The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-12
WITHOUT COCOS INGoTS
CAPN BROWNS PARTY WRECKED
IN THE SOUTH SEA.
He'll Try Again. fer He Says Hes the Only
lar Who KnsWs Where the 500 ,OOO,.
o Of Peru and Mexico Les Buried
IN Islands Where Many Have Grabbed.

He'll Try Again, fer He Says He's the Only
Man Who Knows Where the 500 ,OOO,.
600 Of Peru and Mexico Lies Buried
IN Islands Where Many Have Grabbed.
SAN FRANCISCO. May i1.-Cspt. James
Brown. who says he is the only man that
knows just where tho 700. 900, 900 Cooos
Island treasure Ia buried. returned to-day
from a vain hunt for It. The captain left
San Francisco or February 2 and went
to Sydney. There he took a schooner
and four men and started to get the treas
ure. Two days out the schooner struck
a reef. A French ship rescued Brown and
Capt. Brown comes from Providence,
R. I. He says that in 1850. whom he was
first mate Of the schooner Sea Foam,
his captain, Henry Smith. Tho treasure
had been discovered and transferred
to another island neal Australia
for safety. Capt. Smith told him. 1t
was expected that tho Sea Foam
would bring it back. but, says Capt.
Brown, everybody on board died through
one mishap or another before the musty
millions could be found.
Brown says he's going after the treasure
again.
Like as not the international Order
Of Buried Treasure Seekers" will eIpel
Capt. Brown at It's neIt meeting. OF
all the men. dreamers and hard headed
~utilitarians who have grubbed for the
5000. 900 pounds Of gold and silver ingots
that lie buried In Cocoe Island this Rhode
Island Yankee apparently is tho first
who has returned with not sven an
Aztec drinking cup.
Cocos Island, known also as Treasure
Island. lies some 800 miles to the west
ward Of Costa Rica and about tho same
distance north OF the equator. It be-
longs TO Costa Rica.
The presence of the treasure il vari-
ously accounted for. but all good be-
levers are agreed that the bulk Of II
was carried TO the island by Bonita. the
pirate Don Pedro Bonita, who after no
early in the seventeenth century turned
his dreadful eye m the west coast Of
South America.
Then there is tho Mary der treasur o.
There was a rebellion In Peru In 1885.
Before surrendering to the insurgents
the Spaniards gathered up all the valua-
mint at Lima and removed them to a bank
at Call 40. From Csllao they were trans
ferred to the British merchant ship Mary
DER, which lay In the harbor. At sig ht
Of the gold and jewels and riches OF the
sanctuary: 40 the story goes, Capt. Thomp:.
sGp and pira h ! STs ss.i Ter fh =sssn %sTSs,. az, ,ss
Peruvian gentlemen In charge Of the
immense treasure and lit out for Cocos
Island. which had been recommended by
the mate as a salubrious treasure resort.
Having landed and cached their loot,
they left the island and straishtwsy were
had been trailing them: Seventeen men
were executed. Capt. Thompson and the
mate were reprieved o. condition that
they should disclose the hiding place OF the
treasure, But once back at Cooos the
prisoners walked their captors all over
the island and at length escaped.
Figuring that Capt. Thompson and the
mate would die Of hunger, the Spaniards
quit the island, but two weeks later a
whaler touching at Cooos for water found
two sad eyed strangers on the beach who
said they had been shipwrecked and had
ioated ashore on a spar. They were
Yellow Sit" fever fever. The Captain n' w ente to o'e csD q.
ada. entrusted u map OF Cocos Island TO
a man named Heating and eventually
was frozen TO death in a snowstorm.
When Heating died he ~bequeathed the
secret to Capt. Hackett. Hackett In turn
bequeathed 1t to Admiral Palliser. COM
mander Of Great Britaln's Pacific squad
ron from 1866 to 1899. Palliser believed
tire story. and because OF his belief no
less than fifteen expeditions sailed for
Cocos, They got nary an ingot.
In 1905 Earl Ftzwllliam, a friend Of the
Admiral's. went to the island and began
blasting at the point where from $50. 0oo.-
900 "a 500, 900, 900 was supposed to lie.
A blast shook down q landslide and seven
Of the party were injured: Lord Fitz-
attempt rather al a Jolly lark than a. q
serious hunt for gold, but 1907 found him
fitting out another. ship, the Attiquin.
The wreoking Of the Attiquin left his
Lordship shy $500, 900. His recovery from
the buried treasure ieyer was very rapid, |