Hello Jeff,
Reading old posts I came through your interesting post. As you may know, I live in Dominican republic and I am very interested in everything what´s united with this area. Concerning the part of the aticle that speaks about "....."Golden Hind" which was bound for England sunk in 1502 close to Cap Haitien with a cargo of gold and silver worth $ 5,000,000. Somewhere in the coral encrusted hull is a 3,000 - ounce gold nugget.....".
I would like to make some commence, here. It seems to me highly improbable that in 1502 some ship from the Caribbean was bound for England. First English ship appeared in these waters almost 30 years later. The first 40 years after the discovery this region belonged practically to Spain. The most intrigued is a information about the name of the ship and huge gold nugget. Nevertherless the year of 1502 corresponds perfectly to the sunken Spanish fleet of Francisco Bobadilla. Various historians also mention huge gold nugget of 225 ounce to be on the board of flag ship of this fleet where Francisco Bobadilla itself, first Spanish rebel Roldan and three major Taino casiques also were (all of them were drawn in hurricane). The flagship´s name was "El Dorado", fairly similar to the translation of "Golden Hind". The probem is that all the ships (23 in total from 32) went down on the eastern tip of La Española island (actual Dominican Republic), just before entering Mona Channel. It is on the southeastern side of the island, Cap Haitien is on the contrary on the northwest of our island. What´s the hell is ging on here....?
Lobo
Gotta love that West Coast gold!
