-. V fin‘rw
"nonhuman-then
“or is connected win the British dile-
:-utc moan about to sail from San
Jose. Costa Rica. to scroll tor the elusive
m suede memorable by m m
Stevenson in his intriguing “Treasure
Island.”
"Treasure Island" is Cocos Island. It
lies about “(Mullen due-west of Costumes.
..’l'here is 8006 Monte believe there in
“5.000.000 in gold, bullion and jewels
buried in this diminutive tract of land five
miles square.
Miss Sands will head her own expedition
-—ehe will be captain at a crew of picked
aailors. She proposes to stay on the island
until she finds the gold.
This adventure of Miss Sands recalls the
recent expedition of Christian Hemmick.
the New York and Washington society
man. on this same quest—the gold left a
century ago by fugitives and pirates on
this isolated land. Hemmlck returned, but
in his disappointment he was not alone.
for scores of other adventurers have gone
to this island on the pirate gold hunt only
to come back more convinced than ever
that the treasure is there, but also con-
vinced that it never will be tound.
Miss Sands is sure she will be successful
—-ebe has a "map." which "will show her
just where the gold was buried.”
And that'is the
.- “New ‘Map” Shammg Just ‘Whe’rc the
Wealth of Ancient Peru Was
Buried Turns Up; Loot of
Spanish Galleon: Hid-
den There, bat All
Quests ’ Have
fascinating secret
of Cocos Island—
the maps. on an-
cient parchment pa-
COCOS
ISLAND
SUGAR L0”
'per. each one quite Swami 9v.
plainly iully a bun-
dred years old. and
yet all differing
from each other de-
spite the circum-
stantial evidence
which seems to
prove each the gen-
nine! '
Miss Sands has
reason to believe
she has the map
made by Capt. Mor-
gan in 1820, when
he and his crew
e.-
vnlalnalel'tthebaachand
eneakadtotheneareetottbe
caches. where the treasure
of the least value was
buried the State
treasure of Peru on
this island to pro-
tect it from revo-
lutionists.
Unquestlon-
ably there is abun-
dant Pirate gold buried in the soil of Co-
cos. The evidence is indisputable.
A hundred and two years ago Lima. rich-
est city of South America. of which the
port was Cullao. found itseli threatened by
the invading army of Chile. The Govern-
ment officials and the people became afraid.
They were overtaken by panic. for the peril
had been unforeseen.
Steps were taken to save the riches. The
Viceroy called his Cabinet into session and
after lengthy discussion the bravest cap-
tain of the little Peruvian navy was called.
lie was Capt. Morgan, an Englishman. who
had sailed the seas of all the earth. At
that time he was in the hire oi the Govern-
ment of Peru.
Captain Morgan was told to take the best
ship of the iicct. load upon it the treaaum
of the cities. take a passengers the beauti-
ful wives and daughters ot wealthy and
distinguished gcntlcnien. and put out to
sea and safety—tor it was a deeper fear
that the Chilians would claim the loveliest
women as the spoils of victory.
As the boar tor his arranged departure
came the rich men of the cities came to
him with their wives and daughters. and
Wed that he take them to satety. He
agreed. -
In the dead of night Captain Morgan
-aailed out of Callao with his cargo o!
jewels and gold and feminine beauty. The
vessel stood out two days from shore and
waited.
The elements took a hand and a sudden
storm drove his helpless vessel for out into
the sea. “’hen it abated the ship was far
all the course of trade vessels. but in a
sector where private craft were not unac-
customed to sail. 'Captain Morgan became
frightened.
But again the Fates took his straits in
charge. Land was sighted and upon mak-
ing an approach to it Captain Morgan saw
that it was an island. Then a thought
came to him: He would hide the treasure
in the island and return to Callao. Atter
all danger there>had passed he wculd re-
turn to the island and recover the treasure.
He put into a small port. The next morn-
‘ing the Captain sent members of his crew
out to explore the Ind. They found it un-
dergrown and bushy with plant lite. but
uninhabited by animals or man he“,
Captain-Morgan sought calla Inup'lerthe
little dot that would hear the ills-fame.
m be found it. “Cocoe'lslnndf ’ -'
other marks
to the [old-
One of the “treasure maps" of Cocos Island, found in . musket.
and thought to be the one drawn by Capt. “a... We
show where tbe'treaaure is and on the but of the h. F"
It failed, berm.
to assist the searcher.
ter the job had been done—three hundred
sacks of money and ornaments buried in
three different caches—the crew returned
to the ship.
Thompson; however, had plans 0! his
own. The first night out be selected a band
of radians, the trouble makers among the
members of the crew. and persuaded them
to join him in mutiny, to murder the rest
oi the ofllcers and those of the crew who
would not take part in the mutiny and to
return for the treasure—4n short to be-
come pirates and to tiy the black flag.-
Atter battening the hatches and electu-
ally locking the crew in. the mutinous band
carried out their plans, Thompson himself
driving his knits into the heart of the
sleeping Captain Morgan. He took the
map—a, careful chart made on the lly-leuf
oi the ship's Bible.
The other mntineers quickly disposed at
the remaining oilioera and than oflered the
imprisoned crew the privthe ct joining
them as pirates or the alternative or walk-
ing the plank. Only one sailor walked the
plank.
The black dag was~hoiated and the boat
was turned back toward the island. Upon
landing. the first thing to which attention
was given were the women. Thompson ap-
portioned them out to the members of his
band. and while the sailors were occupied ‘
with subdning their beautiful centim—
Thompson and three or his most trusted
boarded.
Then he ordered the woman
killed. But two of his men
had become attached totbe
womenwhohadbeen-m
them and they demurred.
He shot one and the other
came to his aid. Another general fight
ensued. and when calm had come again
there were only three left: Thompson
and two others. These three turned on
the praying women and murdered them
every one.
Now they were in a plight! Three men
could sail the vessel by superhuman
strength and skill perhaps to the main-
land a hundred miles away. but their
course was the path of pirates. and they
knew they could not carry treasure with
them. for they would in such a case be
shown no mercy it captured. So they
dragged out one sack of gold and hid it
on the boat. Then they set out. They
were not caught by pirates. but a storm
drove them tar from any land. and they
were caught by a Peruvian warship. tranar
ten-ed from their vessel as prisoners and
taken to Calico, where there was much
anxiety about the fate of Capt. Morgan's
vessel. Because the dilp was recognised.
Thompson told a story that brought about
the immediate hanging of the two sailors.
to lend
He himself. however, was not taken to the»
gallows beauae he was needed to direbt
another vessel to the treasure island.
A'large vessel was chartered tron: an
Armorial: captain. who was in the port of
Callas. and sail waa set tor Cocoa. When
thieves-e1. the nary Duty-“I‘M"! sight
oitbaialauditwaabeealmedeottartrem
another ship in a similar predicament. and
faithtullythattheirprarerahadbeenau-
swered by Ste. Anne. they immediately set
to work cerium a rude wooden
chapel which was destined in became
world Mona through the sued-sine
ehumheathatbflowedit.
Intheerectioeotoneefthamdaurchaa
.'that Benn-ed theorist-almanac-
ture a parishioner- accihntaliy discovered
thatebevubrinehadcaratteepowers. Leela
Guinont was his namez'he—hel'ed tn'tbe
construction or the church to show his
mm tor the patron-ea saint. al-
though he oouldscaroely walk because or
mean, (rem which he had adored
paced ouestone in~tbe mum their
Whether by the amen-gum ofrttose
whome‘totbeehrheto'beemo!
lftbealandcaoftheoldlbuccancera
arch—gigare-adCoeoalaland
arrivalefmeweearcheuwitbnew
“Mme.
3i
is
Carter the Virginiteek I‘m
oxen-am. 1922. bruise- roux Hui-aid.
during the night Thompson swam away
from the vaael on which be was a quasi-
captive and arrived sately aboard the other
vessel.
Thompson had told the captain of the
vessel to which he had escaped of the
buried treasure on the island. and a bar-
gain had been quickly made.
For two months they called about South
American waters. and then the vessel with
Thompson returned some day to Cocos
Island. He carefully misled the explora-
tion party. and after a week the cap-
tain of the privateer accepted his dleap~
pointed surmise that members of the Hon
gan crew must have removed the treasure.
or that it must have been found by the
Peruvian party on the Mary Dear—that a:
any rate the treasure was gone.
Thompson was landed at Panama. where
he proceeded tooollect a villainous com-
pany of ocean criminals and to plot with
them to ship aboard some vessel and ma-
tiny after being fairly out to sea—to turn
pirate and seek the treasure on that-land.
The plot was carried out. the captain of
the vessel was murdered and the mutt-ecu
turned toward the island. only to be beaten
helpless by a sudden storm. They were
rescued by a whaler. Another taihirei
Three similar faliunaa (allowed in the out
three years. The last time his own crew
mutilated a second time and be was set
adrift. Hie little boat was sighted by a
vessel bound tot-Nova Scotia and be was
melted. no. -
This vessel was caught in the ice noea.on‘
the Newfoundland coast. near the village of
Codroy. and in the eitort to walk over the
broken crust to ‘a villueoa fie drone
Mpsen cell into the watc- and would
have been drowned unmet as or am
or fishermen. who had come-outta beip'hnn'
get ashore across the nose. pleased in and
o‘f/w Foams Heating 3
it is curious that theothar m
healing shrine or North Anode-wits
ahliaaot theVilzinofm.1-r
Nexieo City. was also overs-hen bysdteae.
but recently. lexical: radicals placed-
bomba under the celebrated chapel and
wreck-ditbuttbe statueto M“
m are attributed was man“
This shrine. maybe had-a maritim-
lng history. It was when“ in In].
”In by. the lndian. filled St "1th
saved him. Thomp-
.:. . .1) l _
oral :: ,.- mt :51
80!! went to the Christian Kennick. romantic'ad- 311d 83“” i '- but
m of this 53“?!“ renter-er and society man. who never rm :> 1‘1“"? is
anal}, where he stayed went to “Treasure Island" twice. bring ‘: . mili-
1" from exposure and found many claws, but zaffon ; a; :‘par. as
for several: weeks. missed the treasure. infi:;{{‘}- ,- 7; pm.
During that time he lion (5 :::ried
00d Thomas testing. his rescuer. became treasure.
iirm friends, and remainei so until And then the map disappear-c 3- - 221m
Thompson's death. which occurred soon reappeared in hundreds of hr.» .\ .‘(W
“Mild. years after its dimppeammt 1: '..'-'1. is
At his bedside he intmsted to Resting turn up in all quarters of the ,1 One
the map for which he had committed a
(Insert murders and which had turned the
course “his life from an upright trend to
the utmost consciencelese of bearing.
'l‘batiatbemap of-whiebtberearebam—
deeds of memory copie and to-rgeries. Nor
“the end or Thomson's lite mark the
out“ the toll of Jim taken by the Cocos
Island quest.
.xsating and his descendants made sev-
files
which she gathered from brambie bushes
and!!!“ him to take’this and show it to.
.e ruler,~ who would be convinced, in
~«Isflentien of the fact that roses were
“flees-an.” he had really seen the
Virgin. ‘
Chewing die-roses as his proof. Jinn
M'haily was admitted to the palace.
He told he ruler at his extraordinary ex-
perience. His-_atory was doubted. and the
tndian prepared to firm his arrest. He
~opened his blanket to chew the roses;
they had disappeared, and in their stead
there .w-a picture of the Virgin woven
story—verified. too-is that a Sun; in
New Orleans, preparing to {:0 r. .1 5. mm
In the sold rush of ’49, purthasi-I ;.n 0H.
second-hand musket. in Texas r- 1.4.1 his
first Opportunity to fire it, w. - . wt
Would not work. He investigate ’ 4:1. L {Mild
it stopped by a roll oi p‘di‘t‘ , CM
Opeflins the parchment ht {mm-i 'Tte gen
uine Morgan map."
The Swede spent his liie in {“221 “- "18 “Ii
the Promise given him by the 1r..- ;‘ "H he
never found the caches of the tux.» we.
Meanwhile. a map had come :;.:2- the
hands or Mrs. Estelle Duran, a Emnélel
Parisian society woman, and she under-
Wk the quest. She was near 1.t..ni oi
afterward. and it is generally helm-ti that
she‘discovered ‘ part of the trfac :76 and
was murdered by a mutinous sfi; 5 «rev
because of her discovery.
A map purporting to be the petul'nt one
came into the hands of Miss «haulers
Davies. an English heiress and s‘w ‘wi an
expedition that ended in disaster. .‘."""-1Fh
she herself returned safely to Eng. '
Now a young woman—Miss
dirt. “from at the blanket. The evi-‘cnw. set out from San Jose last we".
deatsairaele instantly convinced the ruler.
aflrbemoa‘rlcte‘dtbe church which now
*fimm spot pomted‘ out by Juan
Dim—3' church somewhat wrecked but
mam a. marvelous cure
the m
g . heart?“ no cal-a. theses” shrines
.3. “Q.” _.m Judie mm. Tl"!
wens is the lathe attire Grotto (gt-Lonnie;
- France. not tar tro-
fitting out an expedition to 1:0 mrch
' of the treasure. and her vessel. “'3 ~ . ”5“"
She too is in possession of a ";'?‘r"”"
llorgan map."
But there is really more trees-um - n 1)
(:08 Island than the actually genuine .560-
m up would show. The pirate lielnic
Ild'fie notorious buccmneer BLINK band
are known to have buried together about
$15,000“ worth of treasure in (”m-ism“.
MthoWever, is a scant tenth of the
fiche; 0t Calho, which were hiddon H'-
1820 and “id: have mower been unearthed.
Norwalk Chronicler