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Show TREASURE SEEKERS GO SOUTH Brazil Is New Land of Promise That Beckons Those Who Woo the Fickle Goddess, Fortune. Treasure seekers are turning thej eyes toward the old gold coast again. This time they are not thinking of the sunken hulks of overloaded ships three centuries under the sea that might by some mad miracle of luck still be salvaged. Nor have they heard another scries of maudlin whispers of a hoard of pirate gold just found by the crew of a rum runner hunting a hidden harbor. Yellow gold and flat slabs of feathered feath-ered emerald engraved by Indians before be-fore the Spanish flag and the Catholic cross were carrel d into the Americas do not Interest them. It's the repeated news of new diamond dia-mond fields that have been opened recently re-cently between the mouth of the Magdalen Mag-dalen a river and the headwaters of the Klo Grande of Brazil that is filling the veins of those who seek sudden wealth with a fever to find a fortune In blue clay beds or along the batiks of streams that rise somewhere Inland In mountain ranges that bordei jungles, the New York Sun states. Footloose adventurers everywhere are looking up ways and means of reaching a likely port along the gold coast somewhere between Caracas and Cayenne, or of arriving In Brazil some .where between Bahla and Sao Paulo. |