ILLUSTRATIONS

[ H. M. S. Lutine leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
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[ Treasure-seekers' Camp at Cape Vidal on African Coast ]

[ Divers searching wreck of Treasure-ship Dorothea, Cape Vidal, Africa ]

[ Captain Kidd burying his Bible ]

[ Carousing at Old Calabar River ]

[ The Idle Apprentice 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 ]

[ Thetis Cove in calm weather, showing salvage operations ]

[ Thetis Cove during the storm which wrecked the salvage equipment ]

[ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

[ Methods of manipulating the diving rod to find buried treasure ]

[ Gibbs and Wansley burying the treasure ]

[ The Portuguese captain cutting away the bag of moidores ]

[ Interview between Lafitte, General Andrew Jackson, and Governor Claiborne ]

[ The death of Black Beard ]