Hello Don Amigo nothing amiss with specie my friend Oro comes from long line of shepherds that once was the occupation that once made more money than gold mining. They rode on the proverbial sheep's back to wealth in Australia. Yes I do refer to the mining term and not the four legged kind.
embym I do have another yarn from your neck of the woods.
H-2 CHARLE Gotta be a Vietnam vet with that name like that?... For some reason I have to urge call for a fire mission? Khe Sanh keep springing into my head, It must be the fever? yes that Jamaican coffee with do nicely with a splash of rum?
Releventchair indeed you are correct in short hard money well done. In Australia the term specie was some times used to refer to shipment of gold as well as money. Another archaic term is spelter which was used in shipping manifests to describe gold shipment.
Not Peralta If you go a little crazy you have an excuse then as the heat must be boiling your brain right now. I know ya get used to it... er sort of At least ya can fry an egg without power. No wonder ya drinking Ice coffee. So I better get yacking then before the fevers comes back.....just when ya thinks its gone ya feel it creeping back on....
The Shipment was alleged 30000 dollars in Specie as the con was to rip Lloyd's off with the insurance. A shipping agent signed the original manifest for 30000 as that was it was insured for the Company Bolton Barron and Co it was claimed only had 19000 of the original shipment. So we have already conflicting amounts of money.
The schooner Fanny made a round trip over a month. Went to beach and dug up the treasure However a later newspaper report only 16000 recovered. In 11 bags of coin. Story ended right? Most like we still have a possible discrepancy of 3000 in coin plus because there was the shipping manifest and log book destroyed we do not know to its entirety if that was indeed all the money?
One question remains to be asked did they dig up all treasure? The Captain and his mate got busted by the Cook as he was not in on the deal squealed....about the scam....As you see on a sailing ships the cook always knows whats going on.
The much to learn from stories like these? They will never be famous like the super star legends by no means. These legends are for the small time hunters and there is no shame in that. In fact its small legends that often bear fruit? No large expedition outfit will ever take the time to go and look for it. And it is not worth the while or to spend ones life researching it. However it is a treasure story what I call a speculator. If you happened to be there at the time why not?
Cape San Lucas today is fashionable tourist resort. If one was down there on holiday I;d be packing a metal detector regardless.
The next newspaper story even gives a good indication where the 11 bags was recovered... The quest was there other bags or bag still there?
To be continued.....
Crow
