The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-05-04

up by small boats and landed in Kingston and a
Dutch privateer by the name OF Warrington hur-
ried in pursuit The record OF what transpired
during the chase and the fight is not cear-s
even too vague to be pertinent, but month later
Warrington sailed into what is now New York
harbor and reported that he had fought the Santa
Marta twice and been worsted, but had followed
her to the Windward Passage it is known,
and north TO the Islands now bearing the name
Fortune Islands. given them by reason OF this
very happening
Here the cached the treasure. they
could not enter any important port and account
for themselves and could not enter small port
and dispose of their hoard 1t is positive that
in these islands the cache made. because
when the Santa Marta reached Puerto ell Principe
shortly thereafter she was discharged. In the
Fortune Islands the only place she could have
sent the treasure ashore.
The governor of Puerto e Principe about
to arrest the crew suspicion of their having
committed piracy. when they put to sea, and later
the hulk. burned to the waters edge, found
near Cape Maysi The men never heard OF,
but, they were quarreling and fighting among
themselves in Puerto ell Principe, 1t is logical to
suppose that there was a second mutiny with
much bloodshed that the ship was fired and that
those who did not jump into the were burned
to death.
Two other galleons robbed that same year
by muttnous crews. but the treasures were safely
landed by the mutneers at Lisbon and
the other at Genoa. These not be confused
with the Santa Marta affair.
The Fortune Islands quite small. are In
hahited almost solely by Bahama blacks. al
most out of touch with the world though but four
days sail from New York and one from Nassau
or Havana. From the charts it may be seen that
there is but spot where the Santa Marta
could have anchored to put ashore heavy
cargo, and there ought to be little difficulty in
locating the cache on the low-lying island So
as l know, there has never been any attempt
made recovery.
There many, many alluring sunken treas
of ia
mfar as to need but the merest mention.
Large sums and great effort have been expend-
ed to recover the millions California gold OF the
old Golden Gate, definitely located on the Mex
lean coast
Admiral Francis brakes Marigold carried the
bulk OF his spos up to the time of her loss on
the west coast near Piedranegra.
In 1857 Admiral De Points, with combined
feet of royal ships and colonial privateers at.
tackled, captured and sacked Cartagena and de-
parted in two sections the last ships being the
treasure bearers, They intercepted by the
English and one blown up by shot into her
magazine and sank in the harbor, another went
ashore by: and third was beached on
Cisne Cay. TO recover the treasure. location can
be effected through a study OF the British ad-
miralty records, and at least one of the three
should lie in shallow water
The so-called Captain George B. Boynton by
all odds the greatest adventurer of modern times
would have made the records Of Drake Morgan
and De Ruyter look pale and sickly had he lived
IN the good old days Until his death In Brooklyn
months ago at advanced age he carried
the knowledge OF number of treasure-troves
the richest OF which is an unnamed galleon in a
Venezuela harbor
Before leaving the subject of the buccaneers
another sanken treasure should be cited In 1856
a Captain Phipps of the British navy learned OF
sunken bucoaneer vessel with great treasure
aboard the shore near the Tortugas and