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TIIEWIIITE LADY
OR, WHAT THE THRUSH SAID.
CHAPTER SSII.
The 'following morning—it was Satur-
day, and pay-day with moat of the troops
in garrison—I took a stroll round the•
barrack rooms to see how the fellows
looked.; for we were to embark in a few
hours; and I was feeling strangely nerv-
pus, and strangely eager that the others
should be as nervous as I.
Our company had a dissipated and rak-
ish air, and showed tousled heads, blotchy
aces, and bleary eyes in great profusion..
1 went into Joyce's room.
Andy White, very red in the face and
sleepy in the eyes, was standing in the
centre of the room with his shako on
wrong aide before, trying to stuff a flask
of whisky, a quarter of a pound of thick
twist, threw clay pipes, a box of black-
ing, a piece of soap.. and a pack of cards
into his expense pouch, which would not
.9wld half of them; Jimmy Hamilton was
'walking up and down, dressed inmarch-
ing order, with a small pooket mirror
in one band and a razor in the other,
calmly shaving himself Cursing Scott
and Taffy Boberes—a littleWelshman—
were seated cross-legged on a form play,
ing brag for pennies; Jack 'Rothwell --a
Yorkshireman --was walking about in his
shirt sleeves, with a bland smile on his
face and a basin of beer in his hand,
singing:
Me name is Joa Moogins, a farmer am I,
I yens went a coortin', and felt rather
shy; •
and Cocky Ross, Blimme Bates, Tiger
Lyons, and Soft Jee, all lay snoring in
alcoholic torpor on the floor. It was 9
a,m., and the battalion was to fall in at
twelve. Joyce had gone for the color -
sergeant.
Presently the color -sergeant came up
stairs laughing, with his cap very much
on the back of his head, and his eyes
winking and bloodshot. He had a cigar
in his mouth, which he had forgotten to
light, and I noticed that his gaiters were
buttoned on the wrong legs. But he woke
up the sleepers by kicking them; and he
ordered Smith and Roberts to put up their
cards, and then turned to Andy White.
"Put that rubbish into some other
place," he said, `and don't be making a
baggage waggon of your ball pouch."
"Whist, sergeant," said Andy, "it's worse
than a chess puzzle to stow my kit away.
I've had to leave out my Bible to make
room for the thick twist; and I'm think-
ing the Prayer -book and some of the
cleaning tackle 'ill have to go next, or
where the devil am I to put the whisky
flask?" And he opened his valise to see
what could be done.
The color -sergeant went round the
rooms and got the men together. There
was much scrubbing of backs with rough
towels and holding of hot heads under
cold taps, but half an hour before the
time to fall in we were all out on the
parade ground, chatting and laughing,
and ready for anything Fate could send.
It was while we were standing idle in
this way that we caught the first whiff
of the corning excitement. Our barracks
stood above the town level, and from the
square' we had a view of a broad road
leading from Fratton past our gate and
into '-Portsmouth. From, the far end of
thee: -road came a•. faint,buzzing,esquealing
aylikenittee at the first sound of '• which the
Dorsetshires' pricked uptheir ears and
showed signs of restiveness. It was the
whinny of the Highland pipes. The Ban-
nockshire Highlanders, who were to leave
for the Crimea on Monday, had just ar-
rived by rail, and were marching on the
town.
Our men crowded up to the railings to
of the crowd, came the "champ-chainp,
Champ -theme of the marching feet in
steady rhythm.
I began now to see what Joyce had
meant by his words the night before. The
brilliant victory of Alnia had roused the
nation to a pitch of high enthusiasm. The
war was the one engrossing teeth.- of
thought and conversation, and we, going.
out to fight for our country, were the.
centre of a great ovation,
Ali. Portsmouth was out. The streets
were arched with flowers and festooued
with colored. flags. The windows, the bal-
conies, the very roofs along our route
were packed with people. The crowd up-
on the roads and pavements was so dense
that we had hardly room to march, The
excitement rose to fever point. The. pare
ple cheered continuously with a crash-
ing, booming sound like the beating of
surf on a rocky shote, the bands -we had
six . of them—played their loudest, flow -
ors were atrewn upon the 'column as it
advanced. Many ladies in' the balconies
wept from sheer excitement, Our men
grew wild, the blood seemed to dance in
our veins. We laughed, many of us, in.
a fierce,: exultant way. Even Joyce looked
flushed and proud.
As we came in sight of the Dock Gates
the crash of the bands grew louder, and
the colonel gave a signal for a cheer. Tfp
went the bauble -stick of the big 'drum -
major, and the Doxsetshires gave • tongue.
It was a mighty shout; short and sharp
and solid., and cleft the general hubbub
like the clang of a close volley. Far a
moment the crowd was silent, and the
tramp of feet and clangor of music filled
the air, and "then with a crash the bells
of all the churches rang out, the orowd
began to cheer again, and the cannon
pealed from the batteries above us.
The exeitement became almost delir-
ious. Soldiers of other regiments, sailors
of the fleet, women, and civilians of all
classes pressed into the ranks and shook
our hands and forced presents., upon us.
Wore we not going to the war?"
It was at this moment. when the blood
seemed boiling in my head, and my heart
wes keeping time to the frantic throbbing
of the drums, that I became conscious of
the fact that a woman had forced her way
into the ranks, and was marching between
me and Scotty Cameron.
She was a tall girl, rakish and smart,
of a gipsyish cast of countenance. hand-
some, singing, and
was 8
wild. She g g,
m but
so e
had linked her arms in ours. I can, see
her now in her dark blue dress, with her
shining black hair tumbled in a mass of
curls under her broad white hood, her
lips parted, her teeth gleaming, and her
heavy chin held up, displaying her noble
throat.
When the sergeant told her to leave
the ranks, and motioned her to quit her
hold upon our arms, she shook her head
and laughed.
"I have as much right here as any of
you," she cried; "I'm a knapsack girl, and
could carry a rifle too. These boys are
my comrades, and I'm going with them."
And she held her place, keeping step
with the column, and marching wild and
free, with her brave, mad face smiling,
and her bright eyes rolling defiantly
around..
Nor did she leave us until, we reached
the gates, when the.guard;, foreed her
.back, .itiut.r site i;}Ok qif ; ri «e'
cheered. *ood on board,and the
And then we trooped
band formed up on the quarter:.deok and
played "Rule 'Britannia, and the crowd
yelled, and the sailors manned the yards,
the harbor shook to the crash of cannon,
and Joyce pointed out to me young Simp-
son. the junior lieutenant, taking leave
u
sec them. The pipes grew louder and of his widowed mother.Poor lady, she held her boy soldier in
shriller; the dense, quivering mass of her arms, and sobbed upon his shoulder.
dark green, scarlet and black, crowned Her other son was shot dead at the Alma,
with flashing halos of steal, drew nearer
}g
hither
I
and became more clear. The boom of the and now her youngest was going—whither
to what? Well, she was taken off by
big drum, the rattle of the side drums her friends with many other weeping wo-
men, to catch hold of us; the wild skir• men and young Simpson walked away
ling, singing, droning of the pipes became biting his lip and twisting his fingers in
triumphant and defiant; the tramp of the his sash, and the vessel swung from her
feet fell soft but heavy on the moist moorings and the cheers redoubled, and
earth; and the splendid column, with high up, on a , battery wail, the most
glittering arms and dancing plumes, and prominent figure in the whole crowded
twinkling of white gaiters moving cries- piotuxe, I saw the gipey girl, her black
cross, and swaying of tasselled philabegs Darla dying in the wind and her long
and sombre plaids and tartans, swept on arm raised above them waving the white
below our eyes. And then, as the guard hood as a signal of farewell.
presented arms to them, and as the __•
colonel drooped his sword, our fellows CHAPTER XIV.
found their voice for the Brat time and The weather was splendid and.the. men,
soot up a ringing cheer, to which the
Soots responded, in high spirits, crowded the decks of the
This seemed to rouse the Dorsetshires. troopship as she moved slowly away from
They shook themselves in their heavy har- the shore. There was plenty to see, end
nese, and went back cheery and alert to all new to us—the still blue water. the
their own company parades, where the curving belt of yellow sand, the serried
sergeants called the roll; the shouting of .batteries, and the low green hills making
the names, and the dropping answers of up a bright and pleasing picture.
"here" and "here" sounding strangely The band still played on our deck, and
throughthe fading strains of -Janney as we passed the rakish gunboats and
Cope,' which the breeze brought back stately line•of-battle ships by Spitheed,
from the way the Highlanders had gone. salutes were fired, and the blur jackets
But at Iast the drums rolled, and the cheered. For we were going to the war,
regiment formed up, and the colonel trot• and, we felt proud of ourselves.
ted off towards the 'gate,and turning in But pride goeth before a fall, In lees
hie saddle gave the command to march, than an hour from our leaving the docks
and the bass drum banged, and -the brass the swaying and, even worse, the rising
crashed out, and the drum -major twirled and falling of the vessel became disagree -
his gorgeous eane, and spread his hand- ably manifest, and the faces of the Dorset
come form, and a great crowd of children boys began, to be "aickliedo'er with the
swarmed in front like flies, with a buzzing pale cast of thought."
noise, and the tramping feet fell "eranch, Gradually the crowd on the upper deck
eranch" upon the gravel, and we were decreased, and those who remained grew
of. silent. We were out in the open now,
,
The crowd at the gate was something with the blue hills of the Isle of `Wight
tremendous, and loud shouts greeted us visible on our port side, and the low
as the head of the column came in view. batteries of the Hampshire coast to star -
There is something contagious in the en- board. I was standing by the side watch-
thusiaem of a multitude, and already our ing a yacht as she rode lightly over the
men began to grow excited. Moreover, low waves, her white sails reflected in the
mine -tenths of the battalion were in liquor. oily pale blue surface of the sea, and the
Jack Bothwell shuffled his feet and bright spray swirling past her bows,
seemed tempted to deflect; Corney the when I felt a sudden dizziness. The white
Grig swaggered in his gait like an oper- sails turned green, the blue sky flashed
atie tenor. Andy White walked with one red, the deck seemed to sink from under
shoulder forward, and look of unna- my feet, and I clutehod Joyce by the arm •
tural solemnity on his fat red face; to save myself.
lillamara laughed softly to hitnaelf as he 'Hallo, old chap," said Phil, cheerily,
marched, shaking his head at intervals as "better get below and find a pair of sea
if some subtle joke were hidden in his lege."
mind; and the color -sergeant, who seemed Haw! haw! haw!" roared a great ma -
unusually flushed about the neck, kept hogany-faced old salt, who stood behind
turning round to perform a series of cora- us; "chuck us your baoey, mate, you'll, not
plioated and mysterious winks. want it to -day, and go to the sawbones
Passing through the • gate I noticed for a little castor ile."
in any trivial things, details of the pie- 1 had no heart to answer. Joyce helped
ture whieh printed themselves upon my me to get below, and I didn't see sky or
Mind in the fraction of a second. The water again for twenty-four hours.
Chill, grey shadow of the archway cure- When, after a day and night of help-
ing 'atpoa the sunny, red gravel; the less and abaeot illness, I was shaken up
heaped-up pyramid of dingy clothing and be the orderly -corporal, looking himself
faces strangely pink; the noisy, waver. like a bad case from a malaria hospital
ing, scrambling mob of min and women and was ordered to "fall its for watch,'!
swarming all along the road; the wet I was so weak I could hardly stand and
roofs of ,the town in the distance shining my head seemed to spin and hum like a
against the banks of purple cloud; the top. But orders are orders. I crawled
spires dim and taper, with a glint of gold and climbed and scrambled up the coin -
on their points; a shadowy forest of panion, and was dragged on eta by a
Meets and :spars behind them, and close good-humored bluejacket, who held vie by
to my elbow two huge, red-faced sailors, the collar and hip and bade me "open
with their great mouths open cheering, my grog -shop and take a drink o'' the
and a lame, old man .holding up a fra- breeze.
gfle little girt, pansy -eyed and lily -cheek- As lie spoke I looked round, The bill-
ed, to look at the soldiers going to the wark of the vessel, having gone up and
war, • up until it hid the sea, began to 'sink
"By' your left, men. Steady, steady," again, and I saw, moving right down up -
tried .tae adjutant, in a sharp tone. 00 t;e, a huge sage -colored hill of water,
"hang, bang, bang!" went the big bass crested with white foam, a,nd swelling in
drum, Nobby Clark, the drummer, on his its advance, as if alive. It was the first
mottle; while the pioeolo screamed, and great wave I had seen, and I gave rifeself
the noreets hiared, and the side drums ! up for lost. Clutching the sailor in ray
r; " •d and throbbed,and through the arms, I groaned, "God help us!" and shut
M the magic, and tbratgb the bulz a my eyes,
ache next instant:
Che dee with the
my etre, and a feoli,�
caused me to suspect,
sisted in my maveme
from Jack's fist.
However, • I strue le
holding' on by the
the wave and foil
up the side at
water, over thee,
a sort of mictt ' +
e$'er
leap �
leap
of the wato
catch my
plunged
ter+ribie•
opened
.again shut
ed them;a rude
Collar, and I was u.d
held against the tiulyarle?
"Why, blast my' straps :x;
said a hoarse voice, "if tbd
ain't a-goin' to ,say is pra.Ss
weather, Why stop nr grog 1
ain't afeared, Stand up, pia'
Davy Jones 11 not take yen,'
men for the axskin" .
I11 as 1 was,this iubulti3
to raise :any anger, and stag
a gun carriage, I gasped ,
can stand ftp again, you b
your °yea,', „•
"'Haw! haw! haw!" roared
ler, "that's a better mettle;
like a man's talk. But geOt
now, boy, and 1'11 swab the
you when you find your seal,
'Pall in the watch, said 't
corporal, faintly, and amidst
and laughter of the bluejaehe .
forty ghastly, dishevelled, :totferin
ers reeled into a broken line, an
swaying and holding on to ea o uer'
while. they answered their na s; trier
'which they crawled about the eck leak-
ing pitiful efforts to look as i,fd',t'hey• 'wen,
of some use.
Down on. the lower docke the . men Of
the Dorsetshire Regiment Net*ina MI_
erable plight. Not one in, fifty had ever
been at sea before,'and they lay' in heaps
upon the bare . boards, grovelling. and
helpless, the 'sailors striding over them
for lubbery swabs and land crabs, and the
vessel all the while rolling and pitchi4ig
horribly. ere?" Y asked the corporal
�yhere are
of the watch.
Heshuddered, and said, "In a better
place than we're going, to. We're just en-
tering the Bay of Biscay."
I shuddered in my turn, and looked
around me. On every hand the huge grey
waves were leaping and rolling, „While
overhead the ragged rain clouds .raced•
along betwen tie and the' pallid Elsie The
wet sails were bellied out by the' wind,
the cordage creaked, the engines throbbed,.
the churned surf rushed past the shits
side with, a roar, and round and4;ro
the great gulls flew screaming, The se
was a painful contrast to our gran*
umphal march through' Portsmouth .- I
huddled myself up in my great -coat and
settled clown to endure nay misery as. well
as I might.
My philosophy was severely tested. By
sundown the wind was blowing a gale..
the sky was clouded over, the sea, is d.
risen, the ship was plunging and roll;- r
through the flying spume and rattle g
hail, and I was stretched out supine n
wretched amongst a heap of prostrr e
comrades,' not one of'whom could hal;
stood upright if the ship had been arct-
ing.
For three days and eights we lay,ith• .t
in this helpless state, the weather all
time being dirty and -the sea •tempe 't
ous; hat afterwards re
c me,L rt?Yri
• d tt,rnnlder bgit; re ate
qtr,
*`f ,1y- rang.-
r . Y
On the meriting .of the fburth' ''a
awoke early, and was surprised. to 1f,7__
myself hungry. Well, hungry is not the
word—I was ravenous. T get upon mg
feet and went to seek Joyce. r
He,avas up acid about, and looked quite
fresh and cheerful. Ile gave me some
hot' tea, a red herring, and some ship bis-
euit, on which I breakfasted with great
gusto; and afterwards took a salt-wate.�r
bath, getting one of the sailors to pyla
on me, to my great refreshment. I then
cleaned up my traps, and went on deck
clothed and in my right mind.
The other men were coming round, tbo,
and .the officers had ordered a parade=to.
pull us. together, We had found our sea
legs, and, which was a thing to be Fjrill
more grateful for, our sea stomachs.
Still, it was dull. The weather was
grey and cool, and no land in sight for
days. We amused ourselves as well •as
we could, In the evenings the band• play-.
ed on deek, and -we got up some gibes
of cricket and single -stick, and ceoasion'
ally joined the sailors in some of their
rough sports, in which hard knocks end
plenty of noisewere the chief attracti s.
But it Ives dull, and we got, tired of :,he.
arched grey "sky and the heaving gay
waves, and the monotonous thumping.of
the engines, and the all-pervading smell of
oil and tar.
We passed Gibraltar late at night, end
saw only the loom of the land, the great
Ike a cloud on otir 1te,
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ECONOMY IN 13UILDIIv u.
Does every . farmer realize that a
square building can be built cheap-
er than one in the shape of
an ob-
long,
b
long, although the floor space is'the
same? To understand this,, observe
a particular example, writes Mr.
L. Edie. .
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In a square building that mea-
sures 40x40 feet, there will be 1,-
600 square feet of floorspace, the
distance. around the building will
be 160. feet, or there will be sides
to the equivalent of 160 feet wide.
But if, as is' often the case, the
buildings. were made 100x16 feet,
the distance around the building
e ti .tai. idth of tl sur sides
square feet;
Although these two buildings.' will
ave the same floor _ ;e, ; yet the
an will have to pay; building
2 feet more of. sides, . ablong
uilding, There will.be` a' similar
Waste in the construction of the
roof of the, oblong barn.
Supposing that 1,000 square feet
of lumber would need to be bought,-
the lumber alone would cost about
$30 at least. When the extra.labor
used in the building, the cost of re-
pairs and. the interest on this sum
are considered, anyone Can under-
stand that it is an expense to be
avoided;
Probably this matter is of the
most importance in the construe -
tion - of poultry houses and dairy
buildings; although even in such-
buildings
uch
buildings the form cannot always
be made square, yet the arrange -
anent roan be made in such a way
that there will be no needless.
,.ppeartng 1 waste
with a winking belt of lights at its hese, In , arrangingfields the same
and after that beheld nothing but dry
and water and passing ships fox nine or' points- should. be observed. In two
A ways. ten -acre fields; one 40x40 rods, :the,
Joyce, who had 'settled down into 'vis
usual quiet cheerfulness, took things v ty ether 80x20 rods, the former* • will
easily, and never seemed hipped or ad require 1,600 rods of fence, the tat-.
except on one or two occasions, ,when, as ter 2 Q00 rods. This extra, 40 rods
we walked about the deck together under e
1
of fence would cost about $10 and
the stil night skv, he talked to: me of
his sweetheart in England. At these tinter rile annual repairs about $2.
he became very grave, and would 'tsll c
I was better off than he : after all, sic : • .'his may seem a simple matter
1 had left no one behind•=„o suffer lit ;ray kind yet a litre forethought in this
absence, or, as he expressed it, 'to be
wounded if 1 wounded, and hiiltk! if ,way ay would save many farmers no
1 was killed." .$ small amount of money.
When he spoke like that I did iny list
to lead himinto more agreeable: i'eteer- --'
ration, but he always saw my desipu; tad.
would laugh and ask me whether 1 OM
felt as bloodthirsty as on the day tvlein
we got the route.
To tell the truth, my thirst for; Ian
had quite left me, and if 'I ever
of the work we were beiit upoxt,
with a half -defined feeling; of regret,;•.
1 must aeon stand faee to face Vith >a
against whom. I had no animus it ,lti1
to be killed.
But as we drew nearer to cul,•
tion, :something happened to
our men the old sentiment .at,
miss.
(To be continued,l
Money jingles very c
wise people spetxt it,
There was a youn
thought ~x
and descent,
man who thought that
was snobbish, The, 't
,dancer together, and ti
ed .her .hobby` a,
"What was your th,
rupted the young m
was .a gentleman."
what did he do for a
young, man thought
the girl came rig
was your. father I"
father raised hogs
But what did he
WATERING COWS.
Inasmuch as it has been proved
by actual experiment that the av-
erage cowwill drink 1,600 pounds
of water a month, great care should
be exercised to provide her with
water. That is true enough, but
there are two other points that need
to be also included.
One—This water should be pure.
impure water is just as hurtful to
the health and vigor of a cow as it
is to a human being. It produces
disease just the same. It reduces
the amount of milk the cow would
naturally give.
Two—The water should be easy of
access for the cow, both in the pas-
ture and the barnyard. With a
large herd of cows, say 30 to 50, it
is a good plan to have two or three
watering tanks in the yard, where
the cows are watered out of doors.
It is worth while also to have a man
remain in the -yard while they are
drinking, to drive., the piaster cows
frgn:t ° tai's.asonas theydrrnkeir firlAin turning
cows out to drink, it ia" a good plan
to : first turn out the , underlings
and the most timid ones, giving
them plenty of time to get what
Water they want undisturbed. Lots
of money can be lost with a herd of
cows by being indifferent or careless
on -this water question.
ECONOMICAL .FEEDING.
• it is not always the heaviest feed-
er, who get the best result. Every
art°mal ,requires certain nutrients,
tli t enable it to perform its best
work. If these nutrients are not
supplied in the proper proportion,
it Means that the animal must con-
siame and adjust larger amountsof
deme of the elements that it can
usj, in order to get enough of the
others. Economical feeding Lequires
that nutrients be supplied to ani -
map' in the proportion needed. As
a ;•rr.ule, farm feeds are lacking in
P
lbtein. If one is feeding corn-
st" lks or wild hay, the farm grains
I supply eilough protein to meet
animals' needs for best work.
is is especially true of dairy
Sws and young stock. When this
rm of roughage must be fed, some
ich feed as bran, middlings or oil -
real must form a reasonable pro-
ortion of the grain ration, in order
at the . protein supply may be
maintained..
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PIRATES' GOLD RIDDEN ON
LONELY' ISLAND.
TWO Ladies Said to Know Where
It is. ,Bidden on Cocos Ip•
land.
Once more Cocos, a tiny islnnd'i,n
the Pacific' Ocean, is to; he visited
by an expedition in search of the
fabulous treasures reputed to have
been buried there by pirates.
Two ladies, who were,on the is-
land last year, are said to: have
located the precise position of the..
hoard, whickit successive parties
have failed to discover, and a syndl r
care has been formed to pursue in- i
vestigations. At Plymouth, Eng-
land, the steamer Melrrlore, a ves-
sel with a ten -knot capacity hither-
to engaged. in the cross -Channel
traffic, is fitting out for the search,
and will shortly leave the port far
Barry to take in coal preparatory
to sailing for Panama, where she
will pick up the two ladies said to
hold the key to the treasure.
Thence she will go to Cocos, 500
miles <south-west of Panama. • In-
cluded in the personnel of the ex-
pedition is a cinematograph opera-
tor to secure films of the treasure
seekers at work.
Cocos, says the London Daily
Chronicle, was invested with its
e
romance of a buried treasure near-
ly a century ago. but though there
have been twenty different expe-
ditions to the island, the secret of
the whereabouts of the hoard has
remained impenetrable so far..
A HAUL OF £12,000,000.
It was in 1821 that the notorious
pirate Bonita, having ravaged the
West Indies and -the . West Coast of.
South America, engineered his last
great eoup of capturing the Mexi-
can treasure. The worth of this
haul is estimated at 12 millions, and
he buried it on Cocos, where a
fierce fight ensuing among his cut-
throat crew, he left 15 of them dead
ere he set sail for the West Indies.
His infamous career ended in that
region.
Fourteen years later the British
barquentine Mary Dier (Captain
Thomson) was lying in the harbor
of Callao when the Spaniaxds, who
wdke being bvie a' from Pe, ' , , ,de- l
lcled to con"sig , nl
c`n ' -their treasure,: ��"cee`
valued at . £4,000,000, to her hold
for ..safety. The honesty of the cap
-fain and crew melted away' before.
the vision of undreamt wealth, and,
murdering the guard whom the
trusting Spaniards had left in
charge of the riches, they slipped
away from Callao in the darkness.
This treasure was also hidden at
Cocos before the Spanish man -o' -
war sent in pursuit capturedthe
captain and his orew,'most of whom
they shot. • The captain escaned this
fate, and confided the position of
the treasure to. a Canadian, named ,,
Keating, who, legend states, twice
recovered valuables to the amount
of £2,000.
PREVIOUSSEARCHES.
Thus Cocos has,is,cquired the re-
putation of a veritable Treasure Is-
land
sland and, like all the vague islands e D
of this type it is, practically unin-
habited. For sixteen years a Ger-
man, having obtained concessions
from the Costa Rica Government,
which controls Cocos, existed there
in Robinson Crusoe primitiveness,
and sought high and low for clews
to, the hiding -place of the pirates'
ill-gotten gains, and at intervals
exploring parties ,have hunted over
its extent of 16 square miles.
In 1896 Admiral Palliser, of ,
FMCS. Imperieuse, landed a party
y
of .sailors, and marines on the is-
land, but without result. Seven
years afterwards the Admiralmade
a second essay, and in 190b was a
member of the expedition. under
Earl Fitzwilliam which left England
in the Veronique ostensibly to- look
for potential coalfields, but was t
next heard of on Cocos.
In a landslide some native labor-
ers lost their lives, and members of
the :expedition the Earl among
there --were injured. At that time
sensational reports obtained 'Cur-
.
rency that the pastyhad met rivals
in quest of the treasure and a battle
hateadd. ensued, but these were. repudi-
A Plymouth correspondent wires'
that the ladies who are said to have,A
discovered the hiding -place of the he
treasure are Mrs. Barry Till • and Imp
Miss Davies, who are already on pass:
their way to Panama to join the rton
Melmoie when. she arrives there, Iles
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