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Show TREASURE SEEKERS GO SOUTH Brazil la New Land of Promise That Beckons Those Who Woo tho Fiokle Goddess, Fortune. Treasure seekers are turning their 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 Berles 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 Blabs of feathered feath-ered emerald engraved by Indians before be-fore the Spanish flag and the Oathollc cross were cnrreld 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 Mag-dnlena Mag-dnlena river and the headwaters of the Rio Grande of Brazil that Is Ailing the veins of those who seek sudden wealth with a fever to find a fortune In blue clay beds or along the banks of streams that rise somewhere Inland In mountain ranges that bordel Jungles, tho 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 somewhere some-where between Bahla and Sao Paulo. |