The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-09
a BUCCANEERS BOOTY.
THE ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF THE
PLUMBER TAKEN FROM PANAMA
IN 1910 By MORGAN.

The following dispatch from Kingston
needs an explanation which the world is
glad to be able to make, inasmuch as the
story hidden in these few lines is really
full of curious interest:
Kingston. Jamaica, December 6.-An
/ expedition has just sailed from this port,
conveyed by a British vessel of war, in
search of concealed treasure on one of
| the islands near the coast of the Isthmus
of Panama, where it is stated the spoils
of BuccaGeer Morgan have been discov-
cred by Mr.. Currie, native of Nassau,
N. P.
The island here alluded to is the Islet
of Santa Catalina, lying about 80 miles
off the Mosquito, in the Caribbean Sea,
and forming one of the little group
known to the few who know anything of
Spanish American history as the Islands
of San Andres and La Proyidencia,
1t is just north of La Providencia, more
| familiar to American traders as Old
Providence, name given it to distin-
guish it from New Providence in the
Bahamas. For many years after the
Spanish occupation of Central America
| these islands were attached alternately
to the generalcy of Guatemala
and to the vice-royalty of New Granada.
Lying under fine climate and being
not destitute of decent harbors, they are
also susceptible of profitable cultivation.
1t was from San Andres, indeed, that the
tirsts seeds of the since famous sea island
cotton were brought to the coast of South
Carolina toward the end of the last CEN
tury by one of the smuggling, trading,
fighting, Jamaican adventurers, who
then frequented the Caribbean coast of
Spanish America. During the seven
teenth' century these Central American
islands, lying as they do out of the i'm
mediate control of the Spanish author
tiles, were continually visited, and for
years at time occupied by all sorts of
interlopers, and especially by English,
Dutch and French adventurers of the
free-and-easy type.
One of the most eminent of the adven-
turers, Henry Morgan, Welshman,
made Santa Catalina one of his strong
holds during those brilliant operations
against the isthmus of Darien in 1870 and
1871, which ended with the capture and
sacklng of Panama, and the spelling of
the rich Spanish galleons in that port.
One, at least, of Sir Henry's ships re-
turned to Jamaica laden with the booty
both of Panama and of Portobello, is be-
stroyed by her crew at Santa Catalina,
and for two centuries past legendary
stories, like those which cluster in our
northern attitudes around the s'lost treas
ure' of Captain Kidd, have been current
in those parts touching the spoil hidden
in some corner of this remote isIet.
During the winter of 1890, while
the Earl OF Lonsdale, then cruising in
the West Indies, lay with his yacht at
Kingston, trader of that place sought
him ont and told him tale of The dis
covery on Santa Catalina, by certain
Mr.. Currie, of a cavern, natural or arti-
fetal, filed with boxes and barrels, one
or two of which, on being carefully
opened, proved to contain great quanti-
ties of jewels of various kinds, and coin
chiefly of the Spanish mints of the seven
teenth century. Some various curious
ornaments set with diamonds in an
antique fashion and good many old
Spanish doubloons were exhibited to the
earl as proofs of the story, and he was
strongly urged to take the narrator on
board to go in quest of Mr.. Currie to
Catalina to investigate the matter. He
was assured that Mr.. Currie had been
driven away from the island by some of
the inhabitants under the leadership of
an enterprising Yankee who had got an
inkling Of the existence of the treasure
and was determined not to allow Mr.
Currie to profit by it unless he would
make fair division. The story was
told SO circumstantially, and supported
with such evidence to tempt Lord Ions
dale into making the trip, which he
probably would have done had not the
heart of the Jamaican at the last mo-
ment failed him, SO that he evaded his
engagement to come on board of the
yacht and disappeared. From the dis
patch that now reaches us, it would seem
case so engetically as to get the support
of an English man-of-war in an attempt
| to secure his treasure trove. Should
this prove to be the case, it really is not
improbable that the speculation will turn
out more advantageously than any quest
for Kidd's hidden gains has DONE Nor
gan. who was knighted by Charles III.
for exploits, which in these days would
have sent him to the gallows, died in the
the English service at Jamaica, leaving
a large fortune behind him, and there is
no doubt whatever that he and his men
carried away from Panama an enormous
sum for these days in specie, in jewels
and in church ornaments of gold and
silver.
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