The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-31

Messrs. Lang and Straube. They Jeff
 New York on November 30
 "The party will remain on Cocos Is. land for about six months" said Mate
 Blackman yesterday. "The Costa Rica
 made a special trip to the island, and | will return for the adventurers in the summer. Giessler carried away about forty tons of provisions and supplies 1 and the party is going to make a thorough search of the island. Cocos is one of the most picturesque spots in the Pacific. It is two hundred and
 ninety-eight miles west of Costa Rica and about five hundred miles from Pan-
 anna. I was there about two years ago
 and went ashore. In one part of the is-
 land is a well-sheltered bay with a san
 dy beach about two hundred feet long
 and three hundred feet wide. At the
 end of the beach the hills rise up per
 pendicularly, and at their base is an
 old-fashioned house which was built
 many years ago. $ Far back from the
 house two waterfalls pour down the
 hillsides, splashing, over the rocks and finding a bed ina fresh water river which runs along In front of the build ing and emptiessihto the bay. Years ago the island @aaa penal settlement for convicts from Costa Rica, and the house was leftSstanding from that time. Wild turkeys and pigs still roam about, and they should furnish good eating for Giessler and his party
 Morgan, the pirate, fiourished in the early part of the Century. He footed churches and pubsie tfeasurfes all along the Central American coast and car ried things withua high hand until Eng fish men-oe-war We're sent after him Morgan hid his booty on an island somewhere in the Pacific, and it has al- ways been thought that the cache was on Cocos Island, Improbable stories are still told of the daring pirate's ad- ventures in Costa. Rica, of the rich vaults he rifled, the churches he inva- ded, and the beautiful senoritas he car ried off to his island home
 ''Giessler first came to this coast ten or twelve years ago and on his voyage put into Panama for water. While there he met an old Spanish woman who claimed Morgan as one Of her an cestors, and she told him of the buried treasure. She described the island and gave the captain a chart showing the exact location of the hidden booty. The captain kept the chart determined to visit Cocos Island when he had the means, About two years ago he char tered or bought the sloop Hayseed and started out from Stockton He was nearly shipwrecked in the Gulf of Cali fornia, but finally reached his destina- ton, where he remained until his stores gave out and one of the crew died, With one man he went over to Punta Arenas and there got the concession to establish a colony On Cocos. He made merry over the proposition when met him, and said that he did not expect to do much colonizing, but that he was going to get that treasure. The latter is supposed to be buried at considera- ble depth, and he and his party are go- ing to dig for it. The situation is a rather novel one. The party is hun dreds of miles from civilization, and there is not even another island any where near them. They have only a little boat, which could not live in the ocean, and if the Costa Rica should for get to go back in six months they would be practically dead to the world. I wish old Giessler luck, but there have been so many looking for the treasure that it's existence is now regarded al- most as mythical as the wealth of Monte Cristo."