Chapter 473 Pirate's Treasure
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According to legend, the winning pirates that year drew a treasure map before leaving.
And for many people, even the pirates who were most familiar with the sea conditions in this area, was an unknown world.
After successfully attacking the Spanish Golden Fleet, those pirates were panicked and headed south in order to avoid the revenge of the Spanish Navy.
After passing through the eye of a sea storm, the fleet drove to the island of Lohode at that time. This place was an unknown world for those pirates.
As soon as the fleet arrived on the shore, they began to kill each other. In the end, only a group of pirates who came to the Netherlands successfully survived to the end.
But at this time, they realized that they had too few people left and could not drive away these treasure ships.
And they don’t want to go back and ask for help, because that means that it will add countless risks and many people will share their benefits.
So they had no choice but to fill the best boat with all kinds of jewelry and leave here.
After returning to Europe, these pirates immediately became rich people because of the plundered wealth, and they all lived a life of life of debauchery and demise.
As for returning to the South Pacific to hunt for treasures again, they had thought about it, but the treasure map drawn back then was too simple. In addition, the South Pacific generation was unpredictable and there were many storms.
Their group of people tried to retrieve the original island several times, but failed, so the Golden Island could only become a legend. In the end, no one of the pirates of that year was able to return to the island again.
About a hundred years later, a Dutchman, William Phipos, was lucky to get the treasure map left by the pirates.
At that time, he was struggling to make a living and on the verge of bankruptcy, he decided to gamble and take out his last family income. He bought a schooner and set off from the Netherlands and headed south to the South Pacific.
After traveling through several storm eyes, he was lucky to come to Lohode Island where the pirates were hiding treasures back then.
After landing on the island, this guy began a crazy treasure hunt. Unfortunately, after searching for a week, he couldn't find a single fart.
Just as he was extremely disappointed, he was about to hang himself in the southeast branch. When he was in this life, he was suddenly tripped by a big guy who had been paid off from the beach.
He was so angry that he originally planned to get up and kick the stone hard, but as soon as the foot flew out, he stopped it in the air. Because he discovered that the "stone" was actually a huge red coral.
He felt that he saw hope at that time, so he took out a shovel and started digging wildly near the red coral. This digging was so good that he really discovered the treasure.
Under the roots of the red coral, he found a box filled with various gold jewelry, and then the second...the third...
This guy dug on the island for three months, and when he finally left the island, his boat was filled with all kinds of gold and jewelry that were said to be thirty tons.
And after he returned to the Netherlands, his successful experience immediately caused a sensation in the entire European society.
Countless treasure hunters found the guy's door with her sheepskin pockets filled with gold coins, hoping to acquire an attachment to the treasure map from him.
Because although his ship was filled with thirty tons of treasures, based on the number of gold jewelry transported by the gold fleet in the past, these gold jewelry were not enough to be one-tenth of the gold jewelry transported by the gold fleet.
Therefore, many people firmly believe that on this Lohaud Island, there are still countless treasures of the undiscovered golden fleet.
Later, the Dutch, British, French, and Spanish flocked to them with all kinds of real and fake treasure maps. From then on, the Island of Lohode became famous and became the famous Golden Island among European adventurers.
However, the guys who came here to hunt for treasure later were not very lucky. Some died halfway through the sea storm, and some people became mentally ill and committed suicide, or had conflicts with others, and finally died of this small island.
Some people got nothing and finally had to leave the island silently with endless regret.
From then on, this small island had another name in the mouths of European seamen, that is, the Cursed Island!
However, this experience has not been recorded in the history of European countries, but only exists in some unofficial history. After all, the experiences of those pirates back then were not glorious experiences, and nothing worth promoting.
Therefore, most of this experience was passed down by word of mouth or recorded in unofficial history.
Of course, there are many versions of the legend about this Golden Island. Some people say that those pirates parted ways after successfully intercepting Spain's golden fleet.
At that time, each group got several boats, and then everyone broke through in different directions.
In fact, the group of pirates heading south to Lohaud Island were not Dutch people, but British people, among which was the famous Captain William Dampier.
There were five treasure ships from the golden fleet they had obtained back then, but when they were fleeing to avoid the pursuit of the Spanish Navy, two of them sank in the Pacific Ocean due to the storm.
The remaining three ships were taken to Lohaud Island by Danpier and the others. Later, they did kill each other on the island. In the end, only Danpier and his group won and took away part of the treasure, while the remaining part was buried on the island by them.
Later, the reason why Danpier promised the Royal Navy to bring ships to the South Pacific scientific research was not entirely for scientific research, but more of the purpose was to find the island where they had treasured.
Unfortunately, without a detailed chart, it was so difficult to find a small island on the vast sea. In the end, they did not find the small island, but unexpectedly discovered Australia...
Anyway, there were many versions of the legends back then. After returning to the hotel at night, Jin Muchen did not expect that he would find so many stories about pirates and pirate treasures.
Now he was determined to leave and had to finish this treasure hunting festival in Danpier.
At this time, he was full of different interests in the legendary Golden Island, and even wanted to climb the island immediately to see if there was any treasure of the pirates buried there.
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 it were replaced, he would definitely find it.
When he thought of the pirate's treasure, Jin Muchen didn't sleep well that night, and all he thought about was going to the island the next day to look for the pirate's treasure.
The next morning, Jin Muchen got up and asked Belinda to have a simple breakfast in the hotel, and then rushed to the dock excitedly.
There was a medium-sized cruise ship wherever it happened to be acquiring passengers. The two of them bought a luxury adventure seven-day tour package without hesitation and got on the cruise ship.
This cruise ship is not a large 10,000-ton luxury cruise ship, but a medium offshore cruise ship with a passenger capacity of about a few hundred people. It is just right for such offshore adventure tours.
The cruise ship is very slow. In the morning, we set off from Dampier and headed north. We can enjoy brunch while enjoying the beautiful sea view of the Pacific Ocean.
Those who like fishing can also show their skills at the stern of the boat, but this time Jin Muchen lost interest in sea fishing, so he rushed to finally arrive at the famous Golden Island at around 1:00 pm.
But when he looked at the green island in the distance, Jin Muchen felt that his heart was cold.
This island is too small. Of course, this is also compared to those islands and reefs. After all, the island must have an area of more than ten square kilometers. However, because of its sparse population, there is not even a dock for large cruise ships to dock.
Everyone had to board the ferry that came from the dock and was then transferred to the shore.
The ownership of the island belongs to Australia. There is usually a small fishing village with a total population of three to five hundred people on this island. People here usually make a living by fishing.
This treasure hunting adventure launched by Danpier City has brought countless opportunities to the residents of the town here. Now the people here no longer go out to sea to fish, but have become the owners of fishing houses.
As soon as Jin Muchen and Belinda got ashore, they saw countless indigenous people standing near the dock and greeting tourists who were landing.
The two of them were not in a hurry to stay at their homes. Fortunately, the Dampier Municipal Government was quite smart. They opened a hotel in the mayor before the expedition festival, but the environment was very poor, and it was a bit similar to the cheapest youth hostel.
Jin Muchen and Belinda only went in and took a look, then quickly came out of it. In the end, they could only bite the bullet and find a more reliable fisherman at the dock and stay at his home.
The fisherman is named Firs, who is in his fifties. His years of fishing in the sea make him look particularly old. If he doesn't reveal his age, Jin Muchen would think that this old guy is seventy years old.
Fortunately, the environment in his house is pretty good, with hot water, the room is relatively clean, and the kitchen is easy to use. It only costs 50 Australian dollars for one night. If you add another 50 Australian dollars, they will provide three meals a day, so don't say anything and pay for it... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!