ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
H. M. S. Lutine leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
Treasure-seekers' Camp at Cape Vidal on African Coast
Divers searching wreck of Treasure-ship Dorothea, Cape Vidal, Africa
Captain Kidd burying his Bible
Carousing at Old Calabar River
The Idle Apprentice goes to sea
John Gardiner's sworn statement of the goods and treasure left with him by Kidd
Governor Bellomont's endorsement of the official inventory of Kidd's treasure found on Gardiner's Island
The official inventory of the Kidd treasure found on Gardiner's Island
A memorandum of Captain Kidd's treasure left on Gardiner's Island
Statement of Edward Davis, who sailed home with Kidd, concerning the landing of the treasure and goods
The French pass or safe conduct paper found by Kidd in the ship Quedah Merchant
Kidd hanging in chains
"The Pirates' Stairs" leading to the site of Execution Dock at Wapping where Kidd was hanged
Sir William Phips, first royal governor of Massachusetts
Map of Hispaniola (Hayti and San Domingo) engraved in 1723, showing the buccaneers at their trade of hunting wild cattle
Permit issued by Sir William Phips as royal governor in which he uses the title "Vice-Admiral" which involved him in disastrous quarrels
The oldest existing print of Boston harbor as it appeared in the time of Sir William Phips, showing the kind of ships in which he sailed to find his treasure
An ancient map of Jamaica showing the haunts of the pirates and the track of the treasure galleons
The town and bay of Tobermory, Island of Mull
Duart Castle, chief stronghold of the MacLeans
Ardnamurchan Castle, seat of the MacIans and the MacDonalds
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Diving to find the treasure galleon in Tobermory Bay
The salvage steamer Breamer equipped with suction dredge removing a sandbank from the supposed location of the Florencia galleon in 1909
Scabbards, flasks, cannon balls, and small objects recovered from the sunken Armada galleon
Stone cannon balls and breech-block of a breech-loading gun fished up from the wreck of the Florencia galleon
Sir George Rooke, commanding the British fleet at the battle of Vigo Bay
The Royal Sovereign, one of Admiral Sir George Rooke's line-of-battle ships, engaged at Vigo Bay
Framework of an "elevator" devised by Pino for raising the galleons in Vigo Bay
An "elevator" with air bags inflated
Cannon of the treasure galleons recovered by Pino from the bottom of Vigo Bay
Hydroscope invented by Pino for exploring the sea bottom and successfully used in finding the galleons of Vigo Bay
Lima Cathedral
Treasure-seekers digging on Cocos Island
Christian Cruse, the hermit treasure-seeker of Cocos Island
Thetis Cove in calm weather, showing salvage operations
Thetis Cove during the storm which wrecked the salvage equipment
Sir Walter Raleigh
Methods of manipulating the diving rod to find buried treasure
Gibbs and Wansley burying the treasure
The Portuguese captain cutting away the bag of moidores
Interview between Lafitte, General Andrew Jackson, and Governor Claiborne
The death of Black Beard
THE BOOK OF BURIED TREASURE
Of all the lives I ever say, A Pirate's be for I. Hap what hap may he's allus gay An' drinks an' bungs his eye. For his work he's never loth: An' a-pleasurin' he'll go; Tho' certain sure to be popt off, Yo, ho, with the rum below!
In Bristowe I left Poll ashore, Well stored wi' togs an' gold, An' off I goes to sea for more, A-piratin' so bold. An' wounded in the arm I got, An' then a pretty blow; Comed home I find Poll's flowed away, Yo, ho, with the rum below!
An' when my precious leg was lopt, Just for a bit of fun, I picks it up, on t'other hopt, An' rammed it in a gun. "What's that for?" cries out Salem Dick; "What for, my jumpin' beau? "Why, to give the lubbers one more kick!" Yo, ho, with the rum below!
I 'llows this crazy hull o' mine At sea has had its share: Marooned three times an' wounded nine An' blowed up in the air. But ere to Execution Bay The wind these bones do blow, I'll drink an' fight what's left away, Yo, ho, with the rum below!
—An Old English Ballad.