Books: Pieces of Eight

SEARCHING FOR PIRATE TREASURE IN Cocos ISLAND—Capt. Malcolm Campbell —Stokes ($2).

Many a buried treasure is still waiting to be found. Some scholars think Darius III of Persia cached a still-undiscovered gold hoard worth over $120,000,000.

Some people say they know where to find 25,000 in silver buried on Long Island, say it would take only two weeks, cost only $500. In Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all...

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