He didn’t trust them and they didn’t trust him.
You understand don't you that someone had to unload and haul and bury that treasure wherever it is, unless he killed those who did that work, he had to trust someone...
As we calculated above assuming that Kidd's estimate of the value in the 17th century was right and around 2/3 of it was gold I came to a minimum of 450kg. Quite a weight to move around! That means at least someone else must have known its location.
450kg is around 1000 pounds. Yes it’s a lot, but nothing crazy. A few trips with some help (man or beast) or multiple trips alone and that would do it. I’m not sure the value of gems back in the day so I can’t speak to that. Easier to carry and much lighter.
I already calculated it with gems (if not it would be 750kg). It would take around 20 trips for a man alone (possible but only from one place close on land to another). Donkey would be a possibility but on a small island you won't any find larger animals.
He distributed gifts to many people when he came but most if not all was collected by agents of the crown later. Even at Gardiner’s which I presume was the biggest part he did not bury it himself but just left the task with the owners.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say the guy was not bright. He was wealthy and wanted to go back to sea. He probably made a few mistakes along the way, especially killing that guy with the bucket. Dumb people don’t get to know the kingmakers of his day like he did.
This was far from the only mistake he did.
Yes they do if they are fools that can be used to whatever the powerful like to use them to! History is full of them. Just look at most governments these days. Fools all around being used by the one procent to cover their robberies of the rest of us!
Quite possible, but on the other hand they would have asked him to provide a list of those gifts he did. As he credibility was all he could rely on it would have been logical to report everything he gave away but we can't know for sure. What they collected was less then 7000£.
Calculating for what exactly? Did you read the terms of his contract? Did he need money? No he didn't, he was quite rich and a respected NY citizen with no need for such an adventure. He was a fool who never should have sailed those waters, both literally (he had no experience in the East) nor politically (his sponsors being the most important politicians of Britain when he left). Unfortunately for him the Tories came into power and his Whig friends had to get rid of him as he was an embarrassment to them.
As I said - he was a fool because of him entering in a world he didn't belong. How to say no? Well you don't. If you live long enough around people that speak of loyalty all the time you also learn to say "yes, but" - finding the right excuses is half of the job. Obviously he was untrained.
Only a fool can enter a den of thieves and think to survive it by telling the truth!
Well they had overdone their thievery a bit so the opposition took over (Tories), who knows maybe KIdd would have had a hero's welcome if his backers would have been still in power? Attacking EIC protected Indan ships was in their interest as their BoE was a EIC competitor.
Give this number to some psychic or remote viewer and let them "see" is and what is related to this number.
Your point is?
The truth is there - in between all those letters and documents, written between the lines. I mean those documents that have been proven authentic, also the state papers and even the novels of the 18th century are essential to understand the story.
