lton, a Yankee sloop called the _San
Antonio_ and transferred his treasure and part of his crew to her. The
_Quedah Merchant_ he convoyed as far as Hispaniola, now San Domingo,
and hid her in a small harbor with considerable cargo, in charge of a
handful of his men under direction of Bolton.

Then warily and of an uneasy mind, Captain Kidd steered his sloop for
the American coast and first touched at the fishing hamlet of Lewes at
the mouth of Delaware Bay. All legend to the contrary, he made no
calls along the Carolinas and Virginia to bury treasure. The testimony
of Kidd's crew and passengers cannot be demolished on this score,
besides which he expected to come to terms with Bellomont and adjust
his affairs within the law, so there was no sane reason for his
stopping to hide his valuables.

The first episode that smacks in the least of buried treasure occurred
while the sloop was anchored off Lewes. There had come from the East
Indies as a passenger one James Gillam, pirate by profession, and he
wished no dealings with the authorities. He therefore sent ashore in
Delaware Bay his sea chest which we may presume contained his private
store of stolen gold. Gillam and his chest bob up in the letters of
Bellomont, but for the present let this reference suffice, as covered
by the statement of Edward Davis of London, mariner, made during the
proceedings against Kidd in Boston:

That in or about the month of November, 1697, the Examinant came
Boatswain of the ship _Fidelia_, Tempest Rogers, Commander, bound on a
trading voyage for India, and in the month of July following arrived at
the Island of Madagascar and after having been there about five weeks
the Ship sailed thence and left this Examinant in the Island, and being
desirous to get off, enter'd himself on board the Ship whereof Capt.
Kidd was Commander to worke for his passage, and accordingly came with
him in the sd. Ship to Hispaniola, and from thence in the Sloop
_Antonio_ to this place.

And that upon their arrival at the Hoor Kills, in Delaware Bay, there
was a chest belonging to one James Gillam put ashore there and at
Gard'ner's Island, there was several chests and packages put out of
Capt. Kidd's Sloop into a Sloop belonging to New Yorke. He knows not
the quantity, nor anything sent on Shore at the sd. Island nor doth he
know that anything was put on Shore at any Island or place in this
Country, only two Guns of ... weight apeace or thereabout at Bl