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S WIND 25 TO 30 KT WITH GUSTS TO 35 KT LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
COMBINED SEAS 9 FT DOMINANT PERIOD 8 SECONDS.
TONIGHT S WIND 30 KT WITH GUSTS TO 40 KT.
COMBINED SEAS 12 FT DOMINANT PERIOD 8 SECONDS.

A series of mysteries entwined...
Separation of fiction from fact...
Indian legends tell of two ships...
A “winged canoe” wrecked on the beach...
Mysterious gift of beeswax...
Native trade with the first settlers...
The other anchored off the Mountain...
Men came and buried a black box...
Killing a man, his corpse upon the chest...
Marked with an hieroglyphic-inscribed stone...

Explorers Lewis and Clark state...
In a group of Clatsop Indians...
A man of lighter color than fellow natives...
Freckles and long red hair indicate...
He “must be half white at least...”
This man or one similar was spotted later...
by A. Henry of the NW Co. of British fur trade...
Journal for December 8, 1813, he states...
The old Clatsop chief arrived [and]...
With him a man about thirty years of age...
Who had extraordinarily dark red hair...
Supposed offspring of the wrecked ship...

Ere the first settlers and 'til today...
Beeswax has long washed ashore...
Clatsops recovered large chunk...
Taking it north to Astoria for trade...
Consistent with beeswax from SE Asia...
C-14 tests show it was formed in 1681...
From 1565 to 1815 galleons sailed...
Between Acapulco & the Philippines...
A ship sailing this route...
Blown off course and wrecked...
With no match to a specific ship...
But possibly the San Francisco Xavier...
Sailed in 1705, recorded as lost...
But of the treasure ship and marking stone?

Legends of treasure until 1890...
Discovery of a two hundred pound rock...
Chiseled with the letter "W" with a 2 crosses...
Below letters "DE" along with eight dots...
And an arrow pointing up the mountainside...
A short distance away, a smaller rock found...
With 2 dots & arrow pointing to a larger stone...

More rocks discovered on the Mountain...
All bearing similar inscriptions...
Glyphic rocks with enigmatic beeswax...
Driving treasure seekers to dig holes..
Earning the name, the “mountain of a 1000 holes...”

Owner of a local tavern in the early 1900’s...
Allowed the search for the treasure on his land...
None ever met with success...
Clearing land in back of the tavern...
Process of blasting a tree stump...
Discovered two crude bronze handles...
Could they be handles from a chest?...
No sign of a trunk or of its contents...

Portland woman interested in the treasure...
On advice of a spiritual medium...
Told to climb the Mountain at sunset...
“...The point at which a line from the setting sun...
Intersected at rt. angles the line that passed due N & S...
Through the middle point on [the mountain's] crown...”

Did as she was told and climbing the mountain...
Calculate the precise spot...
Turned out to be the exact same place...
Of the Taverner's two brass handles years before...
Of course, aside from the handles...
No treasure of any kind was found...

They, along with other treasure seekers...
Believe the stones hold the clue...
2 men claim they have deciphered the riddle...
Mysterious rocks scattered around the Mountain...

While dismantling another stone mound...
Men discover a rectangular stone...
A groove carved on one side measures 36 inches...
The rocks were actually markers...
A survey to stake a claim made in 1579...
By Francis Drake in which he claimed for England...
All land north of 45 degrees north latitude...

Drake made landfall for several weeks...
Along the Pacific Northwest coast...
The exact location has remained a mystery...
That has perplexed scholars for centuries...
The Jodocus Hondius Broadside map of 1595 shows a bay...
Drake identified as Portus Novae Albionis.
The contours of this harbor match closely...
With the coastal outline of Nehalem bay...

Additional mysteries have been uncovered...
Claims of a series of tunnels and chambers...
Containing evidence of human habitation...
Of armor, muskets and even bodies...

What of the original Clatsop Indian accounts...
Of a chest buried with a body placed on top?...
Standard practice for pirates who believed...
Dead men’s ghosts would guard their buried loot...
How would the Clatsop know of such pirate lore...
With no prior knowledge of this gruesome practice?

Could treasure still be lying undiscovered...
On the mountain waiting to be located?...
And what of discoveries of underground tunnels...
It seems that with each mystery solved...
Another rises to take its place...