PIRATES' GOLD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1176, 11 July 1911, Page 5

PIRATES' GOLD.

A SEARCH FOR £20,000,000. By Telegraph-Press Associatlon-Oo»yTleM (Kec. July 10, 10.10 p.m.) London, July 10. A further expedition has left England to bcareh Cocos Island, which lies in the Pacific, about 500 miles south-west of Panama, for treasure estimated at .£20,000,000, said to have teen buried by pirates early in the nineteenth century. A cable message of .Tune 10 stated that the steamer Eureka had been successful in locating about .£5,000,000 of treasure off tho Honduras coast. There havo been reports of buried treasure in (his quarter of the world from time to time, and in September last. Sir -Henry Lucy, in his weekly letter to tho "Sydney ' Morning Herald," slated:—"Loyally awaiting the conclusion of the new enterprise of his old leader and friend, Captain Scott, before making fresh endeavour to reach the South Pole, Sir Ernest Shacklcton has a fresh and novel enterprise on hand. Somo time ago ho heard of a strange discovery made on a rarely-visited island in tho South Pacific. The boat's crew of a passing ship lauding, they found in shallow water groups of strange monoliths, on which wero outlined the faco and figure of men. A necessarily hasty and superficial search suggested tho presenco of sunken treasure, onco the property of an extinct race. This sounds like "the beginning of one of R. L. Stevenson's romances. Sir Ernest, a fundamentally practically-minded man, lias convinced himself there is something in the story. Conviction has carried him tho length of chartering a ship, and engaging officers and crew to repair to the island and hunt for treasure. He came up yesterday from his Somerset Lome to interview his captain, and give final intsructions for <i voyage that will bo entered upon in tie course of next week."