The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-28
BROWN AT TER
PIRATE GOLD

Captain James Brown. the veteran
lost treasure seeker, whose expert
ences both here and in the South
Seas, as master of the schooner Her
man, are still fresh in the memories
of Honolulans, has not given up the
fight. He has decided to again search
sor the famous Cocos Island treasure.
Captain Brown, who is getting very
old, has been able to form company
in Boston. He will seek the buried
millions of that historic island where
the treasures of old Lima city, looted
by Captains Thompson and Schmid,
and the buried loot of Bonito, the
pirate, are still supposed to hide deep
beneath the tropical jungle. Compan-
les have been organized before, several
at Victoria, B. c., San Francisco. Sgd
ney, Yokohama and Ecuador and ex-
petitions have sailed from those ports.
British flagship went once from Es-
quimalt with the late Rear Admiral
Palliser in command, ali hands fired
with the desire to search, and Earl
Fitzwilliam chartered a steamer and
went there from London.
A Boston, Mass, paper has the fol-
lowing of Captain Browns latest
quest:
Bullion, Jewels and gold douboons
worth s10.000,0OO, taken in piracy and
buried in the South sea islands, gilt
ter in the tale told by G. M. Faulkner,
treasurer and manager of the Corpor-
alton Security company. He is adve--
Using stock for sale in treasure find
ing expedition to go and get the
ancient plumber, and the South Sea
Trading company is Incorporated un-
der the laws of Massa chusetts.
Captain James Brown, OF Providence
is an ancient mariner of seventy years,
and has known about the treasure for
ffty-seven years, and although he has
known all along where the treasure
was he has not needed the M, ney NJ.
til lately. Now he vans 10 buy a
vessel and go and dig II up.
When Captain Brown was in his
teens he fell in with Captain Henry
Smith of Kingston, Jamaica. the son
of pirate and rlfier of Spanish ships
on the mysterious western coasts OF
South America. Old Smith buried his
ill-gotten gains on Cocos island. off
the coast of Ecuador where scores
have turned up the sands in vain at
tempts to find 1t. The reason they
always failed was that old Smith told
the boys where 1t was, and they had
dug II up and gone over toward Aus
tralia and buried II on a lonely isle.
The Herman came to Honolulu in
1903, Brown in command, with Ogden
Hoffman, Mr.. Sutton and several 9TH
.er San Franciscans aboard, as repre-
sentatives OF the company. The
schooner was libeled here to pay bills
and Hoffman and Luce went back to
San Francisco to get funds. They
returned, the Herman was released
and the party went to Apia. Samoa.
where they got into more trouble
there, the captain was relieved OF
command. and finally when the party
found him trying to sell the vessel,
they sold 1t themselves and all re-
turned home again. Brown was ar
rested on various charges in San Fran
cisco by members of the company, but
the prosecution failed.
Brown claims that when a boy he
ran across a Captain Schmid, son OF
pirate schmid who secreted some of
the Lima loot. Schmid told him of the
treasure on Cocos island. and an ex-
petition was fitted out; and. according
to Brown, they went to cocos island
and found the valuables. But the lust
OF gold prompted the party to play
pirates and capture some of .he gold
laden ships from Australia. That
raised the Cocos island treasure to s12,-
100000. Finally. the officers and crew
had fight, some were killed. then
more were killed until finally only
Captain Schmid, Brown and the stew
ard were left on the beach with a
small boat. They loaded provisions
and many thousands OF dollars and
started away for port A fight oe-
Cured on board and finally only
Brown was left. He buried some OF
his thousands on another island and
finally he reached port and returned
to New England.
And now he wants to find the big
treasure again. claiming he is the
only man living VINO has seen the
whole of 1t.
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