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brought him considerable reward for his persist
ence, although 20 years dug up single
gem golden coin.
Gopceyc. when youth in Serbia, became fascinated
with stories of buried treasure The of moderately
weo-do Montenegran father and English mother who
hoped that he would become distinguished lawyer doc
young Gepeevc bitten by the asure-hunting
bug so badly that his studies began to suffer.
At=14r@xhen his father took him to task for his low
marks, Gopcevic asked bandly:
But father what is of studying o be
tor or lawyer when there billions gold
precious buried places throughout the
world just waiting for someone to dig them up 20"
His father tried to impress him with the fact that ust
digging them up not quite simple it sounded
but the youth was unconvnced Finally the father agreed
young Gopcevic studied very hard and got better
he would be permitted to search for buried treasure
during his next vacation.
Eight months later Gopcevic enthusiastically started
off his first treasure hunting expedition to Czegled
Hungary where in some undiscovered spot that region
stood the great Ezelburg Palace where Attla the
Hun, SeeuFge of God, was buried.
After his DEATH Atta's body had been sealed up in
three cofns of gold of silver and Of iron.
laid away the earth secretly at night Over the
collins grave filled in vast loot of pre-
objects had poured The spoils of conquered
peoples the treasures included crowns jade scepres tails
mans amues golden sacks filled with priceless
jewels Then to insure the nvoabty Of this great tomb
those who had dug the grave were slaughtered
All during his Summer vacation, Gopcevic searched dill
gently this hoard but when school began he had not
unearhed single item of value His father thought
that this experience would his of the treasure
hunting bug but the young man was more enthusiastic
than
During his holiday he made expedition to Gour
don seek the Gourdon Abbey Treasure fabu-
gemencrusted vessels. chasubes, rubes,
pearls emeralds and gold buried centuries ago by the
resident monks to keep them from raidng Morse pirates
he made another search for treasure in the forest
Of Selon, Bourg in southern France where rich
cache jewels by the Chartreix monks in
1898 they evicted from their monastery But
efforts find tiny part of these treasures
From then on" he said recently Instead of starting
a hunt began compile much nforma-
ton I could about the famous buried boards.
Many treasure seeking ventures failed because
inadequate information to exact locations, while
others abandoned when it discovered that
the original markings had been obterated by andslides
cavens.
In most cases failure can be attributed poor plan
nng inadequate experience sufficient funds and
proper equipment Proper facilities for recovering cargoes
from sunken ships have been available since it
until the present century that salvage equipment made
deep-sea undertakings practicable
Gopcevic continued his Switzerland and later
came Harvard Continuing this interest OF his child
he compiled information about 49, Of the worlds
most important lost treasures
His American friends seeing him pore over ancient
treasure maps became Interested too IN
spend evening evening with them discussing exped
tons to the earth and specializing the
possibilities Of recovering buried fortunes.
1t began TO dawn then" he said, chat almost
everyone armchair treasure hunter and that all the
data had collected could be used and enjoyed by many
thousands OF such guratve explorers So worked out
a seeking game which called FL Dorado MAX
ing possible hunters TO search
any of the 1877 fabulous troves
Using worldwide treasure map playing board
Gopcevc deNsed method whereby from two 70 six play
ers each WITH "a lantern playing piece could
start an expedition from san Francisco, Capetown
Canberra in New South Wales choose the he
by Of treasure cards and move along route
20 the with throws Of pair Of dice giving
MIN VIGOROUSLY the thrills and sctbaCks which follow
actual treasure hunting
So popuar has Gopcevcs "El Dorado become that he
is realizing tidy from the sale Of the game through
out the country Commenting upon this he recently said
by turning ali my data into game instead of another
expedition probably become the only hunter
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