MONTEZUMA’S HIDDEN HOARD.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17761, 7 December 1929, Page 6

MONTEZUMA’S HIDDEN HOARD.

ENGLISHMAN S QUEST IN CENTRAL AMERICA,

Hidden ire .sure from time immemorial lias teen a loccestone to draw adventurous spirits to the ends of the earth, and lias inspired many a tale or romantic hazard; and now conies the news that a young Englishman is preparing to plunge into the trackless bash of Guatemala in search of a temple containing venltli beyond the dreams of avarice.

The explorer is Captain *T. M. Robson,! of Cambridge, who intends to make his adventurous journey accompanied only by a few native bearers. Listening on the wireless recently he heard Dr: Thomas Gann tell the fascinating. story of his and other attempts (all unsuccessful) to find the ruins oif ,Nor-KarClian-BL>, “the great temple by the libile lake,” in Guatemala, Centra-Anieriii;i. Thereupon ha determined to search for the treasure.

C pt'in llo' son, who 's 35, and unmarried, set out fiom England in No vember. Once the. hush closes behind him he will have to reb- on copies of papers and mpips left by one/ Jchn fb v’"uh >el. Avho made the first attempt to roacih the treasure in 1867. and who died of'fever in the hush while making a further effort more than twenty years later.

“I •am going alone,” isaicl Captain Dobson in an interview, “and as for feeling lonelv, well, I n.m used to being alone, for I have had experience of the Afrio'n bush. “I have always been keen on exploring, and now tliat my army career is behind me I am undertaking this work. I hope to get back about April or May.” ,Dr. Gann spoke of the country

through which 'Captain Robson will have to fight h : s wa\ “Then is nothing but dense hush,” be said, “absolutely ’ uninha' it .'. Crm c'.irel s maps are uncertain, -for the country has never l>eeii surveyed.

“Captain Robson is not just a treasure hunter. •nd is ver/ anxious to find' new ruins. I think be may do very well even if lie does not find the actual treasure tern. !e. That is ‘a very long shot-,’ for so dens? is the bush that lie may p-’ss within 50 yards of it and n-ver see it. The nr ste -'o s .hidden s ire, as Dr. Gam ex-l ined hi bis wireleis talk, is possibly port of that hidden be Montezuma, tile la*t n tv? Em»eror of Mexi o, when Crt z : ir-a led South. Amcr'c. I ts exis'c'ii e w’s first made known to C mi h el (n British resident in Honduras! n 1867 hr two natives, who gave , him ornaments of gold which they said cime from the temple.