cargo would float off the wrecked ships and be picked up and sold or used for other purposes. Brass knobs, ship bells, tables and other commodities were known to have been salvaged One lady showed me two large well-crafted tables that were passed down in the family from the wrecked ships. A brisk trade in produce was carried on by vessels from the area in those early years. Records indicate such seafaring skippers as Dan Gillis , Ed Perry , Jim McGrath , Ernie Perry, Edmond Gillis , Terrance & Bill Farrell, Captain Dan S . Miller, Captain J McCarthy , Captain A Miller , and Captain Gavin . They brought back lumber, and other produce that was needed and not available here on the Island. Those who could afford it brought back spirits for the winter. Big scows would be waiting when the ships were coming and going to transport the supplies to and from the shore. The shipwrecked sailors, who found refuge in nearby homes, would find an escape route for them aboard the supply ships or other vessels to get back to their homes. Searching out stories of the past, as a newspaper correspon¬ dent, took me on a journey forty-one years ago that excited my imagination. And one day I decided to write it into a book. One could almost feel the ghostly figures of the past, as Percy Morrissey and his son Everett, two local historians at , told of many hair-raising tales of the area, and the buried treasure. Father had showed us a picture at one time, of people down in a deep pit actually digging for the treasure. The Hawbush, supposed to be the only one planted on Prince Edward Island , went over the bank as the storm tossed waves gradually under- 129