, 1881-12-25
f A A:BUCCANEER'S Booty,
Tho Alleged, Discovery Of the PIunder
Taken from Panama In 1910 by Nor

Tho Alleged. Discovery Of the Plunder
! Taken from Panama In 1870 by Nor: :
~. Ne,o FORK World - ;.;::*::|'-:.
/ The following dispatch from Kingston needs
| an explanation. which the World Is glad to be
! able to make, tnasmuch as tho story hidden in
these few lines is really 3ti OF curious interest:
=" k1S0SToN, Jamaica, Dec. Gan expedition
has Just sailed from: this port conveyed BY a.
treasure On one Of the islands near the coast &c
the lslhmu9 Dt Pautsna, where, 1t Is stated, the
spoils o. Buecanser Morgan have: been dis
g. ssIs::e Dy NJ cufFle' % native " of M Nassau: '
The island here alluded to Is the fslet at Santa
Catalina, lying about ninety miles or tho Mos
quito coast in the Caribbean Sea and forming
one Of the little group known to the few who
know anything Of spanish-Ame1ican history as
the Islands Of San andres and La Proytdencfa-
It IS JUST north OF La Providencia> more familiar
to American traders as Old Providence, name
given to It to distinguish it from New ProvI~
dcnce in the Bahamas For many years after
the Spanish occupation of Central America these
tsands were: utfached alternately to the
the .Vlee-lsbyalry OF New Granada =: LyiuE~
under u tne climate and not destitute
Of profitable: cultivation. It was from san
Andres, tnueed+ thar the hrstsceds OF the since .
coast OF South Carolina toward the end of}the
last century by one OF the Smuggling, trading,
fighting ;Jamatc:,n aaventurers, who then ire.
quente4 the Caribbean coasts Of Spanish Amer .
icn- During .:the seventeenth century these
Central American Islands, lying as they do ous
tiles, we're continually visited and for years at u
time occupied by all sorts Of interiopers, and
especially by English, Dutch, and French au-
as :buecaaeers one Of Tho most % Re e:ainens %
Of theso adyenturcrs, Henry. Nosyan, q
strooeholds dnsing % Those % bsilanr op opesatlons
against the 1sthmus Of Daren in 16sD and 1911,
which euded with the capture and sacking Of
yer gullcons in that port. One, at least, OF Sfs
Henry's ships returning to Jamaica laden witt,
fhg ooofy r poth Of Panama ard of Fo1tobeliot
by her crew at Santa Catalina. and Tor two cent?
uries past Legendary stories like those which
"iost treasure Of Capt. Kidd have been ctr-
rent in those parts touching the spoil hidden ix
some corner Of.thi3 remote isfet.: *f.' -
During the winter OF 1870 80. while the Earl II
Wit, with. bis yacht at Kingston, q trader OF thaa
discovery on Santa Catalina, by certain Mr..
Currie, Of u cavern, natural or artificial, fl1ed
With ancient boxes and barrels, one or two o1
which On being carefully opened proved to con-
tain great quantities OF Jewels Of various kinds
and coin, chiefly Ut the Spanish n,lnts OF thesev-
meuts set with diamonds ic an antique fashion =
and y good many old Spanish .doubloons wera
ITCHY Of !. the. story, and he: ,wus ssronsly>
urged: 70 1ake. the narrator on board, 20 ID
quest OF Mr. Currie to the Bahamas, and then sail
for Snntn Catalina to Investigate the n,urter..
He was assured that slr. Currie had been driven
under tho leadership Of an enteeprising Yankee .
who Ind got au inkilng Of tha existence Of the
treasure and was determined not TO allow Mr-
Cnrrie to prot1t by it unless he would make
fair division. The story Was'- told so circum-
and supported with such evidence a.
to tempt Lord Lonsdale into making the "Trip,
the heart OF the Jamaican at the lust moment
failed him, SO that be: evaded his engage
ment- to come on board of tho yacht
and disappeared. From the dispatch which now
reaches US 1t would seem that Dir. Currie has
tnken up his own case energetically as to Ket
the support Of an English nan-of- war in an at--
tempt TO secure his treasure rrove. Should this :
prove to be the case, It really is not fuspEopabe
TINT the speculation may turn out more nd
than any quest for Kidd's hidden d.
gains has done: MORGAN, who wis kntghted oy
Charles L. for. exploits which IN these daya
would have sent him to the gailows, died in the
English service at Jamaica, leaving O large fort
1ne behind him. and there Is no doubt whatever .
that he and his men carried away from Panama
ID enormous sum for those days In specie, in
Jewels, and In church ornumeuts Of gold and
silver y.