The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-11-11


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gAs@ weeks and sail
#P - . away across the
skS= blue Pacific into
- I the heart of the
II b most fascinating
- romance of all
pirate story.
Capt. Frede-
rick Hackett, in
n command of the
N, claims to be the only man In
n No world who knows the secret of
n, hurled treasure of Cocos island.
ia dams on this expedition to lift the
ia wealth plundered by sea royers
Y III early part of the last century
III hidden on the island in cave,
II, s,act location of which has been
and for which adventures have
Etsht in vain for many years.
Il Ii Is equipped with hydraulic min
machinery and has sufficient pro-
saDs to remain for a year II nee
tary on the island, which lies 800
Saass 81 the western coast of Central
|rs,ica. That score of former ex-
8Hions have proved failures does
discourage him. The treasure
EAnters who have gone before have
tended upon pick and shovel. He
Be the first prepared to use
lraulic mining methods. Earth
sakes, he says, have shaken down
tslides upon the treasure cave and
Aanged the topography of the island.
S|A Will wash the earth away with
cams Of water powerful enough to
Hot trees and burst rocks asunder.
Is confident Of success.
when return to the United
s,Iea, says Captain Hackett, Il shall
Bio the entire Cocos island treasure
tened down beneath the matches OF
Eesperus."
Il he story Of Cocos island makes
bert Louis Stevenson's Treasure
and seem true in comparison, so
sh stranger are the facts OF this
III romance Of buried treasure than
dream.adventures, highly colored
81 taey are, wrought by the, imagina-
sa Of the novelist. The marvellous
A has its beginning In the days
ahsn savage buccaneers, flying skull.
Sasrossbones at their mast-heads,
lllied the Spanish main and plum
Ted tall galleons In the high seas
81 fairly glitters from beginning to
i with a fairy wealth of doubloons
oesofeight, louis d'ors, moidores
Iuns and double guineas. In Its
bTded episodes, blind-folded victims
lE the plank, bronzed and turbaneo
Rtthroats swarm over the bulwarks
captured ships and lay about then
W cutlass and dragon pistol, see
cues are strung up at yard-arms
rms are sacked and looted, vessels
left to weller to their ruin In flame
ssM smoke. 1t centers about a lonely
and, palm-shadowed in tropic seas
aereon lies buried a treasure beyond
dreams of Monte Cristo. 1t rings
~ the clash OF battle on the islant
aches and with the death cries of tn
sea murdered that they might neve
lay the treasures secret hiding
aee, Finally it hands down from tn
of time Of romance to prosai'
aern days a great golden myster.
alch, like siren beckoning through
IN Years from purple southern seas
lured men to ruin and death.
according to well-authenticated &C
aats, s23.000000 in pirate treasur
ourled on Cocos island. OF this sun
AeoO,0o0 in money, bullion AM
aa ls supposed to have been hiddel
M WI by Benito Bonito, the last Q
great pirates who. even after La
y mad passed away. kept alive upo:
ocean the lawless traditions Q
Sllanois. Pierre LIE Grand, Roch
sallano, England, Hawkins and 81
sary Morgan.
sae remaining 100000 is sal
ave been concealed in the sam
~ N 1888 by Bugs" Thompson
q Ronito's old pirate crew, Wf1
sa away with the treasure froE
DIN aarbor Of Callao when the COY
anent authorities of Peru entruste
sooafd his vessel to save 1t fro1
lure by revolutionists. 1t consfste
loney from the public treasury. II
y OF gold from Inca mines, plat
alees, ornaments and golden sta
eionging to the churches and CT
safals Of Lima.
saptain Hackett Is fourth in whs
ae christened the royal line {
holders of the golden secret
Island. This secret has bee
ssd down In sort of lineal d.
y nom Thompson. The forme
~ freebooter for years carrie
w 2 chart of Cocos island draw
~ piece Of yellow parchmel
alng the exact location of the cay
Falch his own and Bonito's trea
hoard is hidden. He gave tn
. % a fisherman of st. John