The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day

Between the western Highlands of Scotland and the remote, cloudy Hebrides lies the large island of Mull on a sound of that name. Its bold headlands are crowned with the ruins of...

"You captains brave and bold, hear our cries, hear our cries, You captains brave and bold, hear our cries. You captains brave and bold, though you seem uncontrolled, Don't for t...

"Seven years were gone and over, Wild Roger came again, He spoke of forays and of frays upon the Spanish Main, And he had stores of gold galore, and silks and satins fine, And f...

Doomed to an infamy undeserved, his name reddened with crimes he never committed, and made wildly romantic by tales of treasure which he did not bury, Captain William Kidd is fa...

As the under dog in a situation where the most powerful influences of England conspired to blacken his name and take his life, Captain William Kidd, even at this late day, deser...

The flaw in the business of treasure hunting, outside of fiction, is that the persons equipped with the shovels and picks and the ancient charts so seldom find the hidden gold....

In our time the golden word _Eldorado_ has come to mean the goal of unattained desires, the magic country of dreams that forever lies just beyond the horizon. Its literal signif...

The _Lutine_ was not the only treasure-laden frigate lost by the British navy. The circumstances of the wreck of the _Thetis_ in 1830 are notable, not so much for the gold and s...

Of all the freebooters' treasure for which search is still made by means of curious information having to do with charts and other plausible records, the most famous are those b...

No treasure yarn is the real thing unless it glitters with ducats, ingots, and pieces of eight, which means that in the brave days when riches were quickest won with cutlass, bo...

The Isles of Shoals, lying within sight of Portsmouth Harbor on the New Hampshire coast, are rich in buried treasure legends and rocky Appledore is distinguished by the ghost of...

Washington Irving was so thoroughly versed in the lore of buried treasure that the necromancy of the divining rod, as a potent aid to this kind of industry, had received his stu...

The language has no more boldly romantic words than _pirate_ and _galleon_ and the dullest imagination is apt to be kindled by any plausible dream of finding their lost treasure...

Harbored in the stately edifice of the Royal Exchange, down in the heart of London City, is that ancient and powerful corporation known to seafaring men the world over as Lloyd'...

It will be recalled that Lord Bellomont, in writing to his government of the seizure of Kidd and his treasure, made mention of "a Pirate committed who goes by the name of Captai...

Faith, imagination, and a vigorous physique comprise the essential equipment of a treasure seeker. Capital is desirable, but not absolutely necessary, for it would be hard indee...