The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-08-08


carvings, writings and traditions that Ell Had
was a great Recommendations. that the supposed
fabulous boards he Is supposed to have found
once existed and that SO far there Is nothing TO
show that FL Hadj ever despoiled or that his
treasures were found and dissipated by his sue.
cessors
Carroll Neide Brown in 1896 or 1897, discovered
nineteen Greek inscriptions built into the outer
face Of the Acropos at Athens, in that corner
where there evidences Of Turkish or Roman
repairs These inscriptions have been translated
after great deal of study OF the older languages.
and they tell OF the slowing away of many gold
and silver vessels and in many cases give the
location and the date of the burial Of them.
There are the troves Of Nneveh Babylon, Tyre
and Sidon the gold Of Ophr, Of Solomon and Of
the eastern efnperors. In eleven cases the dates
of caches, location and the value given, and
there is inscribed a note OF a treasure which Is
inferred with a vase dedicated to Athena near
the Erectheum Twenty years before the finding
of this tablet by Carroll Nede Brown the vase
referred to found but the treasure was not
1t is expected that great discoveries will be made
at Hessaelek and Elalea by following out the d.
rections of the ancient Greeks
1t has been said that the life OF the Dutch sol
der of today consists Of three periods: Anxiety
and enthusiasm concerning the Life of In
undation; dreams Of the buried treasure of Soera-
bayan temples figuring off the days till pension
time One portion Of this is literally true SO far
Java and the other islands, after they have been
properly drilled and seasoned in Holland Over
one hundred thousand men maintained in the
Dutch possessions in the East Indies where there
has been constant warfare for over one hundred
years, though the world pays it no attention what
soever, unless post gets wiped out and then
there a few lines in the worlds morning cable
news and that s all.
On the way out the soldier will begin to hear
aboard ship of concealed treasures in the strange
land to which he goes and never an hour of the
time he serves in the tropics will he be free from
the sense that at any moment he may pick up
the clue to vast wealth. Many men have gone
home wealthy the result of smaller finds and
always, always there Is the possibility just in
front of their noses.
Strictly speaking, the treasure-haunted temples
are not those near Soerabaya alone for from
Acheen in Sumatra to Kupang in Timor is
never sure when one is not walking the site
of cache from some temple or shrine not far
away. The mountains continuous ridge In
the center Of the long islands, and I'm the
dense growth of the sides stand old buildings OF
uncertain age, though it is now believed that they
built some twelve hundred years ago at the
time OF the conquest of the islands by people of
Aryan blood and Buddhist belief from India A
great and prosperous empire once existed there.
falling at last before disease and insular wars
When the final calamity was at hand and raid.
ing piratical bands according to the old Sanskrit
records we're devastating the realm, the priests
in each locality were compelled to despoil every
temple and shrine OF the great wealth of Jewels
gold and silver and hide It In the earth in caves
in the mountains Then came the Mosem raiders
and that was the end OF all hope OF ever restor.
Ing to the temples the gold and silver oyerlaid
work. and to the eyes, and fingers of the
idols the beautiful jewels taken from them.
Gradually the secret of each cache has persisted
save In two localities where buddhist
priests have been able to remain continuously
and pass the secrets on from generation TO gen.
Grafton.
All through the East Indies are places where
pirates have hidden treasure. One OF those ia
on the island of Celebes on the Macassar Strait
side. where the great Dyak robber SauS-Bulan
put in with his proas and pintas and according
TO tho British Admiralty records took all of his
wealth ashore and came boldly out to fight the
sloop-of-war Nestor. only to be blown out OF tho
water by her guns. AS nearly as this can he
traced IL was at the mouth OF a little river that
runs down to the between Macassar and
Paloa.