The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-13
place a man would think of visiting unless

place man would think of visiting unless
he had business there
One day the American lowered a boat
from the schooner hired a couple of ne
groes from the shore and made them row
MIN to another islet about four miles
away. According to the story which the
negroes told on their return he walked
straight up to a lone palm tree on the
lSlet, measured a distance by PAGES to the
southeast after consulting a chart, and
tnen made them dig, morning, noon and
nlght, all around large circle he marked
he foamed at the mouth with passion and
threatened nf46s them with his rife.
found big sea chest so heavy that the
three of them could hardly drag it to the
ooat. Ihey roWed back to the schooner.
ABOARD the American weighed anchor and
sailed away north
There is much speculation In West
Calcos and throughout the Bahamas as to
who the American was, what he found
and how he learned that it was there
It It IS supposed that he got a big pirate
ne secured the famous hoard of Capt.
Kidd. But nobody has ever found out
anything about the matter.
| One of the queereSt West Indian treas
ure stories was told by the skipper of a
Grand Cayman schooner in Kingston, ia
maica. The story is too wildly improb-
able for any writer of fiction, but its alb
solute truth can be attested to by hun
dreds of people in Jamaica and Grand
Cayman.
A bark had been wrecked on a reef near
the Cayman islands. and the skipper had
taken his schooner there to hunt for sal
wage. While his men were busy on the
bark he looked over the side of his vessel
and saw about eight feet below the wa
ter, on shelving ledge of the reef,
curious yellow CLEAN.
He thought it was a piece Of copper
sSe fo and told 0ne OF his men vito to
his hands full of gold coin-Spanish
doublOonS and pieces eight dating back
to the early days of the conquistadores.
gold
All day the crew dived for it, and
when they had skinned the place bare
they found they had over 1000 gold
pieces, besides few score of silver coins,
all Spanish The skipper showed several
of the coins to prove his story They
preservation. He sold the lot afterward
for nearly O.00O.
How the coins came on the reef no
body knows. A hundred explanations
have been suggested, but none of them
quite meets the case.
There is an Englishman now living in
a fishing hamlet in Kent, England. who
treasure in the West Indies.
Formerly he was a colonel in the Brit
ish army and served with distinction in
several wars. Late in life he caught the
treasure hunting fever, and sold all he
had in order to fit out a yacht and hunt
for hoard buried, SO legend says, by
ManSvelt, the famous buccaneer on An
guilla island. He searched for years,
until in the end disappointment turned
his brain.
In the British West Indies, more es-
pecially in Barbados and Grenada, large
holes dug in the earth apparently for no
purpose are frequently seen. Inquiring
the reason of them, the reply is that they
for buried money
1t is a curious fact that a West Indian
| negro rarely. If ever sets about look
| ing for treasure of his own accord. An
obeahman or witch doctor comes to him
and says:
"Obi. the all-seeing, has told me in