Arizona republican., 1892-01-05

HUH uitai thiuB it. He then heaped up the earth over the five casks in the form of graves, judging that no French habitant, whose rever- ence for the dead is proverbial, would molest them, and at each apparent grave he placed stone, to carry out the illusion.
 At dawn the pirate sentinels saw the man-of-war sailing through the western passage and heading toward their re- treat. Sail was quickly set, and the schooner escaped through the eastern outlet. The storm of the previous night still ragged wild and fierce Tn, sea was dashed to fury. Tho waves ran high, striking the vessel with resistless force, throwing her on sunken reef. With despairing shrieks and prayers to the God whose laws they had outraged, her wretched crew were launched into eter- nity. All were thought to have per ished.
 Twenty years passed, a new genera tion grew up, and the story of Manning and his exploits was we'll nigh forgotten. Then, as now, trading vessels from Nova Scotia frequented the coast to supply the scattered settlements with the necessa- ries of life, receiving in return furs and fish.
 In the year 1880 the captain of one of these vessels happened to be in an inn in Halifax talking over his summer voy- ages, while smoking pipe with friend, They observed that an old man, sitting at table near them slipping his whisky and water slowly, appeared highly inter ested in their conversation.
 When Captain Black left the inn the old man followed him into the street and eagerly questioned him about the Labra- dor coast. Before they parted he made the captain promise to take him to the Bay of the Dead the following spring. Captain Black had harbored there once during a great storm. In the spring, when the warm rays of the sun had loosed the icy barriers of the coast, Cap tain Black, mindful of his promise, sought the mysterious old man, but found him dying of fever. Amid the rawlings of delirium the astonished and horror stricken captain was told tale of murder, bloodshed and robbery on the high seas, and of the hidden treasure of the Bay of the Dead.
 Manning (for the dying man was none other than the notorious ex-pirate), with blasphemous curses foretold death and destruction to any one who should at tempt to secure the ill gotten wealth. In a paroxysm of fear and despair he died unrepentant, unabsolved. The captain was too bold man to be deter red from seeking the treasure by a dying mans curse, so he immediately set sail for the Bay of the Dead
 The weather being foggy and the coast dangerous, he approached with the ut most caution. Within a few hundred yards of the coveted goal, the burying ground, strange fainness came over him, his limbs refused to bear him. Eager to secure the treasure, which had from long breeding become his sole ob- ject in life, he with great effort drag ged himself to the bow of the vessel. At that moment the omiuous words, Death, death, deathl" sounded in his startled ears.
 A mortal fear overspread him, and he had barely sufficient strength to order the crew to put about. The sailors. wondering at the strange conduct of their captain, obeyed just in time to pre- vent striking a sunken reef. Among the crew of Captain Blacks vessel on this occasion was a lad of some thirteen years or age, Ricketts by name. The captain had made rather pet of this boy, and during the long voyage had related to him the story of Manning. Thirty years passed, and no further attempt was made to wrest the wealth from its ghostly keeper. In the year 1860 Rick etts, then in middle age and living in the United States, was haunted man.
 In dreams and in his waking hours the apparition of Manning followed him, urging him to go to the Bay of the Dead and secure the treasure. Old inhabitants of the coast say that in that year Qs60) a strange vessel flying the American flag sailed into the harbor of the Bay of the Dead. The captain, whose name was Ricketts, hired fishing boat, and while ostensibly engaged in fishing operations spent great pat of his time in explor- ing the shore and digging. After a month spent in this mysterious way he departed, returning, however, the fol- lowing summer.
 Again he was watched, and from the burial ground at the Bay of the Dead was seen to unearth large wooden box or cask, which he carried off with him.
 Again, 80 late as 1880, q strange Amer ican vessel paid mysterious visits to the bay. Their object was and is subject of endless conjecture among the fisher folk.
 There are now many graves at the Bay of the Dead, and the good people of the coast, with their great respect for the dead, disturb them not to search for hid den treasures.
 It cannot be asserted positively that the treasure of Manning has been torn from its hiding place and the spirit of the murdered negro released from his long and faithful vigil. But it is sure and certain fact that dweller under the cliffs of the bay has of late, without ap- parent effort, become very wealthy, and rumor hints of treasure trove. Such is the story of Manning as related by na- tive of that bleak and desolate coast, and though the mellowing hand of time has thrown halo of romance over the pie turesque Bay of the Dead and the deeds done there, the main facts are well es- tablished.-Maud Ogilby in Boston Transcript.