Lonely Island West of Peru ? COOK ?

[jeff of pa]

Cook Island ?

The Allentown Leader​

Sat, Sep 07, 1895 ·Page 1

 

[jeff of pa]

 

[Crow]

Sounds to me they went to Cocos island which is about 800 miles north west of Peru. the is nothing directly west of Peru.

Crow

 

[russau]

Heck , I'm game for a trip to go there!

 

[jeff of pa]

Sounds to me they went to Cocos island which is about 800 miles north west of Peru. the is nothing directly west of Peru.

Crow

I Would have Thought if COCOS They would have Used Australia Instead Of Peru as a Direction Point for the article

The Cook Island is West of Peru , However distances I Wouldn't Know

So THANKS !

 

[Crow]

Yeah I sailed it four times head east you sail in southern latitudes. And in the north your becalmed hardly get wind at all. Most sail boats make for marqueas Islands. It's long stretch of nothing.

Crow.

 

[Crow]

Marqueas Islands is about 7000 km from Peru
Cocos Island is about 800 miles of the coast of cost rica

There was so many treasure hunters visiting cocos at that time period many spun a bs just get some one to take them there on the hope to find treasure.

The names given seen familiar.
Crow.

 

[Red-Coat]

Sounds to me they went to Cocos island which is about 800 miles north west of Peru. the is nothing directly west of Peru.

Crow

The Galapagos group is pretty much due west of Peru, depending on whether you judge that from its total territory or coastline.

13 major islands in the group, 7 minor ones, and dozens of tiny rocky outcrops. Of the larger ones, Isla Fernandina is the most westerly, at about 790 miles from Tumbes on the northern tip of Peru’s coastline.

 

[Crow]

Could be also. If we look at the claimed date of these allege events. In 1852 there was failed insurrection in Equador that consisted of German American mercenaries. A ship was looted and plundered most those was involved was dead by the 1890s. So perhaps Redcoat you have found the obvious and possible location of this alleged treasure story.

Crow

 

[Crow]

Sorry Peru tempory invaded part of Equador at the time. I have a record of the ship somewhere.

Crow

 

[Crow]

Correction my memory is crap these days. It was political unrest on both countries at the time. There was influx of American adventurers and failed German colonists caused problems that never eventuated into full scale civil war. Ecuador jailed political prisoners on the island a ship was taken. I think from memory Swedish? And instigators was were executed but several escaped. That could be be perhaps part of the of the story?

Crow

 

[Red-Coat]

Could be also. If we look at the claimed date of these allege events. In 1852 there was failed insurrection in Equador that consisted of German American mercenaries. A ship was looted and plundered most those was involved was dead by the 1890s. So perhaps Redcoat you have found the obvious and possible location of this alleged treasure story.

Crow

The Galapagos Islands were a known safe haven for pirates and privateers (effectively pirates with a government licence) raiding Spanish ships along the South American coast between the 16th to 18th centuries. They’re in an ideal location as a refuge and supply base. There are also intricate volcanic cave systems which would be ideal for hiding treasure, particularly on the uninhabited islands (all but 4 of them). The uninhabited Santiago Island (also known as San Salvador and James Island) seems to have been the most visited and has an area still known today as “Buccaneer’s Cove”. Treasure legends abound, but nothing much in the way of concrete evidence.

Among the pirates/privateers known to have used the islands in the 17th and early 18th centuries are James Colnett (who drew up the first navigation charts for the islands in 1793), Richard Hawkins, and Woodes Rogers. The latter had also rescued the privateer Alexander Selkirk from the uninhabited Juan Fernandez Island off the coast of Chile in 1709 and taken him to the Galapagos.

Selkirk had been marooned at his own request more than 4 years earlier after becoming convinced the ship he was on was not seaworthy, which the captain denied (Selkirk was right; it sank soon afterwards) and was one of the possible inspirations for the fictional character Robinson Crusoe in Daniel Defoe’s novel of the same name.

There is also a local legend of a pirate known only as “Lewis” who it is claimed lived on San Cristobal Island in the Galapagos and had hidden his treasure on the nearby uninhabited Barrington Island (Isla Santa Fé). It’s said that he made occasional trips by rowing boat, returning with money whenever he needed it. However, that's too late to be connected to an 1895 expedition to find his treasure since he was still alive and living in the Galapagos at the time. it’s also unlikely that he left his treasure on the island. He was said to have fled to Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in Ecuador after the murder of San Cristobal’s owner Manuel Julián Cobos (which happened in 1904).

 

[Crow]

My apologies I have been switching between tablet smart phone laptop and desk top. And predictive text and my brain. I Miss things.

If the story is true the story as claimed by the paper 1852. Or around that date.

I have some documents I think they are on my lap top.

I hope this gets through coherent as I am wrestling with predictive text.

Crow