The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

up, but the galleon herself is supposed to have sunk so deeply in fhe harbor bottom by now as to be beyond reach, although the spot where she went down is declared to be charted.
 Where $1OO, ,O0O, 900 Lies Buried
 The greatest treasure trove of all, however, is that of Viso Bay. in Spain. Here, in 1702, fleet of 17 Spanish plate ships, bearing $100, 100000 worth of treasure from the New World and protected by 23 French warships. sought shelter from an English and Dutch fleet of 9 fighting craft. Pikes. cutlasses and pistols were the scheme of battle. From the English and Dutch ships the boarding parties hurled them selves on to the decks of the enemy. Blazing pitch and fireballs were flung from deck t0 deck. GalleOns and men4 of-war burst into flames and burned to the waters edge. Only six of the treasure ships remained aflOat after the battle was won Since that date eff fort after effort. some on a gigantic scale under concessions from the Span ish government has been made to raise the bones of the gold armada and free the mammoth. treasure which they en- case. .
 Another treasure island.e in its way almost as alluring as COcos. is that of Trinidad-a barren. inhOspitable isie in the South Atlantic off the coast of Brazil. The treasure of the Cathedral of Lima, sent by ship out of Peru at the fall of the Spanish rule in 1920. is hidden there, according to the tale. Pirates met the Spanish ships bearing off the Lima treasure trOre. captured them and made for the desolate island. As Il result number of expeditions have tried their fortune in locating the plunder- One of the most important expeditions was that headed-by young Englishman in 1890. Gathering band of other adventurers about him. he sailed down to Trinidad. The ,tattered map, handed down by one of the orig inal pirates, declared that the treas ure was located at the foot of {. a pe- culiarly shaped mountain. The mOun- tain was found and the digging began. It continued for months without re- suit and eventually was abandoned.
 Captain Kidd and His Gold
 As for Captain Kidd, the tales of his buried treasure are legion. tps the Hudson. along the shores of l5ong lS- land, among the Delaware capes,, on reefs in the Spanish Main he is reputed to have sunk fortune after fortune ill footed gold. It is said he had great treasure on board his ship when he anchored at Oyster Bay while negoti- ating with the authorities for q par don for his piratical acts. There is, however. no record of his having bur jed anywhere the treasurer which he is accredited with cOncealing, although the J.ong Island waterside villages abound with carefully nurtured tales concerning hoards that still lie in chests beneath ground. The Carolina coast is similarly replete with legend of the buried treasure lof Blackboard. who hOnOred that section for some time with his unsavOry presence The shores and islands of Maine. as well. have their >clues and their remarkable stories.
 There is o;N, deterrent to the treas ure-hunter in the fact that cOastline change and shores recede and advance with the passing of centuries. A treasure buried on the shore two hun dred years ago may he far inland at the present day. A galleon sunk in twenty fathoms' of water may now he many fathoms deeper and moved by the action of the tide and undercurrent goodly distance from the spet where il went down. ...a
 The treasures of Montezuma of the Incas, of, Fl Dorado, the legends of which are Etill living things. still' re-