Stewart MacDonald , Even in my day Neil always kept about 10 cows, which he kept on this shore area (the point) where there was a strong spring to water the cows and the marshland. There were two small rivers (creeks), which united and flowed out at the southwest corner of the farm. The western creek flowed all the way from the Road and included a small lake and a mill dam. This was a good waterway to water cattle in the northern area of the farm. At the junction of these two rivers (creeks) the French had a wharf. The remaining sticks driven in the ground are visible at low tide at times when they are not covered by drifting sand. The storms have worn away about 100 feet of shore land in the past 100 years. There was a sailor visiting Newfoundland in the early sailing days and he stated that he was told that there was a map where the French, when exiled, had buried their treasure, no doubt expecting to retrieve it at a later date. The area of the burial was on a sand dune di¬ rectly to the north of a wharf and directly south of a spring. The people of the area were so sure of the site that they had a man who had a mineral rod come to ex¬ plore the area. He went from all points of the compass and it pointed to the same area, a deep mound of sand. So they started digging in the sand, still using the min¬ eral rod, when suddenly the sand gave away and covered the man ( James MacDonald ) up to his chin. Jimmy's life was saved by the quick thinking of the near neighbour, Donald Nicholson , who raced to his home and brought down a barrel. Knocking out both ends of the barrel, the men put it over Jimmy's head and finally got him out. Years later Jimmy told me that he felt almost crushed to death. This ended the digging, but as a young boy I al¬ ways hoped that the tides would do the work and I would get the gold. 26