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The Hispaniola Plate &^^ 1^" W^' Mh' >». "t- ''i?3^%J'M .^AV-. ^S*9: LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE .:> fc«- > y y ^ y y "y £jr Libris ISAAC FOOT ^^. r-W lUliiftr ,^vi»s^ m '^it^^ fe-^^ft «^»./fe.^ >4^«^ig&fe IBfe Vli- —-- iS»^^ "w * • 'i^ilil A^anfJ W^^m«3^%| ^ % THE IIlSPAi^IOLA PLATE liY THE SAME AUTHOR. The Desert Ship. The Adventuiies of Viscount Aneuly. A Gentleman Advexttuer. His Own Enbmy. The Silent Shore. ETC. etc. The Hispaniola Plate (1683-1893) BY JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON We passed the tropics, as near as we could guess, just luhere the Juinous Sir William Fhips fislied vp the silver from the Spanish Plate ivreck."— Defoe ("Colonel Jack"). CASSELL AND COMPANY, Limited LONDON, PARIS &- MELBOURNE 189s ALL RIGHTS KESERVED ©71 H^T "(> OFFICEKS OF THE EOYAL NAVY AVITU AVIIOM I HAVE, FOR SOMf: YEAKS, SPENT MANY PEEASAXT AVEEKS ANNUALLY BVRING THE XAVAL MAN(EUYRES, V.IIILE ACTING AS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OP THE STAXDAUD, I VENTURE TO INSCRIBE, YTITU GREAT CORDIALITY, THIS STORY PARTLY TRUE AND PARTLY FICTITIOUS —OF Captain, Sir William Phips, R.N., AND OF Lieutenants Nicholas and Reginald Ci!Afkr, H.X. PREFACE. Most of the maps of the West Indies published during the first half of the present century and anterior to that date mark distinctly the spot where the following story prmcipally takes place. Thirty miles due nortli of Cape Fran^ais, on the north coast of San Domingo, is a reef entitled " Bajo de la Plata, or Phips's Plate," while more modern maps simply describe it as " Silver Bank." This is, of course, the spot where Sir William Phips^a now forgotten figure in history—obtained the plate mentioned by Defoe; and, so far as I am aware, there is but one detailed account in existence of how he found and secured that plate. This account is contained m a duodecimo volume entitled " Fietas in Fatriam : the Life of Sir WilHam Phips," pubhshed in London iii 1697 anonymousl}-, but guaranteed as accurate by several people who knew him. A production entitled "The Library of American Biography," edited by one Jared Sparks, also pro- fesses to give an accurate biography of Phips, but it is simply a garbled and mangled copy of the London publication. I should also mention that the "Bio- graphia Britannica" refers to the expedition in the article on " Christopher Monk, second Duke of Albe- marle." So does a work of the last century entitled "The Lives of the Admirals," by Lawrence Echard, Till THE HISPANIOLA PLATE. and so ulso do some encyclopedias ; but all of them undoubtedly derive their information from " Pietas in Patriam." This Avork I have myself carefully followed, because in it alone are to be found the descriptions of the " Frj^gate Algier Rose," her eighteen guns and ninety- five men, of the various mutinies, of Alderly's arrival on the scene, of the second voyage with the tender, and so forth. Indeed, beyond the requirements of fii^tion the account is absolutely an account of what happened until the chase after Alderly by Nicholas C'rafer, Avhen fiction itself becomes predominant. Alderly, I should add, was as real a character as rhips himself. So was the carpenter who discovered the second mutiny. The rest, with the exception of the Duke of Albemarle, are imaginary. I may add, in conclusion, that " The Hispaniola Plato " appeared originally in The St. James's Budget CONTENTS -•<>- CHAPTER I. x-ACE Nicholas Ceafee's Strange Will 1 CHAPTER ir. An Old Bit of History 7 CHAPTER HI. The Vanished Me. Wargrave 11 CHAPTER IV. Cazalet's Bank ....... .20 CHAPTER \. Pitips Captain William . .31 CHAPTER VI. The Beginning of a Mltiny 3S CHAPTER VII. Tm; Ending of It . 4G CHAPTER VIII. The Second jIuiiny oi CHAPTER IX. And the PRErAKATioNS Ag.vinst It. .62 X THE HISPANIOLA PLATE. CHAPTER X. PAGE And How It was Ended . 69 CHAPTER XT. They Hate to Desist 76 CHAPTER XII. The Bark "Furie" 8t CHAPTER XIII. The Old Max's Story 92 CHAPTER XIV. The Wreck is Found 100 CHAPTER XV. What the First Search Revealed 109 CHAPTER XVI. Ax HoxEST Max Arrives ,119 CHAPTER XVII. An Alarm irom the "Furie" 127 CHAPTER XVIII. Treachery axd Flight 134 CHAPTER XIX. The "Honest Man" ix His True Colours .... 143 CHAPTER XX. A Fight 152 CHAPTER XXI. The Villain's Den 1G2 CONTENT-:. XI CHAPTER XXII PAGE Mad ! .172 CHAPTER XXIII. TuK TiiEAsmiE House 1S2 CHAPTER XXIV. 1S9 Wjiat was in the Tueasuue House ... CHAPTER XXV. The Middle Key 200 CHAPTER XXVI. Nicholas Leaves the Island 210 CHAPTER XXVII. The Narrath-e Ends . 218 CHAPTER XXVIIT. Off to the Virgin Isles 227 CHAPTER XXIX. DiiA-wiNG Xear ... 236 CHAPTER XXX. Out of the Depths of a Ear Distant Past . 244 CHAPTER XXXI. Some Light ttpox the Past 253 CHAPTER XXXII. The Solitude is Interrupted 203 CHAPTER XXXIII. The Island's Owner 272 CHAPTER XXXIV. Joseph Alderly 281 Xll THE HISPANIOLA PLATE. CnAPTER XXXV. TAGi: DANOiiu Impexdixo 290 CHAPTEU XXXVI. liliWAKE : 300 CHAPTER XXX VI r. "A.NJj Death tjie End of All" SOD CHAPTER XXXVIIT. The Oavxfh of the Tkeasiue ....... 318 CHAPTER. XXXIX. The Ai'j'uoACHixG Se.uicii 328 CHAPTER XL. The Seauch 337 CHAPTER XLL The End 34K — The Hispaniola Plate. CHAPTER I. NICHOLAS CRAFER'S STRANGE WILL. " Gray's Inn Square, Oct. 20tli, 1892. " My DEAR Sir,—In answer to your request, I beg to inform yon that the terms by wliicli you inherit ' Phips House,' at Strand-on-the-Green, from your late uncle, are as follows—the statement beino- taken from the last will and testament of your ancestor Nicholas Crater, made in the year 1095 : And I do hereby will and bequeathe that ye house called Pliips by me, after iny late captain aud commander, Sir William Pliips, when I purchased yt from Mr. Ciitlierow of Branford, do forever remaine in the possession of some descendant of mine, male or female, the former for clioyce and preference, yet not also debarring, in fault of any bearing the name of Crafer existinge, those descending from the female side to succeed. That is to saye, it is to so remaine forever unless througli it whoever doth succeede shall thereinto find the means wliereby to obtain unto themselves a fortune of and equivaliut unto the summe of Fif tie thousand guineas, the which I do hereby testify the meanes are forthcoming. After whych the house may be disposed of as best beseemeth those who have so found ye fortune. This, therefore, I say, " Seeke and ye sliall find, kuocke aud yt shall be opened unto you." B 2 THE HISPANIOLA PLATE. " This will, ill spite of its quaintness, has ever, and Avill probably alvva3^s, hold good, although not law, until one thing occurs of two : either that the house falls down of old age (which it seemed very likely to do when I inspected it after your late uncle's decease) or that some descendant of Com- mander Nicholas Crafer shall find the means of making the fortune of 50,000 guineas in or through it—a most unlikely thing to happen. For, as you know, many generations of Crafers have searched through the house from basement to garret, imagining that the original testator meant to hint that some- where about it, was hidden away such a sum of money as he mentions ; and always without result. Nor has the ingenuity of one generation after another ever been able to liit upon any hidden meaning which mis'ht be contained in the words of the will, or to find anything excepting the scrap of paper once discovered, of which you know; while certainly the land on which it stands— something under three acres—can hardly ever become of such value, or one-twentieth part of it. " But as you know as nmch about your ancestor as I can possibly tell you, I need not write further, and I have only to state that, during your absence abroad , everything has been done to facilitate handing over the house to you on your return, and I now propose to prove 3'our uncle's will, and, after the usual formalities, to put you in possession of Phips House and other property left by him. —Yours faithfully, " A. Bentham." ; NICHOLAS chafer's stran(je will. 3 This was the letter which Reginald Crafer read at his breakfast, one tine autumn morning, as he sat in that good old hostelry, " The George," at Portsmouth —a letter which he had found at the Naval Club after his early morning walk on the Battery—a walk taken with the view of aiding an already exceedingly good appetite, and of having a look at the waves dancing out at the Nab and sparkling m the bright October sunshine, A better specimen of the young lieutenant of to-day than Reginald Crafer (with " N " after his name to show that he had taken up navigation as his branch) you might not see in any of her Majesty's ships. Tall, but not too tall for a sailor ; close- shaven, as becometh the young naval officer of to-day, yet with excellent features that required nothing in the shape of Avhiskers or moustache to set them off with clear grey eyes and a wholesome sunburnt skin —what more could a young man desire in the shape of personal gifts ? Nay, Avhat more pleasing a sight to gaze upon than this smart, good-looking young officer could the heart of a maiden desire ? Now Reginald Crafer—whom at this present moment you see eating buttered toast and a fried sole, as he reads his lawyer's letter—had just come home from the China Station in the lanthe (twin- screw cruiser, first-class, armoured, 8,400 tons) ; and she having been paid oft", the young man was on leave " for the time being.
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