Old documents find shows the treasure is not buried in Cocos island but in another island

Why, in spite of the many research carried out on Cocos island since more than one century, this fabulous treasure was never discovered? Albert Mata, a french searcher specialist of the Cocos island yarns and generally in the pirate's treasures stories, brings today new lights on this question that any treasure hunter impassioned by the pirate's treasures was posed one day. We want to speak here about the researchers, amateurs or professionals, who know a minimum the history of the treasures of Cocos island and forwardings of the researchs which proceeded there. These only will be able to understand the importance of the discovery which will be revealed to you in this article for the first time.

When to the others, those which reject automatically the existence of the aforesaid treasures by simple ignorance of the historical facts, or simply because the Cocos island is too far from their usual hunting ground and this simple reason satisfy some, these can pass their way!

HISTORY OF AN INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY: Costa-Rica, I know this country almost like my pocket. Since my first hunting for the treasure in Cocos island in 1981, I never ceased going back there, spending long months sometimes there to peel files and libraries, accumulating a mass of information on the history of the area and in particular on the stories of pirates and hidden treasures. The following stage then consisted to me in returning on the ground, alone or with team-members, in order to flush out the treasure of which I had succeeded in locating with more or less exactitude the spot. Today, all false modesty put aside, I regard myself as the French specialist in the history of the Cocos island and Costa-Rica treasures. For the stories of treasures in Costa-Rica are legion. The majority of them refer to the Cocos island which, according to the great (dead) french journalist and historian ès Treasures Robert Charroux, contains the greatest number and the richest terrestrial treasures of the World. But, if the justified reputation of the Cocos island attracted considerable researchers of which some very famous, it should be known that there are other treasures in this country that Christophe Colomb baptized, not without reason, Costa-Rica (Rich Coast). Obviously, those being much less known they are thus much less required, which is increasingly more interesting for a treasure hunter than to pass after the pack. However three years ago, whereas I had just finished a forwarding of treasure hunt close to the peninsula of Osa (in the south of the country) for the account of a wellknown German magazine, I decidedto benefit from the end of my stay in the country to continue my historical research about Cocos island. After having examined the local files where I did not discover any new and extraordinary thing (it is necessary to say that I had peeled them already well in each one of my passages in the country), I returned visit to one of my friends writer, large specialist in the mysteries of this island.This one, knowing and sharing my passion of the stories of treasures, revealed me that while classifying the innumerable files inherited from his father journalist, it had fallen on something which had appeared extremely interesting to him and which it asked me to study before any conclusion. Intrigued by its mysterious and very unusual tone, I take with respect the worn out dossier of paperboard and with a lost color that it tightened me. At the interior was a thin file made up of some pages of fine paper of another time and reserves together by an old agraphe rusted by the years and the moisture of the tropical climate. The worthy document begin with a title: "The Last of the Pirates" and included five pages of text writen in English language and typed with a typewriter of another age. Before attacking me with his reading, I glanced at the pages quickly, seeking eyes a precision on his origin or about his author. Curiously, I found there nothing which could inform me: this text which obviously reported a very old history indicated, at first sight, neither the name of its author, neither the date of its realization, nor no geographical mention on the place where he was written. They were not there the usual behavior of a journalist or of a writer for whom this kind of details usually counts for it authenticates his work. The only details which struck me before to have taken knowledge in detail of the text itself were the mysterious signature located at the end of the text: " Explorer" (more one pseudonym than a name) and a small handwritten note which I allotted to the author and initialed " C.R. ". That note of one line of tight writing intend to bring a precision to the text itself. But most mysterious of the unit resided in the sixth and ultimate sheet, annexed to the five firsts by another agraphe equally rusted. In this sort of appendix to the text himself was drawn by hands a plan representing obviously an island with a peak in his center and, on a certain place, a mark indicating the exact spot where a cave must be found. On the right side and the lower part of the plan which I would rather describe as a "chart " because of the depths in fathoms mentioned around the island was a certain number of handwritten mentions apparently intended to bring complementary details for the good comprehension of the searcher. They described the subject of the document, where it was made, who did it, when, and for what intention. After this first summary examination, I launched out then in a complete and attentive reading of all the documents.

The story reported an affair which I knew very well: the stealing in 1821 of the wealth of Lima by pirates during the blockade of the port of Callao by Lord Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dundonald. He was then the Admiral in chief who was in command of the Chilean navy from the years 1819 to 1823 when the wind of the Revolution was flowing in the old spanish Colonies of the New World. As it is generally believed, the treasure composed with the vast hoard of gold and silver destinated to the King of Spain and with the Clerical riches of the fifty churches of Lima was embarked onboard the peaceful British merchantman "Mary Dear" laying in the harbor of Callao. Once in the sea with the treasure, it is generally admitted that the captain and the crew of the Mary Dear killed the escort and sailed out to Cocos island where they buried the treasure in Chatham Bay. No long after, themselves where catch by a spanish or a peruvian or an english man-of-war and all were hanged safe one or two, of which the captain, who escaped. After that, the surviving man (or men?) never could, for what reason nobody knows, come back to the island and recover the Treasure. Let's see now the exact copy in his full and for the first time published of the account "The Last of the Pirates":

If you wish to contact the author of this tale he can be reached at albert.mata@worldonline.fr

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Daryl Friesen Spindle Explorations www.bc-alter.net/dfriesen

• Re: Daryl Richard Walburn 11:08:02 8/07/99 (0)