janubio

Updated: June 4, 2025

I also heard him tell the same young gentleman a queer yarn about a buried treasure which is supposed to be concealed near a little cove on the southern extremity of the island, called `Janubio. The story goes that, in the beginning of the century I think the navigator said it was in the year 1804, but I am not quite certain the crew of a South American Spanish treasure ship, bound to Cadiz from Lima with produce and which had besides over two millions of dollars in chests aboard, mutinied, and murdered their captain and officers; the rascals then making off in the long boat with this treasure towards an island, which, from the description given, must have been either Lanzarote or one of the Salvages.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy