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Victoria Expedition Will Search Cocos Island for the Souith of Maceaneern, VICTORIA, Dec. 19.—In Victoria’ harbor dies the brigantine Blakely, soon to set out of a romantic Voyige to Cocos Island. Cocos Island is not unknown in Victoria, and the fame of its hidden treasure has drawn many prominent, but for the time being anonymous, business men into the present enterprise. Success may not be met with, but those who have heard the full story profess a profound conviction that millions lie buried in the little island off the coast of Central America, Captain Pedro Bonitw is the first name which the storyssociates with Cocos Island. in 1821 that redoubte able buccaneer boarded and captured a Spanish galleon off the Peruvian coast. ‘The wealth that fell into his greedy clutches forms the nucleus of what lies hidden now. It is inter esting to note that a member of Captain Bouita’s crew was the father of Mrs. Brennan, now a resident of North Sydney, C.B. She has lost faith in Cocos Island since the failure of the expedition are organized a few years ago. ‘The year 1838 saw a considerable addition to the United treasure. When Captain John Keating entered the port of Callao in his barque the Mary Dier, lo found the citizens in a state of unrest which gradually de veloped into terror. The Chileans were driving everything before them in the war then raging, and the Peruvian Government expected to see their army before the walla of Cairo at any moment, Capt. Keating came to the rescue of the Govern ment, Ile took the paublic treasury aboard the Mary Diet for safe-keep ing. During the night, however, he decided to keep it himself. And so Cocos Island figures in the narrative again, Keating made several attempts to recover his treasure in later years. Before his death he recovered some #410,000, he secret did not die with him, for in the hands of his son in-law he had left a rough chart of the iallust. Captain Ann Giseler sailed from Stockton, Cal., and endeavoured to locate the hidden treasure by con sulting the diagram. THe failed. ‘The expedition of Charles Hartford, who had secured permission from the Costa Rican Government, also ended in failure. ‘The Instacatch was pro secuted by Admiral Palliser, com mander-in-Chief of the British Squad ron in the North Pacific. He con ducted operations with vigour and determination, but met with no more success than those who had preceded him. Those who have interested them selves in the new expedition feel con fident that the organizer, Captain Hackett, will conduct it to a success ful termination, Captain Hackett has visited the island before. Ie feels not a whit discouraged at his former failure or the failure of the others who have sought the hidden wealth.
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St Johns Evening Telegram
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Fri, Jan 03, 1902
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