The Book of Buried Treasure

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.

The Lure of Cocos Island

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

The Lure of Cocos Island

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…

The Lure of Cocos Island: Spaniards

Islands. With these negroes we might have gone and settled at Santa Maria on the Isthmus of Darien, and have employed them in getting gold…

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