ILLUSTRATIONS[ H. M. S. Lutine leaving Yarmouth Roads, Oct. 9, 1799, on her last voyage . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece][ 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 ]