The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-11-26


hood. and made to swear allegiance
If any profits were derived from tn
preject, the Eve men were to ehar
, equally the booty.
In the Christmas days of 1874 tn.
little vessel with her crew of five stol'
out from the harbor Of New Orlean
and headed in . due southern course
. For many DAYS this extraordinar,
crew. started upon . mysteriou
voyage, were beat about, but q,
length. almost exhausted, they landed
in an insulated cove on the southeas
side of the island.
! The tropical vegetation was found
to be very rank aud thickly grown
and it seemed at FIRST glance to b
an impossibility ever to end traces o.
anything that had existed in Walker
time. The men went to work imme
dixtely and in earnest. They found
the bearings. as indicated by the chart
with mathematical precision. and
knowing that they could never see
the vases. now that the growth oil
vegetation had become 50 great, they
procured all the long and pointed
instruments on board the vessel. and
went to work beating down the weeds.
and letting their hearts jump into
their mouths whenever . sound was
heard indicating that they had hit
anything of a metallic or hard nature.
One night one of the s.ntinels
one of the men chosen by Capt.
Boyles. The wakefal one seeing that
no one noticed him, and having struck
that day something that gave out .
ringing sound, had marked the place
where he had been. and now started
off to investigate things alone. The
sleeping man awoke soon after the
departure of his mate, and the thought
at once flashed into his mind that the
unfaithful one had discovered what
they all had been looking for, and
giving one glance at the sleeping
party to see that they did not stir, he
started off in the moonlight-he knew
not exactly where-to look for the
traitor. The great obstacle that pre-
vious to this time had been in the
wav of the adventures was their
failure to discover the spring that was
laid down in the chart. But the man
who had struck with his iron rod the
sound,giving substance had. on the
afternoon of that same day, discovered
the great coral rock" and after
cutting away and breaking down the
weeds and clearing away the rubbish
surrounding the huge stone, he sudden
" looked upon the crystal water
gushing out from underneath the
stone. exactly as the chart had stated.
He examined the ground to zee
whether the rock and spring were
situated within such q square, cellar
like place as the chart stated. and he
found that, although much rubbish
the accumulation of many years-and
fallen into the square hole. the ground
he then stood on was fully q foot
lower than the surrounding soil. and
he never rested until he found the four
square corners of the excavation.
which in times gone BY had probably
been intended for o cellar of q house,
either not built. or destroyed after
having been erected.
The man who started from the camp
in the dark to follow, and if possible.
detect his comrsde in any crooked
must have come upon
him just at the point have described,
for it was here that those in camp
found the traitor, wounded and bleed.
ing, and the man who had followed |
and attempted his life crouched low
down in the tall growth Of weeds-and
tropical flowers.
In the morning the man who had
folio wed the trsitOrous discoverer of
he s'ucco vase told his story, anil the
general expression was that Ward
such was his name) had got what
he deserved. and they made up their
minds tn wait patiently, until he be-
anne able to speak. when if they were
compelled 90 to do, they would force
rom him all that he knew. Their
amp ground Was eleven miles from
where the schooner lay. and as they
'eeded food and medicine, two men
Iardacre and Rogers-were dispatch. I
d to fetch these neccessaries, while t,
he other two able-bodied ones re.
NAMED to take care Of the wounded I
nan. The had not been gone more {
han an hour before Capt. Boyles saw u
Iardacre running in hot haste bach.
ut of breath and wearing an express
on terrible in the extreme. As soon
, he cuuld at all command his speech $
e explained that on their way toward .
re vessel. and only about q mile from r
,eir camp, they had encountered two a
range men with axes thrown over h
'eir shoulders. Concealment was o
1t of the question. The Government L
God choppers attempted to make the Q,
70 men prisoners. An encounter n
sued, in which Hardacre thought
g companion Was killed, and be had II
caped and FASTENED back to tell the q
Tvs and consult - to what had
tier be done. q,
The men, now terribly alarmed. C,
d only one desire, and that Was, If
ssible to get back to the schooner i,
they lay quietly where they were ey
day. watched their wounded AZ
mpanion as he breathed his last,
e hole and buried him, and when El
3 shadows of night began to fall in
lie out in the darkness, made their tn
" to the schooner. which they found "l
they had left it, apd after . voyage Oh
marked BY adventures they arrived
March, 1875, in New Orleans. q 70,
ary. sick and worn out party, dis vi
xfod vith seekinO fnr hiflslen tresnres IL,