The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-11
TREASURE SEEKERS
'NOBLEMEN" ON HERMAN ARE
WELL KNOWN HERE.
Latest Theory Makes a Wrecked and
Valuable Hull The object of the
Voyage.

The English noblemen who have been
variously reported to sit in the cabin
of the treasure trove schooner Herman,
are both of them, we'll known to Ha-
wall. One of them indeed spent most OF
his life here, having been born in the
islands and living here until some four
teen years ago. This is Frank Sharratt,
son of a kamaaina and cousin to r.
w. Hebron of this city. The latter is
taking Sharratt on q sharking expedi-
ton tomorrow.
The other "nobleman" is a brother of
Southard Hoffman, of this city. Both
the gentlemen are reticent about any
other object in the trip of the mys-
terious schooner than a mere pleasure
trip to Southern seas. One thing has
been acknowledged which might serve
as a clue to Sherlock Holmes, and that
is that there are no wheelbarrOws
aboard. Further deponents say not.
Mr.. Sharratt has only recently bios
somed out as a yachtsman, and it is
thought his sudden liking for a pleas
ure trip has something more behind it
than a love for a wet sheet and flow
ing sea- The gentlemen have talked
with many friends here but have inn
parted nothing. The general impression
is that while Captain Brown has some
thing up his sleeve and that all hands
purpose, nothing is being said about it
at present, and nothing will unless the
trip is successful.
Should hidden caches be found or 9TH
er treasure trove successfully exploit
ed, the Herman, the name suggests
nimble feats of acquiring coins from
nowhere, will be loaded with pieces of
eight, ducats, moidores and what not,
and everyone will come back with flying
1.
time" victors. Should nothing come OF
it, the members will have had a good
trip, possibly an adventurous one, and
having made no boasts beforehand, will
have left no opening for the laugh be-
ing turned against them. The crew
were picked carefully for the cruise and
it is not thought that Captain Brown
is going out on a pleasure jaunt at his
time of life. Not that the grizzled old
salt is getting decrepit but merely be-
cause his dreams of sudden wealth are
likely to be dispelled by him unless
there was something tangible at the
bottom of it all.
The Herman stops at Tahiti next.
Where she goes then is not public i'm
formation. 1t may be round the Horn
or into Antarctic Seas. The members
of the trip bid their friends and rela-
tives farewell for an indefinite period
of six months to year. The theory
evolved by close friends of the adven-
turers is that Captain Brown has
knowledge of a wreck of some descrip-
tion piled up on a reef surrounding
some island of the northern archipela-
go. To what age or period the suppo-
sitious argosy belonged is not even
limited at. The whole trip is invested
with a mysterious halo of
Fifteen men on a dead mans chest
Sing YohO! and a bottle or rum"
1t is adventure pure and simple, and
whether fabulous fortunes await the
Adventures in the rotten ribs of some
old galleOn of the main whether a pi-
rates ill-gotten hoard is to be replev-
ined from it's haunting cradle of the
skeletons of those who dug the hole in
which it was buried, there is a fasci-
nation about the schooner and her triI
that has made the vessel and her vOy-
age the talk of a good many people who
will eagerly await her return. The Her
man expects to sail on Saturday.