Rocky Ford enterprise., 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 transpired
during the chase and the fight is not clear--is
even too vague to be pertinent but a 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 1t is now known.
and north to the islands now bearing the name
Fortune Islands. given them by OF this
very happening.
Here the 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. 1t 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 ell 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 found
near Cape Maysf. The men were never heard OF,
but, they quarreling and fighting among
themselves in Puerto ell Principe. 1t is logical to
suppose that there was second mutiny with
much boodshed that the ship fired
those who did not jump into the burned
to death.
Two other galleons were robbed that same year
by mutinous crews. but the treasures safely
landed by the mutineers. crew at Lisbon and
the other at Genoa. These must be confused
with the Santa Marta AFFAIR.
The Fortune Islands quite small, are in
nablted almost solely Dy banana blacks, are al
most out of touch with the world though but
days sail from New York and one from Nassau
Havana. From the charts 1t may be seen that
there is but one spot where the Santa Marta
could have anchored to put ashore so heavy a
cargo. and there ought to be little difficulty in
locating the cache on the low-lying island SO far
I know. there has never been any attempt
made at recovery.
There are many, many alluring sunken treas
both coasts Many of these are SO IA
miliar to need but the merest mention.
Large sums and great effort have been expend-
old Golden Gate definitely located on the Mex
lean coast.
Admiral Francis brakes Marigod carried the
bulk OF his spoils up to the time OF her loss on
the west coast near Piedranegra
In 1897 Admiral De Points, 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 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
be effected through study of the British ad-
miralty records, and at least one of the three
should lie in shallow water.
The so-called Captain George h. 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 an advanced age he carried
the knowledge of a number OF treasure-troyes
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 1885
Captain Phipps of the British navy learned of
sunken buccaneer vessel with a great treasure
aboard On the shore the Tortugas and