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According to a letter received at Brixham, Devon, the expedition which “set out from Brixham a year ago to hunt for hidden treasure on Cocos Island, 500 rnjles west of Panama, in the Brixham trawler Vigilant, . converted into a, cruiser yacht, has been abandoned at Balboa, Panama.
i When on the voyage from Punta i Arenas, Chile, to Balboa, the ya'cht it is stated, met bad weather. Worms ate away the bottom of the boat, causing her to leak-badly.. The crew was reduced to. the verge of starvation. Oh the twenty-second day out a steamer i replenished the empty food lockers. 1 and tanks- and an American survey ship .later towed the Vigilant to grades . Island. Adverse winds and •currents buffeted the yacht in Panama waters’ for five- days.
The . expedition was organised and led by Mr Stratford -D. Jolly, the traveller and explorer, of Bourne End, :Bucks- it is Stated that the. special quest of the expedition was the location of the golden figures of the Madonna and Child and Twelve Apostles, looted from a Spanish church ■ by pirated and. hidden in a lair on Cocos Island; ‘ .id
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 8
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