The daily Alaskan., 1907-06-27
Captain Dreams.
Copyright 1907, by E. c. Paroeus.l

 whom he had served l overheard Imuch of thair conversation. The Hin l loo finally died.
 The nume of the captain was Dralnes. A few weeks later people were calling him Dreams. He was a good suiIor, but poor In pocket The native had told him a secret before he died.
 The father of the dying native had been a scD0y u ine great mutiny, and when the rebellion had been stamped out he had to go into hiding aud live his Inst days m the Jungle. When lt brcamc apparent that the English would conquer. a move was made by Inn fne wealthy Hmj0Os to save their l fortunes. The futher was attached to the force of the uubob of MysOre and with certain others removed treasure lo the amount of a million dollars from fnat nrovluce to the coast and thence hv sailing craft Co one of the Lacca- dives. There It was hurieL The to- tbcr could not te&l the son what par Hcular island 1t was, nor did he know whether tnc treasure was recovered after the war la was wounded In battle soon after his return to the coast. and when peace came he became |g fugitive to save himself The treas uvs was taken ashore nt uLght md de-. DusljcG ia a cave.
 l That was the story told to the son, and that was the son who told it to the runtafn. whc story was over twenty ruars old then. You will ask why the son hadn't made a t-y for the treas 1 na In the first pacn, for twenty vpars after the war the English were ! worry vtgllant 0b0ur such things, huT claimed a big share 1f whatever the natives found Again, the son was IDIOT in pocket and d.strusuuI of his | follow men. 1T he ha1 had the money to 1t out an expedition, he would have had to take five 0r six persons into 1-s confidence. and the chalce of his being murdered and despo.Iel was good in- decd. Had he gone tn the owner of any craft and offered half he would have been laughed at He had simply come to the conclusion that the Island was ono Of the Iaccad.ve group, and l ne roulI not say that the treasure had 1 not been removed ye0rs before. He ..ss~n0v hung 0u to his secret and waited and he vas waiting yet when a. v.us stabbed Iu a street brawL
 1 CaDtaf1 DrUlues at once determined an try for the treasure. He had to have money. and he had to hnvc-men, arl in this way ft c1mn to be known .uar rn was or after a million. No
 .., knew whithor be was hound, hut
 -arywhnre he showed up he was r.d.. .u..I and laughed ar Before he left l r.~r he was spoken of as CaptlIN 1 .-rrms. He resfnucd from his saip .,~l.u..rnd native craft and selected N ,rrv. to Dc depended on. He fitted tue
 raft Go fight as well as t0 so5I and he r.f away from Madras in the night and was ont of sight of the colst next morning. He had his all in tue enter 1~fsp and 1t was a case of make or break with h,m.
 The run down to tho group was l ma.Ia nuf that was only tle beginning. l Some or the islands are only sand bars 1r rocky Islets. while others are four 9r five miles in circumference and heavily wooded. They had to be srarrhaI in rotation Tho craft would 1 gn anchored .u the channel between two islands while parties landed on | either to soarcb for cave. This searching took up lots of time. At the 1 ar1 of -hren months only eight of che Islands had been explored and the mrr were readv for mutuy. The pro. visions were gone and a hundred d.t. cerrnt dtsappolrmeuts had soured the tn0nars oF the men They agreed to search the ninth island, hut would go no farther. If nothing was found . tEsre the captain must head for the coast. oven if he had to go in chains.
 Fortune stands hy some men m str1ug. ways. Half the island hao been explored when there came a great
 rare. and a French ship that had been l IIsmastcd end abandoned at sen came driving ln. She furnished plenty of pro.
 visions. and 1t was seen that the sal
 vasp of her cargo would give every | man d good thing, treasure or no treas
 Ure.
 The next day after the wreck drove
 ashore Captain Dreams ser ont to gath
 or some. wild fruit. In their search the men had discovered no animals of any
 sort. The captain had not gone forty
 rods when a goat sprang out of the
 bushes and raced away. He turned al
 tangent to follow her and ten min. utes later found himself at the base of
 a rocky cliff with a cave entrance i've
 feet above the ground. It was the ma bob's treasure house, and the treasure
 was there. He had a portion of tEttl
 him when be returned to the men. JusO
 what the treasure amounted to in dol lars and cents no one outside of the treasure party ever learned, but the
 rarro taken from the wreck sold for
 S4O.OOO at the Portuguese port of Con, Captain Dreams was ready to s0i away and only waiting for the td' when a native craft with a crew o,