Do pirates bury their treasures?
There is a common idea about pirates that they bury their treasures and spoils, but is that true?
What is buried treasure?
The buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding the pirates and outlaws in the Old West. According to popular perception, criminals and others used to bury their stolen wealth in remote places, where they intended to return later, often using a treasure map.
Do pirates bury their treasures?
One of the early examples of English hacking "Francis Drake" After a raid on a Spanish train, he and his men buried several tons of gold and silver along the coast of Panama until they are not detected and returned. Drake left the guards on site, but he was able to bring booty through his ships. According to many sources, this was not common to other pirates, as these are just individual models.
Treasure buried between truth and fantasy
The famous pirate Captain William Kidd was unlucky, having been sought after taking over the shipments of the Indian Ocean. In 1699 Kid was brought to a small island near New York where he buried huge amounts of gold and silver.
But he was unlucky, unlike other pirates. He was arrested in Boston, where authorities tracked and confiscated the treasure, and Kid was transferred to London where he was hanged.
The legend of buried treasure has entered literature, especially the famous story of William Kidd in Treasure Island, the treasure island of Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883.
If pirates do not bury their treasures, what would they do with them?
According to historian David Cordingley, "the old time pirates were not so careful or the economy to bury their treasures, but they were wasting them on women, drinking alcohol and gambling as soon as they returned to the port.
Although the real treasures of the pirates were rare, there are still legends about those lost treasures on the deserted islands, including the "Treasure of Lima," a huge amount of gold and silver, stolen by Captain William Thompson and buried on the island of Cocos in Costa Rica 1820, it is said that the treasure price of 200 million.


