Map Of Veracruz

New Book Links Father Junipero Serra to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

(PRWEB) July 19, 2011

The new book, Treasure Island: The Untold Story, not only documents that there was a real Treasure Island but that Father Junipero Serra, an icon in California history, had a credible role in the making of Treasure Island.

Treasure Island is a fictional account of an adventure to a Caribbean island to recover a treasure buried in 1750. In real life, there was such a treasure buried in 1750 on a deserted Caribbean Island and that story begins the year before in 1749 when the galleon, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, traveled to Veracruz, Mexico, to pick up a large consignment of silver pieces of eight. On board were Father Serra and nineteen other Franciscan priests.

When the Guadalupe arrived within sight of Veracruz, she was blown off by a storm. The hapless ship then encountered a violent hurricane. The crew despaired but Father Serra led his fellow priests in a prayer to St. Barbara begging for deliverance while the galleon wanted to slip beneath the waves. It was December 4, the feast day of St. Barbara when their prayers were answered: the wind died and the seas calmed.

The Guadalupe and six other ships later departed Havana, Cuba, on August 18, 1750, for Spain. They encountered another hurricane which propelled the Guadalupe and her cargo of treasure to Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina. It was here that Blackbeard, the pirate, was killed in 1718.

In Hampton, Virginia, a merchant captain named Owen Lloyd and his peg-legged brother, John, departed for what seemed to be a routine trip to St. Kitts where Owen was going to reunite with his wife. She had left months before because of the hardships that she and Owen had suffered at the hands of the Spaniards in the war that had just ended between Spain and England. Their sloop sprang a leak and diverted to Ocracoke where the Lloyd brothers were hired to tow the disabled Guadalupe into the inlet. After that was accomplished, the Lloyd brothers engineered a scheme to steal the treasure that had been offloaded onto some English sloops. On October 20, 1750, while the Spanish guards were having lunch, the two sloops weighed anchor and made for the inlet. John Lloyd’s sloop ran aground and he was captured. Owen made a clean getaway and buried his treasure at Norman Island, a deserted key in the British Virgin Islands. The treasure was later recovered but the aftermath left the countries of England, Spain, Denmark, and The Netherlands in a diplomatic turmoil as their Caribbean governors had each dipped their hands into the pot of gold.

Migrants use zip line to cross Guatemala-Mexico border | Hot News ...

(CNN) — It may not be legal, but it’s definitely popular. For just 10 Guatemalan quetzals, or 15 Mexican pesos (the equivalent of just over a U.S. dollar), you can pay to ride a zip line across a river and into a new country.

A news team from Mexico’s Televisa network, a CNN affiliate, found four zip lines crossing over the Suchiate River, which serves as part of Mexico’s southeastern border with Guatemala. They observed people crossing into Mexico in broad daylight, apparently not worried about immigration authorities posted not far from there.

Guatemalans on both sides of the border are in charge of the zip line and collecting money from people willing to cross.

A Guatemalan immigrant getting ready to cross the border using the zip line admitted he was doing so illegally. He said he had “obtained my passport but didn’t know I also need a visa to cross” into Mexico.

Mexico shares a largely unpopulated, almost 600-mile border with Guatemala marked by jungle and rugged mountains. The zip lines connect the Guatemalan community of El Carmen to the Mexican town of Talisman.

Once in Mexico, migrants travel on freight trains or by bus to the U.S. border, although many never get there. Last week, Mexican authorities stopped a bus in the central Mexican state of Queretaro with 104 undocumented migrants on board. Last August, 72 migrants were killed by a Mexican drug cartel in a ranch in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, only 100 miles south of the U.S. border.

Those who do get to the U.S. border have another river to cross, the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo, as it’s known in Mexico) or a 21-foot wall.

Many are now going underground.

On a recent trip to Arizona, U.S. border patrol agents gave a CNN crew access to a tunnel being illegally used for this purpose. The mile-long tunnel was built to prevent flooding in the border city of Nogales, Arizona, but it has been increasingly used in recent years to smuggle immigrants and drugs.

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ariel Medeles says crossing this way can be dangerous. “There was a group down here and then they got caught in the flash flood and hours later they were looking for a body north of the openings,” says Medeles.

Some immigrants die trekking across the treacherous Arizona desert, but many thousands more make it to the land of their dreams, after a trip of hundreds — even thousands — of miles.

The landing at Veracruz: 1914, the first complete chronicle of a strange encounter in April, 1914, when the United States Navy captured and occupied the city of Veracruz, Mexico

Mexico

The Official railway guide, North American freight service edition

The World map directory

A Pueblo divided, business, property, and community in Papantla, Mexico