Chapter 473: Pirate's Treasure
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Legend has it that the winning pirates drew a treasure map before leaving.
At that time, the sea off Java was an unknown world for many people, even for pirates who were most familiar with the sea conditions in this area.
At that time, those pirates, after the successful attack on the Spanish golden fleet, in order to avoid the retaliation of the Spanish Navy, also panicked and went all the way south.
After passing through the eye of a sea storm, the fleet sailed to the island of Lohend, which was an unknown world for those pirates.
As soon as the fleet arrived, they began to kill each other, and in the end only a group of pirates from the Netherlands managed to survive to the end.
But it was only then that they realized that they had too few men left to drive away from these treasure ships.
And they don't want to go back and ask someone to help them, because that means there will be a lot of risk and a lot of people to share their benefits.
So they had no choice but to leave here on one of the best remaining ships, filled with all kinds of jewels.
After this group of pirates returned to Europe, they immediately became rich because of the wealth they plundered, and they all lived a life of drinking and dying.
As for returning to the South Pacific to hunt for treasure, they didn't think about it, but the treasure map drawn back then was too sketchy, and the generation of the South Pacific was unpredictable and stormy.
Their group tried several times to get back to the original island, but they were unsuccessful. So that golden island can only become a legend, and none of the pirates of the year can return to this island in the end.
About a hundred years later, a Dutchman, William. Fipos was lucky enough to get the treasure map left behind by the pirates.
At that time, I was struggling to make ends meet. On the verge of bankruptcy, he decided to gamble, took out the last of his family assets, bought a schooner, and set off from the Netherlands all the way south to the South Pacific waters.
After passing through the eye of the storm, he was lucky enough to come to Lohend Island, where the pirates had hidden their treasures.
After landing on the island, this guy began a crazy treasure hunt, but unfortunately, he searched for a week. He didn't even find a fart.
Just when he was so disappointed that he was about to hang himself on the southeast branch, he was suddenly tripped over by a big guy that came out of the beach.
Annoyed and angry, he originally planned to get up and give the stone a hard kick, but as soon as the foot flew out, he was forced to stop in mid-air. Because he found the 'stone'. It's a huge piece of red coral.
At that time, he felt hopeful, and took out a shovel and began to dig frantically near the red coral, which was good, and really made him discover the treasure.
Under the roots of red coral, he found a chest full of various gold jewels, followed by a second one...... The third ......
This guy has been digging on the island for three months. When he finally left the island, his ship was filled with all sorts of gold jewels, said to be thirty tons.
And when he returned to the Netherlands, his success immediately caused a sensation in the entire European society.
Countless treasure hunters, with parchment bags full of gold coins, found this guy's door. The purpose was to be able to acquire an attachment to a treasure map from him.
Although his ship was full of thirty tons of treasures, according to the number of gold jewels carried by the gold fleet in the past, these gold jewels were not at all one-tenth of the gold jewels carried by the gold fleet.
Therefore, many people firmly believe that on this island of Lohend, there are countless treasures hidden by the golden fleet that have not been discovered.
Later, the Dutch, the British, the French, and the Spaniards flocked to the island with all kinds of real and fake treasure maps, and since then, the island of Lohaud has become famous as the golden island of European adventurers.
It's just that the guys who came here to hunt for treasure later were not very lucky, some died on the way because of the storm at sea, and some people went insane and finally committed suicide after finding nothing on the island, or clashed with other people, and finally died on this small island.
Others found nothing, and in the end they could only leave the island silently with endless remorse.
Since then, this small island, in the mouths of European seafarers, has another name, that is, the cursed island!
But this experience, in the history of European countries, has not been recorded in inscriptions, only exists in some wild histories, after all, the experience of those pirates back then was not a glorious experience, and there was nothing worth publicizing.
Therefore, most of this experience is passed down by word of mouth, or recorded in the history of the wilderness.
Of course, there are many versions of the legend of this golden island, and some people say that those pirates went their separate ways after successfully intercepting the Spanish golden fleet.
They were divided into a few boats by each group, and then everyone broke through in their own different directions.
In fact, the group of pirates who went south to Lohode Island were not Dutch, but a group of British, including the famous William. Captain Dampier.
There were five treasure ships in the golden fleet they had assigned to them, but while escaping from the Spanish navy, two of them sank in the Pacific Ocean due to a storm.
The remaining three ships were taken to Lohod Island by Dampier and his team, and later they did kill each other on the island, and in the end, only Dampier and his group won, taking away some of the treasure, and they buried the rest on the island.
Later, the reason why Dampier agreed to the Royal Navy to bring a ship to the South Pacific for scientific research was not entirely for scientific exploration, but more for the purpose of finding the small island where they hid their treasure.
But unfortunately, in the absence of detailed charts, it was difficult to find a small island in the vast sea, and in the end they did not find this small island, but they accidentally found Australia......
Anyway, there were many versions of the legend back then, and after returning to the hotel in the evening, after checking it on the Internet, Jin Muchen didn't expect to find so many stories about pirates and pirate treasures.
Now he is even more determined not to leave, he has to spend this treasure hunt adventure festival in this Dampier before talking.
At this time, he was full of different interests in the legendary Golden Island, and even wanted to go to the island immediately to see if there were any treasures buried in the pirates back then.
If there is really a treasure, those stupid guys will definitely not be able to find it, but Jin Muchen, who has a pair of golden eyes, is full of confidence in himself.
Others may not be able to find it, but if he is replaced, he will definitely find it.
Thinking of the pirate's treasure, Jin Muchen didn't sleep well this night, and all he thought about was going to the island the next day to find the pirate's treasure.
Early the next morning, Jin Muchen got up, called Belinda to have a simple breakfast at the hotel, and then rushed to the dock.
There happened to be a medium-sized cruise ship soliciting passengers, and the two did not hesitate to buy a set of luxury adventure seven-day tour packages and board the cruise.
This cruise ship is not the kind of large-scale 10,000-ton luxury cruise ship, but a medium-sized offshore cruise ship, with a passenger capacity of about a few hundred people, which is just right for such an offshore adventure tour.
The cruise is slow, departing from Dampier in the morning and heading north, where you can enjoy brunch while enjoying the beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean.
If you like fishing, you can also show your skills at the stern, but this time Jin Muchen has no interest in sea fishing, and finally at one o'clock in the afternoon, the cruise ship arrived at the famous Golden Island.
But when he looked at the verdant island in the distance, Jin Muchen felt that his heart was half cold.
This island is also too small, of course, this is also relative to those islands and reefs, how to say that this island must have an area of more than ten square kilometers, but because of the sparse population, there is not even a dock for large cruise ships to dock.
Everyone had to board the ferry boat that came from the pier and was transferred to the shore.
The island is owned by Australia, and there is a small fishing village with a total population of 3,500 people, and the people here usually live mainly by fishing.
The treasure hunt in Dampier has brought countless opportunities to the townspeople, who are no longer fishing at sea, but have become the owners of fishing families.
As soon as Jin Muchen and Belinda came ashore, they saw countless aborigines standing near the pier and greeting the tourists who came ashore.
The two of them were not in a hurry to stay at the people's homes, but fortunately, the Dampier city government was quite smart, and they opened a hotel in the mayor before the adventure festival, but the environment was very bad, a bit like the cheapest hostel.
Jin Muchen and Belinda only went in to take a look, and then quickly came out of it, and finally had to find a more reliable fisherman at the pier and stay at his house.
This fisherman's name is Fils, he is in his fifties, and his perennial experience of going out to sea to fish makes him look extraordinarily old, if he doesn't blow up his age, Jin Muchen thinks that this old guy is seventy years old.
But fortunately, the environment of his house is not bad, there is hot water supply, the room is relatively clean, and the kitchen can be used casually, only 50 Australian dollars for a night, if you add 50 Australian dollars, they will provide three meals a day, don't say anything to pay for it...... (To be continued......)