The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-09
HERMAN SEEKS
BURIED TREASURE
Schooner Now in Port VIII
Try TO Secure Many
Millions. s -


up at Fishmarket wharf. About her some
odd things are said. Her skipper is Cap
tain Brown. a white haired, seventy three
year old man. Captain Brown has sailed
all over the world, has been In naval
fights, mutinies. and all sorts of dare
devil work at sea, yet at his great age
he is now as fine built man az one would
wish to see. His eyes twinkle when one
asks where the Herman is going and what
her mission is. But his replies are mixed
though interesting. And yet on the
memory of this strange old sea captain
a big eastern syndicate is stalking thou
sands of dollars and expects to get in
return millions
the schooner are expected to get all this
treasure on a small island in the south
Pacific. The treasure is supposed to be
buried on Cocos Island and is variously
estimated at from $500 600 to $50, 200
in money. bullion and gold utensils. In
one excavation was buried 100000 pounds
of silver and silver dollars: in another
cave 733 bars of gold. each by ; two
inches thick, well as beJeweled
swords, precious stones, and several ket
ties filed with gold.
The story of how this immense amount
wild and woolly one and has It's origin in
the days of the pirates. When the pirates
in the West Indies were driven out by
English war vessels in the year 1920 they
sailed their black craft around the Horn
to find greener seas In the Pacific In
1921, when the Mexicans threw oft the
Spanish yoke. the rich Spaniards In
Mexico loaded their wealth on Spanish
galleons and started for Manila the pirates
captured them and buried the treasure on
Cocos island. Then they went back
around the Horn to the West Indies to
secure what they had hidden there. Mean
time two Of the crew, Thompson and
Chapel Engiishmen, landed at Valparaiso,
worked their way back to England and in
formed the British Government. A man
of-war was sent out, the treasure in the
West Indies found and dug up and all the
pirates with the exception OF two-efghty
in number-hung in Jamaica The mer
chants of Liverpool subsequently, charter
ed small vessel which started for Cecos
island, but after vain search in the
Pacific they could not find it.
There have been score more at
tempts within the past half century to
secure the buried treasure of Cocos ISL
and but none have been successful Be
sides the Herman expedition. another Is
on the way, and a certain August Gissler.
who holds 100 year concession from the
of Costa RIGA to develop the
effort to head off the Herman expedition.
Gissier was in San Francisco at the time
the schooner left that port and as soon as
he heard of her destination he started for
Costa RIGA to get gunboat to go out
and keep her away from the island, The
Herman's party heard this last news on
their arrival here yesterday and will now
wait here until the Coptic arrives on the
10th from San Francisco to see If the east
ern syndicate sends any news of the af-
fair
Besides Capt. James Brown. the head
of the party and whose memory is ex-
pected to tell them where he helped to
bury the treasure. after it had been once
dug up. many years ago, there are five
on the Herman. One is a doc
tor, another a lawyer. one man learned
in mining affairs, and the other two al
though sailing under American names
are said to be English nobfernen.
Capt. Brown stoutly maintains that his
vessel is on simply a pleasure cruise and
that he has no idea of looking for, treas
ure. but he says that if he meets the
Costa Riean gunboat he will very likely
hitch lire to her and tow her around
the world with him.
Many old salts along the water front
visited the sailors on the Herman last
night. Most of them were skeptical about
any treasure being found yet from what
the men on the Herman said there is
no doubt that the mysterious men who
eat off the little table in the cabin and
spend the days at sea seated in coy
deck chairs with long Havanas between
their teeth and a dreamy far away look
in their eyes are thinking of treasure. |
They say nothing to the sailors, yet the 1
sailors have formed their own opinions |
and have an idea of what the equipment |
carefully slowed away in the vessels hold |
is for. The crew Is signed for year
and the schooner is provisioned for that |
length of time.
After the arrival of the Coptic the Her
man will sail for Tahiti and then go off !
10 the treasure island.