Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-15


 Dearest Hazei-1t seems foolish to write you letter that you may never see. but ! simply must tell somebody of our awful experiences since we sailed from Europe ,on the ill fated Arrow.
 | IT. we never return to civilization. as now seems only toe likely. this will at least prpve a brief record of the events which led up to our fate. whatever it may be
 As you know. we were supposed to have set out upon q scientific expedition to the | Kongo. Papa was presumed to entertain some wondrous theory of an unthinkable ancient civilization. the remains of which ! lay buried somewhere in the Kongo val- ley But after we were well under sail the truth came out.
 It seems that an old bookworm who has a book and curio shop in Baltimore dis ! covered between the leaves of very old | Spanish manuscript letter written in i76o. detailing the adventures of a crew of mutineers of a Spanish galleon bound from Spain to South America with vast treas ure of ''doubloons" and pieces of eight" l suppose. for they certainly sound weird and piraty
 The writer had been one of the crew. and the letter was to his son. who was at the time the letter was written master of a spanish merchantmen.
 Many years had elapsed since the events the letter narrated had transpired and the | old man had become n respected citizen of , an obscure Spanish town. but the love of | gold was still go strong upon him that he risSed all Co acquaint his son with the mea.1s of attaining fabulous wealth for them both.
 The writer told how when but week l out from Spain the crew had mutinied and murdered every officer and man who op- | posed them. They defeated their own ] 1a hv rf left competent to navigate a ship nl sea
 They were blown hither and thithr for two months until. sick and dying of scur- ". starvation and thirst. they had been wrecked on a small islet
 The galleon was washed high upoi, the beach. where she went to pieces but not before the survivors who numbered but ten souls. had rescued one of the great chests of treasure.
 | This they buried well upon the island. and for three years they lived there in constant hope of being rescued.
 One by one they sickened and died until only one man was left. the writer of the letter
 The men had built a boat from the wreckage of the galieon: but. having no Idea where the island was located. they had not dared to put 10 sea.
 When all were dead except himself. how ever. the awful loneliness SO weighed upon the mind Of the sole survivor that he could endure it no longer. and. choosing | to risk death upon the open sea rather than madness on the lonely isle. he set sail in his little boat after nearly a year of solitude.
 Fortunately he sailed due north and within a week was in the track of the Spanish merchantmen plying between the | West Indies and Spain and was picked ur by one of these vessels homeward bound
 The story he told was merely one of shipwreck in which all but n few had per lshed. the balance except himself. dying after they reached the island. He did not mention the mutlny or the chest Of buried treasure.
 The master Of the merchantman as sured him that from the position at which they picked him up and the prevailing winds for the past week he could have been on no other island than one of ths Cape Verde group. which lie of the west coast of Africa In about i6 degrees or Il degrees north latitude
 His letter described the island minutely us well as the location of the treasure and was accompanied by the crudest. fun niest little old map you ever saw. witt trees and rocks all marked by scrawlJ Ks 10 show the exact spot where th' treasure had been buried
 When papa explained the real natur, of the expedition my heart sank. for know SO well how visionary and imprac tieai the poor dear has always been tha feared that he had again been duped especially when he told me that he had paid a thousand dollars for the letter ant map
 To add to my distress l learned that h' had borrowed S000o more from Rober Canler and had given his notes for th' amount
 Mir Canler had asked for no security and you know. dearie. what that wil mean for me If papa cannot meet them Oh, how 1 detest that man!
 We all tried to look on the bright sid' of things. but Mir. Philander and Mir Clayton-he joined us In London lust fol the adventure-both felt as skeptical as
 To make a long story short, We foun' the island and the treasure-a great iroi bound oak chest wrapped in many layer of oiled sailcloth and as strong and frn as when it had been buried nearly 20 years ago.
 It was simply filled with gold coin ant was so heavy that four men bent beneati its weight
 The horrld thing seems to bring nothinl but murder and misfortune to those wh' have to do with it, for three days afte We sailed from the Cape Verde islands ou own crew mutinied and killed every one O . their officers.
 It was the most terrifying experienc one could imagine. cannot even writ of it
 They were going to kill us. too. but on of them. the leader. a man named King : would not let them, and so they saie' south along the coast to a lonely spo where they found good harbor. and her they have landed and left us. They sailed away with the treasure to day. but Mir. Clayton says they will mee with a fato similar 10 the mutineers O the ancient galleon. because King. tn only man aboard who knew aught of nav igation. was murdered on the beach b. one of the men the day We landed
 I wish you could know Mir. Clayton. II Is the dearest fellow imaginable. and. un less 1 am mistaken. he has fallen yer much in love with poor little me. He Is the only son of Lord Greystok and some day will inherit the title an , estates. In addition. he is wealthy in hi , own right. But the fact that he is goin to be an English lord makes mo very sad You know what my sentiments have al ways been relative to American girls wh 1 married titled foreigners. Oh. if he wer only plain American gentleman
 But 1t isn't his fault. poor fellow, and | everything except birth he would do cred it 10 my darling old country. and that . the greatest compliment l know how { , pay any man
 , We have had the most weird experience since We were landed here-papa and Nil l Philander lost in the jungle and chase l by real Hon: MT. Clayton lost and at