Captain Kidd, the plate fleet of Vigo, the pirates’ hoard of Trinidad, the galleon of Tobermory Bay — the famous treasure stories, followed to the documents that either support them or quietly demolish them.

Sundry Pirates and Their Booty

2 pages in this part of The Book of Buried Treasure.

Sundry Pirates and Their Booty

"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…

Sundry Pirates and Their Booty: Blackbeard

SUNDRY PIRATES AND THEIR BOOTY 401 to bury at least one sea-chest full of treasure in or-der to live up to the best traditions of his…

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