blobrana wrote:
Hum,
Sometimes piracy does pay…
Legend has it that Spanish navigator Juan Esteban Ubillay Echeverria stashed a fortune on the island in 1715. British sailor Cornelius Webb is said to have found the treasure and taken it to another area of the island to be reburied.
(Of course they haven`t actually found it yet)
And most experts would point out they are likely looking on the wrong island owned by the wrong country. Robinson Crusoe's home was most likely Cocos Island which is owned by Costa Rica, not one of the Chilean Juan Fernandez islands renamed to draw tourists. No less then 3 buried treasures are said to be buried there, including the 3rd largest gold statue in the world (the madonna from the Lima cathedral in case you were wondering).
-Tig
