An important piece of a 300 -year -old mystery can be discovered around a pirate treasure in the Indian Ocean.
Archaeologists believe that they have identified the debris Nosa Senhora Do Cbo ,Our woman of cape), A Portuguese warship that was captured in the island of Punaron in 1721.
The ship was given the route to Lisbon, which was fully loaded with the treasures of Goa and Portuguese colonies on the west coast of India. On the way, the warship, burnt more than 700 tonnes, was badly damaged in a storm. To avoid capsizing, the crew shook some cannons of the ship, making the ship an easy victim for the French pirate Olivier Levasus, known as La Buzzard.
Debris found near Nasi Boraha
The huge amounts of gold, silver, pearls, diamonds and other precious items are discovered as fine clothes and spices. According to Smithsonian magazineThe Trove will be estimated today $ 138 million (€ 119 million).
The high value of thesis items was the representative of important passengers of the ship: Portuguese Viceroy Louis Carlos Insio Javier’s Deeds, and Goa’s archbishop, Sebstiao de Andred Pesnha, who were taken hostage. Viceroy was later released for ransom, while about 200 slaves of the Mozambique and crew were possibly released on the island of Reunon.
Pirates who closed away from the southeastern coast of Africa with their brilliant loot towards Madagascar. It is believed that he is hidden on the small island of Boraha, a grandson named Ele Santte-Mary at that time.
What is the island ideal hideout for pirates. About 60 km long and five wide, and with a natural port, it was relatively relatively relative to the popular trade route between Europe and Asia, but on a safe removal from colonial control. And where is Nasi Boraha absolutely Brandon Clifford and Mark Agostini of the Historic Shipavrak Preservation Center at Massachusetts believe that they found the debris of Nosa Cenora do Cabo.Hidden under silt and sand.
Labor disposal work
Clifford and Angostini DescredSir findings in June issue debris magazine. It took 16 years for his team to identify the debris. He analyzed the construction and historical records of the ship to compare parts of the debris and artifacts, which were exposed. Clifford’s social media channels offer the impression of this laborious work, search as an example below, the slave of the team reflects the discovery of the ship Whydah galllyWhich was captured by pirates in 1717.
In all, archaeologists picked up about 3.300 artifacts from Ceflore, including gold coins and values porcelain, as well as sacred objects made of ivory and wood, search as a statue of virgin mary and a cross.
For the team, Ile is between 7 and 10 debris near Santte-Mary’s island, which suggests that the treasure will continue to hunt.
A secret message before execution
However, the loot of La Boos remains the biggest mystery. It is known that the pirates left for Seychelles from Ele-Mary, where he hid for about eight years. After gymnastics, after a Amnesty offering because he did not want to return the treasure, he was finally found, handed over to the French, and took the chains to the Borbon Island, now called Reunion.
Shortly before his execution, La Beus said that he told his guard: “Whatever I have hidden here, I can buy this entire island.” Legend has it that the pirates threw a note with a cryptogram in the crowd, saying: “My treasure for who understands it!”
As often occurs with pirate stories, many legends surround real events. The only thing that is certain is that the adventures have made a futile discovery for a few 300 years for futile treasures.
What the cryptogram was actually written by La Bus, so remain unclear. Although it is now more or less, no one is yet able to correctly explain the esoteric content. Does text desk have a type of star compass? Does it describe the major landmark? The estimate is going on.
La Bus’s treasures still lost on this day, somewhere between Seychelles, Reunion Island, Mauritius, Myat, Rodrigues and Santte-Mary, there is a possibility of living on the mystery of the pirates.
This article was original in German.
