The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-12-30
OF
THE HERMAN
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! ably to their having been Swallowed too
| closely by the owners or their emissa-
ries. Just why they had not been apt
pretended and punished is a crcum-
stance difficult to explain except on the
hypothesis that the Peruvians them
selves were culpable i'm the matter, and
that their own title was bad or doubt
| full
1t is said that a large number of Eng
liss sovereigns form part of the hoard
and perhaps represent government
funds improperly mingled with it. If
such be the case it will account for the
interest we found during our cruise is
still taken by British officials in the
missing millions.
Between 1921 and 1850 this lost trea-
sure undoubtedly lay buried on CocOs
island, and during these years the first
! Captain Schmidt and his Comardes
finding no opportunity to retake it,
gradually died off, leaving the secret
of the location to their heirs These
heirs. according to Drawn, were none
other than the men ne happeden to
fall i'm and sail with from the Island of
Jamaica in 1850. Captain Schmidt was
the son of the first Captain Schmidt
and was then bound for Cocos Island
with his company i'm order to dig up
the treasure and carry it off to some
secluded spot as a first step to after
wards dividing and enjoying it at their
leisure.
And Drawn repeatedly stated in the
most solemn and emphatic way that
he accompanied Schmidt and Company
to Cocos Island and that they, and he,
did dig up the treasure and sail away
with it.
THAT is the reason" added b., that
all these searchers on the Island since
81 have failed. We dug it up and car
ried it off, and no one will ever find
any of it now on Cocos Island. unless
they turn up a few old coins which we
may have scattered in our haste"
After getting the precious cargo
aboard, the vessel sailed far out into
the Pacific and finally into large
group of islands, some of which were
entirely uninhabited. On one of the
latter Captain Brawn's companions
landed and reburied the booty. AS to
the continuation and tragic conclusion
of their adventure, Captain Drawn was
reticent for some time, divulging it at
last by degrees and under a pledge of
secrecy which he afterwards removed.
And the following is the first anthem
tic published account of the last cruise
of the mysterious missing schooner the
Black Witch, as told by one who
claimed to be a member of her crew.
When they had safely reburied all
the Cocos Island treasure, their i'm
mense wealth said, B., only seemed to
whet his shipmates appetite for more
And so with the overpowering lust of
gold i'm their hearts, they made for
Australia, lured there by reports of the
fabulous amount of precious metal that
was being taken from the Australian
placers. They reached Australia in
1929, and found large part OF the
community mad with excitement and
utterly reckless in their management
and methods. Immence cargoes of
| dust. bullion and soon after, coin were
on their way to England, and in some
cases the treasure ships were uncon-
voyed.
Brawn's pirate friends found the date
2 set for the sailing of two of these ships
} with valuable cargoes. They managed
= to get aboard each vessel men of like
kidney to themselves. This accom-
? plished, there was little difficulty i'm
, stonrinp and canturing the treasure
b CARRIERS and stil Hess difficulty lin
= disnosing of the vessels and their
. beInIess crews after the cargoes had
baen transferred 70 the RIack witch.
All sail was then set a second time
e for their treasure island, where a sec
+ ond landing was made and the stolen
gold added IN the treasure hoard
And then followed a neriod of drink
+ ING fighting. slaughter artfuI Doison-
inc and gradual extermination-a fiji
end to sucb men. and of deeds like
+ tbairs tba customarv seouel Rrawn
claimed that he himself tool, no mart I'm
? tbe shedding of blood except i'm self
defense and that he opposed all the
niracv and the violence as far as he
-, dared hut his own life was ever at
stake and to save If no had to acuuiesce
, i'm , oood daaI Of what went On Can