The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day

H.M.S. Lutine leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage. (From the painting by Frank Mason, R.A., in the Committee Room of Lloyd's, London.) See Chapter XI.

THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE

BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE GOLD, JEWELS, AND PLATE OF PIRATES, GALLEONS, ETC., WHICH ARE SOUGHT FOR TO THIS DAY

ILLUSTRATIONS - H. M. S. Lutine leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage........... Frontispiece - Treasure-seekers' Camp at Cape Vidal on African Coast - Divers searching wreck of Treasure-ship Dorothea, Cape Vidal, Africa - Captain Kidd burying his Bible - Carousing at Old Calabar River - The Idle Apprentice goes to sea - John Gardiner's sworn statement of the goods and treasure left with him by Kidd - Governor Bellomont's endorsement of the official inventory of Kidd's treasure found on Gardiner's Island - The official inventory of the Kidd treasure found on Gardiner's Island - A memorandum of Captain Kidd's treasure left on Gardiner's Island - Statement of Edward Davis, who sailed home with Kidd, concerning the landing of the treasure and goods - The French pass or safe conduct paper found by Kidd in the ship Quedah Merchant - Kidd hanging in chains - "The Pirates' Stairs" leading to the site of Execution Dock at Wapping where Kidd was hanged - Sir William Phips, first royal governor of Massachusetts - Map of Hispaniola (Hayti and San Domingo) engraved in 1723, showing the buccaneers at their trade of hunting wild cattle - Permit issued by Sir William Phips as royal governor in which he uses the title "Vice-Admiral" which involved him in disastrous quarrels - The oldest existing print of Boston harbor as it appeared in the time of Sir William Phips, showing the kind of ships in which he sailed to find his treasure - An ancient map of Jamaica showing the haunts of the pirates and the track of the treasure galleons - The town and bay of Tobermory, Island of Mull - Duart Castle, chief stronghold of the MacLeans - Ardnamurchan Castle, seat of the MacIans and the MacDonalds - Defeat of the Spanish Armada - Diving to find the treasure galleon in Tobermory Bay - The salvage steamer Breamer equipped with suction dredge removing a sandbank from the supposed location of the Florencia galleon in 1909 - Scabbards, flasks, cannon balls, and small objects recovered from the sunken Armada galleon - Stone cannon balls and breech-block of a breech-loading gun fished up from the wreck of the Florencia galleon - Sir George Rooke, commanding the British fleet at the battle of Vigo Bay - The Royal Sovereign, one of Admiral Sir George Rooke's line-of-battle ships, engaged at Vigo Bay - Framework of an "elevator" devised by Pino for raising the galleons in Vigo Bay - An "elevator" with air bags inflated - Cannon of the treasure galleons recovered by Pino from the bottom of Vigo Bay - Hydroscope invented by Pino for exploring the sea bottom and successfully used in finding the galleons of Vigo Bay - Lima Cathedral - Treasure-seekers digging on Cocos Island - Christian Cruse, the hermit treasure-seeker of Cocos Island - Thetis Cove in calm weather, showing salvage operations - Thetis Cove during the storm which wrecked the salvage equipment - Sir Walter Raleigh - Methods of manipulating the diving rod to find buried treasure - Gibbs and Wansley burying the treasure - The Portuguese captain cutting away the bag of moidores - Interview between Lafitte, General Andrew Jackson, and Governor Claiborne - The death of Black Beard

THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE

THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE

CHAPTER I - THE WORLD-WIDE HUNT FOR VANISHED RICHES

CHAPTER II - CAPTAIN KIDD IN FACT AND FICTION

CHAPTER III - CAPTAIN KIDD, HIS TREASURE

CHAPTER IV - CAPTAIN KIDD, HIS TRIAL, AND DEATH