The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-15

The list was supplied to him by
Lloyds, who had insured the gold,
and who, Ill years ago, paid upon it
as a total, loss. This loss was so Sc
we're a blow to the underwriters at
the time that one at least was ruined
and committed suicide.
Then he showed me charts of previ-
GUS expeditions, showing the areas
that had been searched. The last of
these was carried on as recently as
1900, but then the position of the
ship could not be located.
She was marked on the charts and
her exact position supposedly known,
but the 1900 expedition failed to find
her, and so did the Lyons at first. Cap
tain Gardiner explained this.
"Her position was calculated from
bearings on Shore" he said, ''at the
angle made by two sea marks. Now,
both of these have from time to time
been blown down by gales. One 7
discovered, had been replaced exact
ly, for the hole in which it stood was
found; but the other had to be put
up again by guesswork.
NOW, the misplacing of that by
even few inches would make a very
great deal of difference in taking bear
ings from it three miles out at sea.
That is actually what happened, ami
when eventually found the wreck
she was 100 yards away from the
spot at which the present landmarks
gave us to believe she should be.
after failing to locate her from the
old bearings, l started to dredge n
trench right across the area where l
thought she must be. We had dredg-
ed blindly for some time"
Here the captain refeDred to the
ships log, and continued: "This en-
try says we began pumping with the
twenty-inch pump at 12:45 p. M, and
and found the wreck at A p. m.
The twenty-inch pump referred to
Is d udBHlHCSnI AhuShlhS, NdpaDAS VI
pumping up 100 tons of sand each
hour.
Gas soon as we struck the wreck
put down a large buoy and anchored
her securely. We found that the Lu-
tine lies now under thirty feet Of
sand upon a hard bottom of clay. At
low water there is ten feet of water
over the sand.
"She lies about three miles off the
shore, surrounded by treacherous
shoals and banks, upon a which a
heavy swell is nearly always break
ing"
It is this swell which is the gold
seekers greatest enemy. From the
day the wreck was found, three weeks
since, until today, there has not been
an opportunity of doing any more
work on her.
The method Of working on the
wreck is most interesting. The great
vacuum pump, twenty inches in bore,
sucks up the bottom OF the sea and
pours it into what appears to be a
giant bird-cage fixed on a lighter
This is the sieve, the particular de-
sign Of the captain himself, and |
through the meshes 1t is impossible
10 pass Q half-sUvereign,
There is not only gold in the Lu-
tine, but silver and coin, and much Of |
this has been seen. There is an old
Tristan fisherman in Terschelling who
worked as a diver in the salvage oper-
atoms in the ffties.
He is 80 years old now, and has
begged Captain Gardner to let him
20 down again to show him where the
is. But diving is not an oc-
ogenarian's work.
This old fellow told the captain that
when he saw the silver more than
lalf a century ago the great ingots
we're welded by the action of the wa
err into masses weighing many tons.
But Captain Gardiner is not disheart-