![]() There are certain oddities in the story which invite skepticism, such as the loss of the original necklace, or the 200 year gap between Levasseur’s death and Cruise-Wilkins picking up the thread of the tale. If you are thinking this all seems too good to be true, then there are some who would agree with you. A Historical Fantasy or A Puzzle to be Solved? He died on May 3, 1977, before cracking the final code. Further, the treasure chamber must be reached at a certain point at low tide, with the water being dammed to prevent flooding.Ĭruise-Wilkins searched for and dug in the island of Mahe until his death, but never found anything in a cave except antique rifles, a few scattered coins, and the desiccated bodies of long dead pirates. Various tasks, reflecting Hercules’s Labors, were to be completed in a precise order to access the treasure chamber. Cruise-Wilkins believed that the code is based on Masonic symbols, and claimed to have uncovered a link between the Zodiac, Solomon’s Clavicles, and Hercules’s Twelve Labours, an ungodly mish-mash of symbology unlikely to have come from a professional pirate. But there, Levasseur learned of an opportunity to turn his fortunes around: a wealthy French trader was anchored in the adjacent Paranagua Bay.Įarly work by Cruise-Wilkins produced some wild suggestions. The skirmishes had taken their toll and his crew were reduced in number with a further ten being murdered at Ubatuba. He raced from safe harbor to safe harbor, at Cananeia, at Ilha Grande and at Ubatuba, always driven on by the relentless Portuguese. However, Levasseur’s actions had brought the attention of the Portuguese authorities and his ship, the La Louise was forced to flee from a Portuguese boat. Levasseur left the crew of the ship on their destroyed vessel to die, and brought the 240 slaves to shore on an island off the coast of Macae near Rio de Janeiro. One of his more famous prizes was a slave ship from Angola, taken off Brazil’s southern coast with its live cargo. ![]()
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