ce goes to sea

John Gardiner's sworn statement of the goods and treasure left with him
by Kidd

Governor Bellomont's endorsement of the official inventory of Kidd's
treasure found on Gardiner's Island

The official inventory of the Kidd treasure found on Gardiner's Island

A memorandum of Captain Kidd's treasure left on Gardiner's Island

Statement of Edward Davis, who sailed home with Kidd, concerning the
landing of the treasure and goods

The French pass or safe conduct paper found by Kidd in the ship _Quedah
Merchant_

Kidd hanging in chains

"The Pirates' Stairs" leading to the site of Execution Dock at Wapping
where Kidd was hanged

Sir William Phips, first royal governor of Massachusetts

Map of Hispaniola (Hayti and San Domingo) engraved in 1723, showing the
buccaneers at their trade of hunting wild cattle

Permit issued by Sir William Phips as royal governor in which he uses
the title "Vice-Admiral" which involved him in disastrous quarrels

The oldest existing print of Boston harbor as it appeared in the time
of Sir William Phips, showing the kind of ships in which he sailed to
find his treasure

An ancient map of Jamaica showing the haunts of the pirates and the
track of the treasure galleons

The town and bay of Tobermory, Island of Mull

Duart Castle, chief stronghold of the MacLeans

Ardnamurchan Castle, seat of the MacIans and the MacDonalds

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Diving to find the treasure galleon in Tobermory Bay

The salvage steamer _Breamer_ equipped with suction dredge removing a
sandbank from the supposed location of the _Florencia_ galleon in 1909

Scabbards, flasks, cannon balls, and small objects recovered from the
sunken Armada galleon

Stone cannon balls and breech-block of a breech-loading gun fished up
from the wreck of the _Florencia_ galleon

Sir George Rooke, commanding the British fleet at the battle of Vigo Bay

_The Royal Sovereign_, one of Admiral Sir George Rooke's line-of-battle
ships, engaged at Vigo Bay

Framework of an "elevator" devised by Pino for raising the galleons in
Vigo Bay

An "elevator" with air bags inflated

Cannon of the treasure galleons recovered by Pino from the bottom of
Vigo Bay

Hydroscope invented by Pino for exploring the sea bottom and
successfully used in finding the galleons of Vigo Bay

Lima Cathedral

Treasure-seekers digging on Cocos Island

Christian Cruse, the hermit treasure-seeker of Cocos Island

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