
A weather‑worn clipper slips into New York Harbor, its captain eager to share a secret that could turn fortunes upside down. Archaeologist Cecil Clifford has uncovered a mysterious sealed chamber deep in the Honduran jungle, hinting at a lost Spanish galleon and a hoard of gold buried beneath the sea. With the reluctant shipowner, a miserly businessman, refusing to fund the venture, Clifford turns to the seasoned Captain Hartley, offering a daring partnership that could change both their lives.
The two men, bound by a handshake of trust, set their sights on the abyss, charting a course that blends scientific curiosity with the allure of untold riches. As they rally a crew and confront the practicalities of deep‑sea exploration, the story teases the excitement of hidden history waiting to be uncovered. Listeners will be drawn into a world of daring voyages, cryptic clues, and the timeless promise of treasure waiting on the ocean floor.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (152K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2017-05-11
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1863–1939
A wildly prolific dime-novel writer, he helped feed America's early appetite for science fiction and adventure with tales of young inventors, robots, airships, and futuristic machines. His fast-paced stories made him famous as the "American Jules Verne."
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