he be did was waa this as aa the immortal ballad tins has it I 1 made a solemn vow tow when I 1 sailed when I 1 sailed I 1 made a solemn vow when I 1 sailed balled I 1 imade made a solemn vow to god 1 I would not bow i nor myself a prayer allow as I 1 sailed rd id a abibile bible in my hand when I 1 sailed when I 1 sailed rd id a bible in my hand when I 1 sailed id abibile a bible in my hand by my fathers great command and I 1 sunk aenk it in the sand when I 1 sailed tho the story of the mary dear goes hack back just about a century she was nn an english trading brig in commend of captain thompson and she lay in the harbor of lima in 1820 this was tho the time when the SP spanish coun tries of south america were throwing off the yoke of S spain pain the we wealthiest city left of at all I 1 that vast domain won by the and held by the viceroys vice roys was lima the capital of peru pern which had been the seat scat of the gover government rim ent of south america since the S sixteenth century the court was maintained there in magnificence and the jio archbishop of limn was wag all powerful the great cathedral still stands to pro claim the grandeur that was waa limas in IV 1820 0 but when bolivar the liberator drove the spaniards out of venezuela and set up the free republic of col arow with benito bonito a famous pirate of that time that they accumulated much booty nod and that thea burled that also on COCOS cocoa it Is history that bonito was run down by the british frigate Esp legle and rather than be captured lie he blew his brains out on ills his own deck there lg Is a third version of the story which asserts that capt edward davis at an earlier date had bad also burled vast treasure on cocos this davis was a successful pirate who took advantage of the kings proclamation of pardon in 1698 retired from piracy and wont went back to engird to end ena ills his days in affluence and respectability lie he certainly took great spoils along the spanish coast of south america and the isthmus and as certainly lie he used cocoa as a place 11 lace for careening ship but it la Is the treasure of ta the 10 mary dear that tins has been the lure of cocos captain thompson escaped the fate fato that overtook bonito so the story goes and got safely to england angland in 1814 lie he confided in ono one keating a newfoundlander and then died kenting keating and a captain bogue found tile the treasure on cocos cocoa tile the crow mutinied mutinies muti nied and demanded a share kenting and bogue in itt attempting temptIng to escape with a boatload of the treasure were upset in the surf bogue drowned lC heating enting was carried out to sea and vas was rescued twenty years later inter kenting keating told ills his tale to another newfoundlander nicholas fitzgerald B keal ing then up and died but he be left i young widow who struck up a part with a captain hachett blackett they node made an unsuccessful voyage to cocos in n the brig aurora Mean meanwhile meanwhile whilo the mary dear secret had leaked out find and treasure seekers galore got busy here ore are some of them A german von bremer spent thousands in excavating and tunneling A roan man named gissler more than thirty years ago took up it solitary residence on cocos and got a commis sion blon ns as governor Ro vernor from costa rica he was alive and still looking for the treasure in 1011 in 1800 1806 captain shrapnel of rl M S put a party of erf blue jackets a it work in 1004 two english expeditions worked simultaneously since then and until tho the wo world r id war hardly a year has passed without it a cocoa expedition elther cither on tho the island ar u under d c r pr preparation epa r a ti OM |