The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-15

dissuade them from putting the plan
into execution, but they persisted and
sailed away the next day
In about two weeks the sailboat hove
in sight. and when she was beached, an
emaclated, wounded wretch crawled
/ out, the sole survivor of the crew that
had sailed away so confidently two
! weeks before.
| Before he died he told how the rascals
had succeeded in reaching the coast
+ safely, and with little difficulty had
found a small vessel suited to their
| purpose.
| They tried to get away with it in the
night, but the owner discovered them
and attempted to interfere, with there
suit that he paid for his vigilance with
knife slash which settled him in a
minute. But the pirates did not get
far away before they were overhauled,
taken back to port and every one of
them was hanged, except the teller of
the tale, who had escaped, but had
been mortally wounded in doing So
The carpenter and sailor prospected
daily about the ravine and the beach,
but having nothing except their knives
with which to work they made little
progress. Still they picked out of the
crevices a considerable amount of gold,
One day they borrowed a Ratchet
from the old German and penetrated
the ravine which ran up the-side of one
of the mountains. Some distance up
the slope they cleared the underbrush
and found the ledge to be composed of
sole, rotten stone impregnated with
gold in large quantities. In fact, the
entire mountain seemed to be streaked
with the precious metal.
As they worked however, their lives
We're in constant danger for the noun
tain side seemed to be alive with poi
sonous reptiles, scorpions, tarantulas-
in fact, owing to these pests they were
fain to give up all attempts to pene-
trate farther, and contented themselves
with working about the foot of the
mountain. They remained on this is
land nearly two months before they
Were taken off by a passing vessel
which stopped to fiji her water casks.
Shortly after their return to the 18TH
mus the sailor was taken down with
isthmus fever and died. The carpenter
then took the gold, and, keeping his Sc
cret, set sail for his home, where he
bought a hotel. He intended some
time to return to the island, but one
winter day he fell on the ice, receiving
an injury that resulted in paralysis,
and a year later he also died. But be-
fore he did so he told to friend who
had nursed him all the details of his
strange adventures in the Southern Pa
cifc, drew a plan Of the island, de-
scrbed its location and topography and
gave such an accurate description that
any one familiar with the coast could
have no difficulty in verifying the
statement
The carpenters friend did not survive
him long, but before he died he likewise
related the carpenters story to cap
tain who was familiar with the waters
of the Southern Pacific. And now an
other expedition has been fitted out for
the mysterious isle Of gold.
But wiseacres shook their heads and
already belief has grown among the
timld and indeed, more than the tilnid,
that a curse is associated with the isle
and the treasure and that death and
doom inevitably follow the pursuit of
the secret.-Chicago Times Herald.