The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-18
IN SEARCH OF A
TREASURE ISLAND
Bv $. S. Blake. Of San Francisco.

half-crazed r1f1ans glared threateningiy
at one another, ready TO spring at eacn
others tfroats- Treaehery shouted
someone. The quarterback IS afteT
our share, mates.
That gave direction TO the leashed
passions, and pandemonium broke loose
In the midst OF the shooting and stab
hing lamp was smashed. and IN tree
the flames ran racing up the hang1rlgs
Not a hand stopped in rs ath-dealiIlg
work TO check them, and when dayiignr
CIT through the curling smoke the
schooner lay a srnouldeTlng wreck on
the beach and only three survivors look
ed down upon the awful sceTle-tfle
captain, Brown. and the steward.
There was brly one means OF escape
FOR the survivors. and that was the
| iong-boat, which had been sheived on
| the beach, She was loaded with what
remained of the provisions on shore,
some sixty thousand pounds OF the
treasure was dumped into her, and the
three adventures pushed on tor AIS
tralia. the nearest land
What followed would form the basis
Of ofie of the most thrilling nelo-
dramas ever written OF course, no one
knows what really happened IN that
little cockIe-shell dipping over the wa
i ters of the broad Pacific Only Brown
IS alive TO tell the tale and he wont
say much The few sentences he grudg-
i11qlv Yields nave to do with lessenlng
food and scant water; with gradually IN
creasing fever and reckoning madness
So naturally enough came the day,
the black day, when two were killed
/ and only one survived Brown refuses
to talk about it. but under the pressing
questions of the members OF the syndI-
cate, who insisted on knowing the whole
of his story before they would embark
/ in the treasure-hunt. he stated that me
/ captain. crazed with suffering, killed the
steward and then turned on him, where
upon Brown shot hun IN seif-detence-
1 He was then alone IN the boat, and sole
owner OF the twelve millions OF treas
IRE.
Brown eked out the biscuits and few
/ spoonfuls of water: and thus managed
/ TO proIonp his waning life and TO reach
the Australian coast There he buried
I all but pocketfu1 OF the three hundred
thousand dollars he had brought from
I the island. and made into the interior,
/ where he obtained work in mine
/ Later on he embarked IN sheep-raIsIng.
! From time 70 time he drew Judiciousy
on his buried treasure and invested the
money in business, till finally he was
i accounted a very successful speculator
with a good round sum al his command.
4 He took advantage of this reputation
TO dig up the rest of his hoard and san
for his home IN Providence, Rhode Is
land, where for years he continued to
live IN good circumstances.
The gale that swept away the rem
nants OF Browns sixty thousand pound:
OF pirate loot came up during the pre-
Eiude to the late Spanish-American War
With his hlibustering blood afanne. a
the glowing prospects offered at ina
time IN the Antilles, the old sea-royer
with others. invested all his remaining
money In ortftting two privateers- Tn
u. S. Government did the rest by con
fscatin0 the vessels. The members O
the treasure-hunt syndicate satistiei
themselves that Brown had somehow