h the boats we made the land about daylight. I was in the
long-boat with three others. The rest with Atwell were in the
jolly-boat. On coming to the bar the boats stuck, and we threw
overboard a great deal of money, in all about five thousand dollars.
The jolly-boat foundered. We saw it fill and heard them cry out, and
saw them clinging to the masts. We went ashore on Barron Island, and
buried the money in the sand, but very lightly. Soon after, we met
with a gunner, whom we requested to conduct us where we could get some
refreshments. They were by him conducted to Johnson's (the only man
living on the island) where we stayed all night. I went to bed about
ten o'clock. Jack Brownrigg sat up with Johnson, and in the morning
told me that he had told Johnson all about the murders. Johnson went
in the morning with the steward for the clothes, which were left on the
top of the place where they buried the money, but I don't believe they
took away the money."

Here was genuine buried treasure, but the circumstances were such as to
make the once terrible Captain Charles Gibbs cut a wretched figure. To
the ignominious crime of killing the captain and the mate of a little
trading brig had descended this freebooter of renown who had numbered
his prizes by the score and boasted of slaying their crews wholesale.
As for the specie looted from the brig _Vineyard_, half the amount was
lost in the surf when the jolly-boat foundered, and the remainder
buried where doubtless that hospitable resident, Johnson, was able to
find most of it. Silver dollars were too heavy to be carried away in
bulk by stranded pirates, fleeing the law, and these rascals got no
good of their plunder.

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[Illustration: Gibbs and Wansley burying the treasure.]

The Portugese captain cutting away the bag of moidores.

(_From The Pirates' Own Book._)

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Glance at the sin-stained roster of famous pirates, Edward Low, Captain
England, Captain Thomas White, Benito De Soto, Captain Roberts, Captain
John Rackham, Captain Thomas Tew, and most of the bloody crew, and it
will be found that either they wasted their treasure in debaucheries,
or were hanged, shot, or drowned with empty pockets. Of them all,
Blackbeard[3] fills the eye most struttingly as the proper pirate to
have buried treasure. He was immensely thea