HIDDEN TREASURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 8

HIDDEN TREASURE.

ENGLISH PARTY’S NARROW ESCAPE.

Saved from death on Cocos Island, 300 miles off the Central American coast, by the timely arrival of the Californian Atlantic Steamship Co.’s Navajo, the mysterious party of English treasure hunters, who left San Francisco more than two months ago are now en route to England. The party consisted of three men and two women and they were taken to Cocos Island by another steamer of tho same company after having made arrangements in San Francisco for the Navajo to call for them.

Never was tho arrival of a steamer more timely, for the gold hunters had abandoned their search for tho 50,000,000 dollars, alleged to have been buried on the island by pirates many years ago, and were’ 1 struggling to keep alive until succour arrived. Tho island is so barren they could barely find sustenance after their food supply was exhausted. Moreover, the island is the homo of hundreds of wild and savage dogs, offspring of animals left there by’other explorers, and these were a constant ntnr.ee to tho “party. Officers of Navajo, who brought to Los Angeles a story of the sufferings of the party, said that while the searchers claimed to have charts indicating the location of tho buried gold, they found nothing save the skeletons of three men, believed to have 'perished in a vain attempt to find tho cache of the Spanish pirates.