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“Do you suppose these things refer to buried treasure?” Nelse asked, excitedly, remembering what had been read.

“He probably thought he knew where some of the buccaneers had hidden their booty. Take ten old sailors together, and it is safe to say that five of them believe they can find gold which has been hidden by pirates.”

“Is what we read in the newspaper true?” Gil asked.

“There can be no question about it. There have been several reliable histories of these sea robbers written, and by looking in an encyclopædia you will learn how fragmentary this article is. New Segovia, in Honduras, was sacked by them. Maracaibo and Gibraltar, in the Gulf of Venezuela, were plundered by the buccaneers under the command of D’Ollonois. Morgan, with two thousand men, crossed the Isthmus to lay siege to Panama, and destroyed it. Coxon ravaged the coast of Peru, and I might go on telling of their crimes until next week without finishing the story. All this doesn’t prove, however, that your find contains a clew to buried gold.”