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<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <br/><br/> <SPAN name="img-front"></SPAN> <center> <ANTIMG CLASS="imgcenter" SRC="images/img-front.jpg" ALT="H.M.S. Lutine leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage. (<i>From the painting by Frank Mason, R.A., in the Committee Room of Lloyd's, London.</i>) <i>See Chapter XI.</i>" BORDER="2" WIDTH="734" HEIGHT="552"> <H4 CLASS="h4center" STYLE="width: 734px"> H.M.S. <i>Lutine</i> leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage. (<i>From the painting by Frank Mason, R.A., in the Committee Room of Lloyd's, London.</i>) <i>See Chapter XI.</i> </h4> </center> <br/><br/><br/> <h1> THE BOOK OF <br/> BURIED TREASURE </h1> <br/><br/> <h3> BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE GOLD, JEWELS,<br/> AND PLATE OF PIRATES, GALLEONS, ETC.,<br/> WHICH ARE SOUGHT FOR TO THIS DAY<br/> </h3> <br/><br/> <h4> BY </h4> <h3> RALPH D. PAINE </h3> <h5> Author of "The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem," etc. </h5> <br/><br/><br/> <h4> ILLUSTRATED </h4> <br/><br/><br/> <h4> London <br/> William Heinemann <br/> 1911 </h4> <br/><br/><br/> <h5> Copyright 1911 <br/> By METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE COMPANY <br/><br/> Copyright 1911 <br/> By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY <br/><br/> Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1911 </h5> <br/><br/><br/> <h2> CONTENTS </h2> <table ALIGN="center" WIDTH="80%"> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">CHAPTER</td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">I  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap01">THE WORLD-WIDE HUNT FOR VANISHED RICHES</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">II  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap02">CAPTAIN KIDD IN FACT AND FICTION</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">III  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap03">CAPTAIN KIDD, HIS TREASURE</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IV  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap04">CAPTAIN KIDD, HIS TRIAL AND DEATH</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">V  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap05">THE WONDROUS FORTUNE OF WILLIAM PHIPS</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VI  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap06">THE BOLD SEA ROGUE, JOHN QUELCH</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VII  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap07">THE ARMADA GALLEON OF TOBERMORY BAY</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VIII  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap08">THE LOST PLATE FLEET OF VIGO</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IX  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap09">THE PIRATES' HOARD OF TRINIDAD</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">X  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap10">THE LURE OF COCOS ISLAND</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XI  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap11">THE MYSTERY OF THE LUTINE FRIGATE</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XII  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap12">THE TOILERS OF THE THETIS</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XIII  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap13">THE QUEST OF EL DORADO</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XIV  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap14">THE WIZARDRY OF THE DIVINING ROD</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XV  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap15">SUNDRY PIRATES AND THEIR BOOTY</SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XVI  </td> <td ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <SPAN href="#chap16">PRACTICAL HINTS FOR TREASURE SEEKERS</SPAN></td> </tr> </table> <br/><br/><br/> <h2> ILLUSTRATIONS </h2> <h4><SPAN href="#img-front"> H. M. S. <i>Lutine</i> leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage . . . . . . . . . . . <i>Frontispiece</i><br/></SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-006"> Treasure-seekers' Camp at Cape Vidal on African Coast</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-006"> Divers searching wreck of Treasure-ship <i>Dorothea</i>, Cape Vidal, Africa</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-026"> Captain Kidd burying his Bible</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-026"> Carousing at Old Calabar River</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-044"> The Idle Apprentice goes to sea</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-068"> John Gardiner's sworn statement of the goods and treasure left with him by Kidd</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-068"> Governor Bellomont's endorsement of the official inventory of Kidd's treasure found on Gardiner's Island</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-082"> The official inventory of the Kidd treasure found on Gardiner's Island</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-085"> A memorandum of Captain Kidd's treasure left on Gardiner's Island</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-092"> Statement of Edward Davis, who sailed home with Kidd, concerning the landing of the treasure and goods</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-104"> The French pass or safe conduct paper found by Kidd in the ship <i>Quedah Merchant</i></SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-128"> Kidd hanging in chains</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-128"> "The Pirates' Stairs" leading to the site of Execution Dock at Wapping where Kidd was hanged</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-133"> Sir William Phips, first royal governor of Massachusetts</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-140"> Map of Hispaniola (Hayti and San Domingo) engraved in 1723, showing the buccaneers at their trade of hunting wild cattle</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-149"> Permit issued by Sir William Phips as royal governor in which he uses the title "Vice-Admiral" which involved him in disastrous quarrels</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-156"> The oldest existing print of Boston harbor as it appeared in the time of Sir William Phips, showing the kind of ships in which he sailed to find his treasure</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-166"> An ancient map of Jamaica showing the haunts of the pirates and the track of the treasure galleons</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-181"> The town and bay of Tobermory, Island of Mull</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-188"> Duart Castle, chief stronghold of the MacLeans</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-188"> Ardnamurchan Castle, seat of the MacIans and the MacDonalds</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-196"> Defeat of the Spanish Armada</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-215"> Diving to find the treasure galleon in Tobermory Bay</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-215"> The salvage steamer <i>Breamer</i> equipped with suction dredge removing a sandbank from the supposed location of the <i>Florencia</i> galleon in 1909</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-218"> Scabbards, flasks, cannon balls, and small objects recovered from the sunken Armada galleon</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-218"> Stone cannon balls and breech-block of a breech-loading gun fished up from the wreck of the <i>Florencia</i> galleon</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-225"> Sir George Rooke, commanding the British fleet at the battle of Vigo Bay</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-229"> <i>The Royal Sovereign</i>, one of Admiral Sir George Rooke's line-of-battle ships, engaged at Vigo Bay</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-236"> Framework of an "elevator" devised by Pino for raising the galleons in Vigo Bay</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-236"> An "elevator" with air bags inflated</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-240"> Cannon of the treasure galleons recovered by Pino from the bottom of Vigo Bay</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-240"> Hydroscope invented by Pino for exploring the sea bottom and successfully used in finding the galleons of Vigo Bay</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-246"> Lima Cathedral</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-281"> Treasure-seekers digging on Cocos Island</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-281"> Christian Cruse, the hermit treasure-seeker of Cocos Island</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-328"> Thetis Cove in calm weather, showing salvage operations</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-328"> Thetis Cove during the storm which wrecked the salvage equipment</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-348"> Sir Walter Raleigh</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-364"> Methods of manipulating the diving rod to find buried treasure</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-400"> Gibbs and Wansley burying the treasure</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-400"> The Portuguese captain cutting away the bag of moidores</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-404"> Interview between Lafitte, General Andrew Jackson, and Governor Claiborne</SPAN></h4> <h4><SPAN href="#img-404"> The death of Black Beard</SPAN></h4> <br/><br/><br/> <SPAN name="chap00b"></SPAN> <h3> THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE </h3> <br/><br/><br/> <p class="poem"> Of all the lives I ever say,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">A Pirate's be for I.</SPAN><br/> Hap what hap may he's allus gay<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">An' drinks an' bungs his eye.</SPAN><br/> For his work he's never loth:<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">An' a-pleasurin' he'll go;</SPAN><br/> Tho' certain sure to be popt off,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Yo, ho, with the rum below!</SPAN><br/></p> <p class="poem"> In Bristowe I left Poll ashore,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Well stored wi' togs an' gold,</SPAN><br/> An' off I goes to sea for more,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">A-piratin' so bold.</SPAN><br/> An' wounded in the arm I got,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">An' then a pretty blow;</SPAN><br/> Comed home I find Poll's flowed away,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Yo, ho, with the rum below!</SPAN><br/></p> <p class="poem"> An' when my precious leg was lopt,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Just for a bit of fun,</SPAN><br/> I picks it up, on t'other hopt,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">An' rammed it in a gun.</SPAN><br/> "What's that for?" cries out Salem Dick;<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">"What for, my jumpin' beau?</SPAN><br/> "Why, to give the lubbers one more kick!"<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Yo, ho, with the rum below!</SPAN><br/></p> <p class="poem"> I 'llows this crazy hull o' mine<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">At sea has had its share:</SPAN><br/> Marooned three times an' wounded nine<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">An' blowed up in the air.</SPAN><br/> But ere to Execution Bay<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">The wind these bones do blow,</SPAN><br/> I'll drink an' fight what's left away,<br/> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 1em">Yo, ho, with the rum below!</SPAN><br/></p> <p class="poem"> <SPAN STYLE="margin-left: 5em">—<i>An Old English Ballad</i>.</SPAN><br/></p> <br/><br/><br/> <SPAN name="chap01"></SPAN> <h2> THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE </h2> <br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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