The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea.

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The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea.

by Charles Sumner Seeley

EN·~8 hours·23 chapters

Chapters

23 total

THE SPANISH GALLEON. - CHAPTER I. THE ISLAND.

16:45

CHAPTER II. THE FOOD SUPPLY.

19:15

CHAPTER III. HOUSE-BUILDING.

22:45

CHAPTER IV. PIG-HUNTING.

21:46

CHAPTER V. BOAT-BUILDING.

26:23

CHAPTER VI. “DUKE 2D, PROPERTY OF H. SENLIS.”

22:56

CHAPTER VII. THE WATER-GLASS.

23:02

CHAPTER VIII. BREAD-MAKING.

20:32

CHAPTER IX. THE GALLEON FOUND.

19:18

CHAPTER X. THE CASTAWAYS.

23:05

Description

A lone survivor drifts through the Caribbean, clinging to a water‑logged chest while the sea swallows his ship. Exhausted and desperate, he finally scrambles onto a tiny, uninhabited island, where the moon’s bright path offers a fleeting lifeline. As he drinks from a hidden spring, the harsh reality of his isolation gives way to a strange sense of purpose: the chest may hold more than just wood and rope.

Soon, the island’s tangled vegetation and silent cliffs become a maze of clues, hinting at a long‑lost Spanish galleon buried beneath the sand. Driven by a family legacy of piracy and a yearning for treasure, the protagonist begins to map the terrain, uncovering forgotten tunnels and weathered markings. The early days of his ordeal set the stage for a tense, methodical hunt that blends survival instincts with the lure of hidden riches.

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The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea.

Language

en

Duration

~8 hours (489K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)

Release date

Jul 31, 2018

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Charles Sumner Seeley

b. 1844

Adventure, buried treasure, and hidden civilizations drive the fiction published under this pen name. Best known for tales like The Spanish Galleon and The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs, he wrote brisk late-19th-century adventures with a taste for exploration.

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