New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-14

: slaughter at the hands Of the Wild Irish.
| who Knocked them on the head with BAT
! tie axes or stripped them naked and left
| them 10 die OF the cold. Many were Span
/ ish gentlemen. richly clad. with gold chains
and rings, and the common sailors and SOL
diers had each bag OF ducats dashed 10 his
wrist when he landed through the surf.
They were slain for their treasure, and on
one strip of Sligo an English officer counted
eleven hundred bodies"
I THE FLoRENcINs TREASURE.
| The Armada wrecks seem to have pro-
, vided scant pclNngs. and the few cannon.
the gold coins and silver candlesticks repre-
sent but an insignificant fraction Of the
large sums expended In successive diving
and dredging enterprises to recover their
alleged cargoes; and in a letter under date
OF April %, 1910. the Duke Of Argyll writes
to Mr.. Paine as follows:
1.-THE galleon was the ship furnished by
Tuscany as her contribution TO the Armada.
She was called the Forencls. or City OF
Florence. and was commanded by Captain
Pereira, a Portuguese. and had crew
largely Portuguese on board. We have
found specimens OF his plate with the
I Pereira arms engraved on the plate Dor
der. She carried breech loading guns on
! her upper deck, and you Will see one q
them at the Blue Coat School now removed
/ from London to the suburbs.
! ION the lower deck were some guns GOT
/ from Francis 7 at the Battle Of Pavis. !
! have a very fine one at Inverary Castle
got from the wreck in l740. Diving with
diving bell was discontinued on account 81
/ civil troubles Pereira foolshly took part
/ in local clan disputes, helping the Mac
/ Leans of Null against the MacDonalds
| One Of the MacDonalds. when a prisoner
, on board, Is said to have blown up the
vessel as she was warping out OF harbor.
IT found an old plan and located the
| Spanish wreck from the plan, but only
sent a man down once from A yacht
! There was little obtained during the last
divings. cannon balls. a few pieces OF
plate, small articles-about 70 dollars. etc
Yours faithfully,
"Kensingtop Palace. ARGYLL
/ The richest haul OF any lies In the haroor
| OF Vigo where, In the year l1o2 vast
! treasure feet, conveyed by French men-ot'
war. and laden with three years tribute
from the mines of Mexico and Peru, and
totalling S4OOoooec. was sunk by equity old
/ Sir George Rock, who dealt staggering
blow at the supremacy of Spain. Equipped
with the most up-to-date contrivances
company headed by Pine, an italian, is pre-
pairing hopefully to recover some part OF
! this colossal hoard OF gold and silver.
THE LOOT OF LIMA.
! Follows the story of the unavalling search
for buried treasure on the bleak island OF
| Trinidad. the poor results on Cocos lslano'
both localities presumed to be thickly so"n
with the loot OF Lima upon the downfall OF
Spanish rule, and a chapter each for ths
wrecked warship Lutine, from which re"
thousand sterling was salvaged from ths
sands Of zuyder Zee. and the Thetis' from
which BY Incredible eXertions and ingen-
uitv CAPTAIN Dickinson actually recovereo
ell but one-sixteenth Of it's $4,000 specie
The conflicting legends of III Dorado are
not overlooked. and learned treatise OF
the use of divining rods is followed ny
some entertaining biographical sketches o.
famous pirates OF latter days. NOT inc
least satisfactory figure of pirate is tna'
OF Captain Bartholomew Roberts tnat
tall. black man. nearly forty years olu'
whose favorite toast was Domination 20
him who ever lives TO wear halter was
snffed out in an action with king shlp'
and the manner OF his life and melodra-
matte quality OF his death suggest mat 10
he mentioned herein as worthy OF a place
beside Blackboard himself Roberts mas
hesr overlooked by buried treasure legeno'
and this IS odd for he was figure 10 IN
spire such tales His hanboyant career
opened I'm l7l9. and was successful unlh
the British man-of-war Swallow overhauled
him IN the African coast. His bographer'
csp,aIn Charles Johnson, writing WINE
the episode was less than decade Gu
and when the facts were readily opIalh'
HE. left us this fine picture OF the hght
pobarts himself made a gallant figure az
the time of the enga cement, being dresser
I'm a rich crimson damash NdlsVoV@' a.,
brooches a red feather in his hat, goid
chain round his neck. Win d ulai'i0'
cross hanging TO It, SWORD VI MS "SnD
and two pair of pistols hanging a' .he
OF a silk sling flung over MS Shouiue'
cording to the fashion OF the p"aee9
is said to have given his orders WIN 80
ness and spirit; coming, according 10 w"
no had purposed, close TO the hlah-Vi
received her fire and then hoisted MS uia0N
flag and returned II; shooting away no,'
her with all the sail he could paeN~VN'
keeping his tacks down, either ny uo
winds shifting or i'll steerage, or poth' he
was taken aback with his sails, ana 'ne
Swallow came a second time very hlsh W
him. lilo had now perhaps finished W.
fight very desperately II Death VINO wv
swift passage in grapeshol' hao nos
interposed and struck him directly Oh W.
throat.
A cuTTHRoAT's TEARS
HE settled himself on the tackles OF
a gun, which one Stephenson at the he'ih
ohsar,,,ny and not perceiylng him wound