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Kidd, or any of the rest of the free riders of the

sea who used to beat down the Windward Pas

sage.

Not at all. One reason why Reynolds is not

looking for that far-famed buried gold is that

the gentlemen of the black flag probably buried

mighty little of it. Instead of sinking it they

blew it. The cafes of Trinidad and Havana and

Port au Prince know the way thei blew it bet

ter than I do. Reynolds argues that it is a sure

thing that pirates were not in the habit of bury

ing money. They were not misers. They were

spendthrifts. All they wanted of money was to

spend it. They were not hoarding it up in stout

oaken chests sunk between two palms and a

rock for the benefit of their heirs and assignees.

The chances of their having any heirs and as

signees was altogether too remote.

So Reynolds is going hunting for sunken

treasure ships and we all know that plenty of

them have been sunk anl not so very far back

either. He is going to comb the rocks of the

Caribbean for the cargos of the old Spanish ships

that went down in storm and stress on those

coral reefs laden with the golden and silver slugs

from Central and South America. He says he

has some kind of scientific contraption that will

locate these cargoes the same as a good bird

dog will locate a covey of quail. Then when the

prize is located he has more scientific arrange

mients to extract the treasure from the coral en

tanglements and bring it to the surface.

According to Steve Reynolds somebody with

a lot of money is back of the proposition so that

a boat, or rather a steamer, has been engaged to

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The Washington herald. (1916). Washington, D.C., 1916-07-14. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045433/1916-07-14/ed-1/?sp=8

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Washington herald, 1916-07-14.