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Pirate Hoard on Cocos Island Captured in Ocean Lore
The Hesperus under Capt. Frederick Hackett prepares a year‑long Pacific voyage to find the buried treasure of Cocos Island. Keating, Thompson, and Benito Benito’s legends trace a 19th century chain of treasure, mutiny, and peril across the western Pacific toward a cave said to hold gold, church plate, and a Madonna statue.
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Hesperus
Eagle Harbor
Wash
Blue Pacific
Frederick Hackett
Cocos Island
Central America
United Stctes
Captain Hackett
Tebert Louis Stevenson
L Land
Monte Cristo
Benito Benito
Lafitte
N. F
Keating
Thompson
Bogue
Keatig
Islnd
Hackett Brothers
St. John’s
Hacketts
Thomas Hackett
Cocos
Havana
Hackett
Newfoundland
Vancouver
British Columbia
South
Bonito
Bank of Lima
Bogus
Meating
Benito
West Indian
Matanzas
Rio
Bahamas
Cape Horn
Pacific
Spanish America
Horn
California
Pacific Ocean
Costa Rica
Panama
West Indies
Valparaiso
Chapelle
England
Carrbbean
Callao
Peru
Lima
Pizarro
Captain Thompson
Mary Dear
Wafer Bay
Chatham Bay
Acros