The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-03

up by small boats and landed in Kingston and Dutch privateer by the name of Warrington hur ried in pursuit. The record of what transptred during the chase and the fight Is not clear-is even too vague to be pertinent, but month later Warrington sailed into what is New York harbor and reported that he had fought the Santa Marta twice and been worsted, but had followed her to the Windward Passage, as it is now known and north to the islands bearing the Fortune Islands, given them by reason of this very happening.
 Here the crew cached the treasure, they could not enter any important port and account for themselves and could not enter a small port and dispose of their hoard. It is positive that in these islands the cache made, because when the Santa Marta reached Puerto el Principe shortly thereafter she discharged In the Fortune Islands was the only place she could have sent the treasure ashore
 The governor of Puerto el Principe was 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, was found near Cape Maysi. The men were never heard of but, as they were quarreling and fighting among themselves In Puerto el Principe 1t is logical to suppose that there a second nutiny with much bloodshed, that the ship fired and that those who did not jump into the burned to death.
 Two other galleons were robbed that same year by mutinous crews, but the treasures were safely landed by the mutneers one crew at Lisbon and the other at Genoa. These must not be confused with the Santa Marta affair.
 The Fortune Islands are quite small, are in- habited almost solely by Bahama blacks are aI- most out of touch with the world though but four days sail from New York and from Nassau or Havana. From the charts it may be seen that there Is but one spot where the Santa Marta could have anchored to put ashore so heavy cargo, and there ought to be little difficulty in locating the cache the low-lying island. So far ! as know, there has never been any attempt made at recovery.
 There many, many aluring sunken treas ures on both coasts Many of these are so fa- miliar 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 ican coast.
 Admiral Francis Drakes Marigold carried the bulk of his spells up to the time of her loss on the west coast near Piedranegra.
 In 1897 Admiral De Pontis, with a combined fleet 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 were intercepted by the English and one was blown up by a shot into her magazine and sank in the harbor; another went ashore near by; and third was beached Cisne Gay. 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-caed 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 some months ago at advanced age he carried the knowledge of a number of treasuretroyes the richest of which Is unnamed galleon in a Venezuela harbor
 Before leaving the subject Of the buccaneers another sunken treasure should be cited. In 1686 a Captain Phipps of the British navy learned of a sunken buccaneer vessel with great treasure aboard the shore or near the Tortugas and