THE COCOS ISLANDS,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1904.
That further, expeditions-under. American auspices to discover the Cocos Islands:
AN OLDER SWINDLE ON SPANISH TREASURE treasure will eventuate, may be looked upon as
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BY LOUIS BECKE,
In 1868, the writer, then a bay on his first: voyage from Newcastle (New South Wales) to California, had as a shipmate a very decent German, who was the second mate. He told the captain of the barque that he had years previously sailed from San Francisco with 31
other men to search for the Gocos Islanda treasure. All the company were shareholders, and each bad put in 1,000dols., from which the um of 5,000dols, was paid in cash to a man who knew exactly where the treasure, was kid. den, and who, with the captain of the vessel, was jointleader of the expedition.
How this man came into possession of the secret, poor Hartmann (the German) could not tell, but he had a fine chart of the islands, with a lot of writing on it in cipher, which showed where the money was hidden in the ground." The vessel in which Hartmann sall- ed, belonged, it was stated, to the captain, who - good, generous man-told his dupes that he would not take a single dollar from them for charter money until the treasure was found and put under hatches,
Previous to their departure a general meet ing was held on board. and it was decided that
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foregone conclusion, for the average intel ligent American is more gullible than the uneducated British yokel when the prospect of A Months. obtaining money easily in offered to him, and only in the United States are the promoters of such swindles as the Spanish prisoner fraud and the Cocos Islands awindle given facilities by a corrupt section of the Press to prosecute. their nefarious practices with immunity from D
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Fifteen years ago, when in search of a derelict barque, the writer spent a week at Coco lalands-not seeking for the treasure, be it mentioned-and a very enjoyable week it proved
REAL BURIED TREASURE.
I have said that there is no doubt but that treasure was buried on the Cocos, and the con vict fones gave me a detailed account of the discovery of a portion of it by the master of s Hobart Town whaler, some time about 1830. Janes asserted that this man, when watering his vessel at the island, went ahore with one of his boat-steerers to shoot goats, and found a heap of silver coins lying exposed in the bed of a stream near Chatham Bay.
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They-being fearful of communicating their discovery to the rest of the ship's company- buried the money, in a thicket scrub, and returned to the ship, which, instead of continu HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, SINGAPORE.
as the accumulated funds were much in excessing ber cruise, sailed for Hobart Town. Here, of what was required, or was likely to be re
to their astonishment, the discontented crew quired, they should be banked until the expedi-were each given £10 by the captain in addition tion returnett; and it seems almost incredible that the fatuous treasure seekers actually em- powered the two leaders to bank it as a "trust account" in their sole nares!
THEY NEVER CAME BACK. All went well till within a day's sail of, I think, Acapulco, where the skipper decided to put in and "buy some bullocks to take to the Cocos." (He was a most thoughtful man, and was always, Hartmann said, very anxious about his passengers' welfare, and he and his enadi jutar made the company lake a:solemn pledge to be temperate in the use of liquor.) When Acapulco was reached the two worthies went on shore to buy the bullocks. They never came back!
After some days the helpless treasure seekers consulted the Mexican authorities, who came
on board, highly indignant at the insinuation of the chief mate of the vessel that the two men had been assassinated by dasperadocs for the sake of the money they had in their possession. The mail safe in the cabin was then forced, and there-oh, joy untold to some suspicious minds was found the large envelope con. taining the chart, plan, &c.
POOLS IN FOOLS' FOOTSTEPS.
In due time the treasure islands were reached They lie (in two sepser) nearly 600 miles W.S. W. from Panama, and for six weeks the mem. bers of the expedition toiled and toiled with pick and shovel, digging and trenching and cross-trenching in all directions through the miry, sodden soil, carefully following the plan of the missing leaders, and finding nothing.
"But," said the German mate to Cap. tain O'Hagan of the Lizzie and Rota, "we
did come across hundreds of holes and pits, and cuttings and trenches-they were every where, all over the island. They had been dug by fools like ourselves-years and years before. Some were nearly filled up and covered over with grass and small trees. The whole island (where we worked for more than three months) seemed to have been dug up.
The only things we found
were bones-bones of poor devils of fellows like us, who had come to look for the treasure, and bad died of the Cocos rain fever-as some. of us died."
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Finally, after the death of seven of the com. pany, and the search for the treasure had been abandoned, the remaining members of the expedition returned to Sao Francisco, where their vessel-which they regarded as an asset -was promptly seized by a firm of shipbrokers, who produced a bottomry bond. And so ended one of the quests.
REDUCING THE DIVISOR. Another search, of which the present writer was told by Henry Jones, un ex-Tasmanian convict, who took part in it, was more tragic in
to their "lay far the broken voyage, and hartly afterwards he and the steward, with two other men, sailed from Hobart Town in a small cutter, and were never heard of again in Tasmania.
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equatorial islands of the Pacific in 1893) was one of a party of eleven men who sailed from Valparaiso in 1848 to discover the treasure. The captain of the vessel was an Englishman, who professed to have the secret of its location. Ha took Jones--who, by his own confession to
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These eight men spost five months in endeavouring to discover the treasure, and they came across trenches and cuttings which, said Jones, "most have been made a hundred years kgo."
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