The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-06

buried on the Cocos Islands. They found their
enterprise and their faith on the following ira
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4 During the year 1916 the people of Mexico
were in rebellion against the authority of Old
Spain, and the whole country was in state
of commotion. 1t had been the habit of Gov
eminent to ship large amounts of treasure
the product of rich mines of Mexico-to SPAIN
direct from Vera Cruz, but the losses occa-
by the depredations of the buccaneers, who
swarmed about the Caribbean Sea, induced
the Spanish Viceroy to make the shipments
of treasure from the western coast to Manila
whence it might be transported in safety to
Spain. The Viceroy alarmed at the bold front
of the insurgents, and apprehensive of their
ultimate success, determined to secure as large
portion as possible of the Government trea-
sures under his control from the contingencies
of war. I o this end he gathered an immense
amount, consisting of coin, both gold and sill
yer, gold bars, jewels and costly articles, trans
ported them to Acapulco, and shipped them on
Spanish galleon to Manila.
Previous to this, Buenos Ayres had also re-
volted against the Spaniards, and certain in
habtants of that place-represented to have
been Scotch merchants fitted out a number
of privateers under the BuenOs Ayrean flag, to
prey upon the richly freighted galleons of
Spain, which were at that time bearing the
treasures of her colonies to the mother
country.
One of these Buenos Ayrean privateers
doubled Cape Horn for cruise in the Pacific;
her crew mutined, and the Captain and officers
were put on shore at Valparaiso. The YES
sci continued on her cruise, and after taking
several prizes, discussions arose among the
ships's company, and sixteen of the number
determined to cut adrift from the rest, which
they accomplished by making off in the vessel
of which they had made prize, taking off with
them considerable share of the prize money
gained. These sixteen men fell in with and
captured the Spanish galleOn which had left
Acapulco with the treasure shipped by the
VicerOy of Mexico before mentioned. After
taking this prize, the amount in their possession
was so vast that, being few in number, and
fearful of falling in with their old companions,
or with some large vessel that might take
them captive, they determined to secret the
greater portion and return at some future
time for its recovery. Accordingly they buried
it with many precautions on Cocos Islands as
before stated. Not long afterwards their YES
sci was lost, some of the crew captured by
man-ofwar, and the rest scattered to the four
quarters of the globe.
This tradition comes from a man named
Chaplain, who pretended that he was one of the
sixteen persons who buried the treasure. Chap
lain, it is pretended, died at Punta Arenas in
lS49. During his illness, he conided the
great secret to his doctor, with all necessary
particulars in the case to direct the medicine
man to the exact spot where the treasure was
hid. The patient disclosed, that there was
large quantity of silver dollars and gold, in bulk,
which they carried on shore and threw promis-
cuously into hole which they had made. In
addition to this, there were five hundred boxes
of dOubloOns, which would alone make IS ,OOO,-
900. Besides these, there was a large amount
of gold bars, precious stones, spleudid swords
indeed, almost every thing that could tempt the
heart of pirate. AS we remarked, ship
has been sent out from San Francisco to bring
in this treasure, and if she comes back with
comfortable cargo of guano her owners should
be we'll satisfied with the profits of the fancy
adventure. We have no belief that there is
any such treasure as is dreamed of there.