These rumors must have had
some foundation in fact. And that the rumors have existed so long
and so continuously could have resulted, it appeared to me, only
from the circumstance of the buried treasure still remaining entombed.
Had Kidd concealed his plunder for a time, and afterwards reclaimed
it, the rumors would scarcely have reached us in their present
unvarying form. You will observe that the stories told are all about
money-seekers, not about money-finders. Had the pirate recovered his
money, there the affair would have dropped. It seemed to me that
some accident --say the loss of a memorandum indicating its locality
--had deprived him of the means of recovering it, and that this
accident had become known to is followers, who otherwise might never
have heard that treasure had been concealed at all, and who, busying
themselves in vain, because unguided attempts, to regain it, had given
first birth, and then universal currency, to the reports which are now
so common. Have you ever heard of any important treasure being
unearthed along the coast?"
"Never.
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