i; _ - ff > . il ` " 'PAGE5---sw°m_" " ' ` _ _ _ _ Daily Average of _ __ ORNING Daily-I 7072 for |907 _ , c » 5 __ _ 3_atches All Early 1- ‘ _f i' ' _ _ orning Mails. CH Rl El W GU mal Moamuo DAILY UNDED iam Yfiiaxav-fscvinviiavirivlioi __ CHARLOTPETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1908. iirngegsmgyphgrwwsu QUEJTF 2,, i »_oiizAT ~ _ _ '_/.._`,_._ _ - _,__ ~~ ’ __ _ _ _;\.i__', _ il-»'_ '_ we _ : A 'Q Ig' ham* ` _ ANUEL HQURA ia now wither ed' and worn with age. But in ale heydey of his youth, 50 years ago, no more daring deep- les diver Vent round the world in quest of profit or the sheer love of adventure. A story of an immense treasure of pir- ate sold, with daring plans of this did Amrean soldisr at fortune to recover it, comes from Nu( Bedford, Mass. This great treasure ennsista of 1,800,000 Eng. llsli soveieigns of $9,000,000 in glittering goin. lt exists without a doubt, but the green seas curl over it, the fishes swim ack and forth above that hidden for- tune, and to the thunder of the surf dead men's bones guard the secret well. _ THE SHIP LA PLATA. ‘ In the year i684 the treasure ship In _'Plata cleared from lima, Peru, bound! round the Horn for Cadiz, Spain. In her liold were nine great oaken chests, and each chest contained the sum of $1,000,000. This immense treasure, strange to say, was in English sovereigns. Why it was 'ln English coin no no at this day is able to explain. The natural inference *would have been that the golden treasure would have been in Spanish doubloons_ ,or pieces-of-eight. Or, perhaps, it should have consisted of solid ingots of the preo~ ious metals for which the brave adventur- ers of Spain conquered the continent of South America. and won with their bright 'swords a new empire of fabulous richness in the Western Hemisphere. From the old records we even know the name of the captain of this galleon which was £:_i_ghted _with a frcrmire fit for the mn- of lungs. He was called Jean Rose nd he was a Frenchman. The ship and ner precious cargo, however, belonged to Li_-:ndees of Spain, and the crew was Span- _Tlie good ship Le Plata nqunded the fiom in safety, and under a full press of einvss started on the long voyage up the Atlantic toward lmine. ` ln the neighborhood of the Cape Verde Islands a pirate ship manned by the same class of English bulldogs of the sea who had followed Drake and Haw- 0 EJ' <-> ' in s_ may stream from the western poll ii sessions of the Spanish colonies back is the_home country. Little did Jean Rose, the gallant ¢0m_ mander of the La Plata, dream that be- tween him and the safety of the home port this _black rover of the sea was ly- ln§ in wait. ecords of legends give no clues, after the €iiiPG€ of over 250 years, as to the name; of this bold sea rover or its cap- tain or the personnel of its crew, but we 31;; §>_;a____i;ure it was manned by hardy CUTLABS AND PIKE. _ ofthe Qalie Verde Islands the La Plato. fell in with the pirate ship. A fierce battle ensued and the La Plata made the best resistance it was capable of, but °°“hi D06 Stand before the headlong valor aiid desperate recklessness of the pirates. 'lhe treasure ship was captured at last and when the English boarders, cutlasses _between their teeth and pistols and pikcs ui hand, finally burst like a storm over her high bulwarks, the scuppcrs of the beaten Iia Plata were -ankle-deep in blood mid her decks were strewn with the dead and dying. #1-1? r'-%"""Z-'Y It/Zfajfnaamv #gasps f 2 L “irc ci ra n icli' recent wi to witi fFl‘B»i1C9 lil KI, died sword in hand on wus rciiioicd to the plrlite ship, which bam-:dill the gurfne wnh lf 1 M 8 C ry _ was cruising back and forth on the look- the deck of his llilp fiauntcd the blnck flag with thc scull and sian ht r ,1 = in E md Wm" “nd mm and wnssml’ a tornado blew out for treasure ships from Peru sailing ; . Q wiiid and wave, whilc ilie lightning ii.\~h- wl and the hcliveiis st-i.iic\i .li s,»i.l u-iiii- fler, the wicked s‘iip ill-w. elle ran lo di-struction, for at iiiirliig.. ui ieriufic speed, the wir- daslicd uw.. ...,iiiiul vifi louce ou the rocklioliiiil i _isi ol one of the Cape Verde ls.aii\ls. . .ii iiour lliv lllioined vessel had been limi ii to piicus on the jagged rocks and ~-\ci'y soul on hoard, with one nr two exceptions, had iuiscrahly perish:-d. ' The lew aiirvivom were thrown up on the hcuch and therc rescued by kind- licartcd natives. Here appears the most marvelous part oi' this true story. The survivors, or nt ‘ lcast one of them, remained on the island iuid through him and his descendants came down by word of mouth for more than tivo centuries thc tale of the fate that, hfack night yeaus ago which overtook thcl svn wolves and of the linuicnse treasure whil-h lay llitlinms dccp siiiiil the ribs of their slilitlcrcd ship oil that ironoundi coast. _ M .~\.\'Lil£L MOURA. Mziniicl Moura is a dircct descendant of one of the survivors of the wild crow that perished that awful nig'ii nfl' th-~ _coast of the islnnd. Down lo hiiii ..._-iv, over 40 years ago, the uccoliiit oi .hc lg'rc.'it booty at the bottom of the sea, ai \li_\le strange but true, poured into his fas- icinated ears‘by his (loddering old father, |then nearly s. century old. Then and [there Manuel Mours determined to get possession of the treasure. Different things prevented his search through sll»the _vears that hc followed the sou, but the thought of the iles of ellow old awaitin him Moura became a deepeea diver, and a what few nnwed walked the plank n_obs bones _r___m__l_______ly ____ the mam the H8 fret ai_ vs_ up from the west, and soon the corsair_` long time ago he recovered large quanti- h°h‘°Whi'd t° Cadiz, iii l-haf I-iii`i° Y-he P0i't After the in\¢lQse trsafnre which hai lin Plate was fired and as the pirate sliii t le vm on-` |w“|c‘"’ were h°i' d9HU\\"f| “-14 il:-.ing like some frightened thing- tics of gold and silver coin from several , . _oi entry for the “avian-I 'bidi amved been so “Mb-ay but unavamnaly defend “Hai _______a ________ .iw _m___enBc boot ‘___l o___es_cape _witi _i_cir ill-gotten trensiiri-_._i l!i_i_oiicli ii hnwlinl storm. sunken ships near the Cape Verde Isl- \~.__.__..__._.. , ..._-___ §_._Z.._- -_.-... _ R ii _ _ » . ~ _ _ _ _ ii. _ if B _ K kms when they hamed the spanish Main’ Jean °.' 3 the gn “_nt. gcnuemnnl ed bl’ J"“ii R°h'~ “iid his 5“iii'il\Y ¢‘i`0_\_V.'riooiile_d gallcon blew ul’>_ :iud_ soon snnl | ~lcli ti tl _ » l never left his mind clay or night. but-_jus Y Y 19 Mi t at night, \\u.u the fierce bucwnceis \i.i um! on through the black wrack of ands. lt was 40 youu ago that Moum _____¢-_.__.__....._.__.._..__.__. _._ _ _ ._ ._ _ _ __ ._ _ ._ _ _ _ ,_ _ i. _ __ _ ._ __ _,_ ___________ __ ?Oape Verde. in that time he heét _from the inaw of the can between U __ and $8,000 in gold coia,'ns_~mer¢d (ml rotting timebn of A lo¢"lp\ish ship. That he did this is an nnqueeti fact,uhshsdnlongleg\leonteItil the counsofhhodolalsndqnr hilllllll of it with a merchant of that stats named Moses Green. Hs had turned the treuurl over to Green for safe keeping ss it _VII _ taken from the sea. Hs eventually recur ,cred his share of it from Green. The owl! records of this celebrated ale are open I' nll who care is read. The expedition which was no sucoeéui in recovering part of that treasure nailed from Providence in 1868. After repeated failures it located sevsnl wrecks on the lions Vista reef. There three iron boxlsl ol' gold' were found. These were located close to where the great tnllum ‘ot th! sunken pirate, with $9,000,000 in gold, ily. Moura did not disclose to others thi location of the greater tivessure. A Liss oi' Anvissruiui. ` Moura made many other expeditions i-can.-h oi valuables and treasure lost is ozlier ships, but never did he fail to N member that on that hidden reef, un' l;iio\vii to ciiliers. lhcre wus still waitin( ~<‘:,r limi ii lrcssuic large enough to buy |- priiiiip.iliiy_ ‘.~\i`l~i' dosing his conii~r:tion with 'J'-' Z\lf> .~ lii.fi.i ix_ediiion, ,iloura and aii ~4.-- si- __-_ ii ii.. .ii-d .ii the Lui.. lifrdc ’.~i ui ,ini lor an Lngii.~li vizsel tu ai . 118. liis asiiisuiiil was Joh-~ .` i. aiioilicr daring deep-sen 1llv"~‘ ii ...i rover. 'l`he lmglisli ship was ~' |» .uid she was loaded with railroad _ .i .iiid money. 'l`he money and the cargo ~--._ io he used in building a rail-r°l\~"» ._ .iii-ii ever projected in Africa. Moors ill. iiilard of the fate of the brig from s \'. ».i.u.i who kept ii hotel in the island". llrr son, who was on the lost ship, hr-I »~;..nt several years in an unsuccessful 0!- ii iiipl. to recover the money part of tho lzilgo. iliis miin had saved the manifest of the brig. .\loui~a saw it, with the record d iiiie gold aboard, and he commenced work to recover the treasure. He located tlil Iii-ig. and eventually found the chest, pal* t; -.lly covered with sand. The lighter wi iviiicli he worked was poorly equipre arid the chest was too heavy to be mov from its bed of clinging sand with tbl i-'_'-ol; rigging with which he had to delvi. \'»`Iiile he was at work he was eeiusd with yellow fever and was forced to rt- i'. l_ui'ii home. 'l`liesc adventures in search of buried ir:-iisure are only a few of the ltii-rin( episodes in the adventurous life of tho liravr: old diver. STILL AFTER THE GOLD. f.l~'l“i\ is now too old for diving bi* lie it ;lu:;iou.< io gui younger msn inter- i».~ti~