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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...they had raised the following amount of treasure between June, 1800, and November, 1801: --58 bars of gold; weight, 646 Ibs. 23 ounces; 35 bars of silver; weight, 1,758 Ibs. 8 ounces; 41,697 Spanish silver pistoles; 212 Spanish silver half-pistoles; 179 Spanish gold pistoles; o 20 Spanish gold half-pistoles; 24 Spanish gold quarter-pistoles; 18 Spanish gold one-eighth pistoles; 28 Spanish gold one-sixteenth pistoles; 81 Double Louis d"or; 138 Single Louis d"or; 4 English guineas; 2 Half guineas. The Government of the Netherlands granted the salvors one-third of the bullion and coin which they declared to have found, and had delivered up to the authorities; and the remainder was conveyed first to the Hague, and then to Dordrecht, the mint of which city transformed it into Dutch money, of the total value of 669,240 guilders, or 5 5,700. At the end of the year 1801, the bullion-fishers left off fishing, partly because it appeared to them that the treasure store of the English frigate had been exhausted, and partly because a fresh change in the currents of the ever-moving tideways had covered the wreck with sand, many yards in depth. For more than a dozen years the Dutch thought no more of the " Lutine," only the sailors of the lonely islands of the Zuyder Zee pointing, now and then, with bated breath, and still watchful curiosity, to the presumed burial-place of the " gold wreck." In England, too, the fate of the " Lutine" was quickly forgotten, amidst the stirring events of the great war in which the nation was engaged. Lloyd"s underwriters were the last men to fret about a loss the accounts for which had been settled, and, perhaps, none but the sorrowing relatives of the officers and crew drowned in the " Lutine" ever thought of the...
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