A number of particularly rehunter. pirate a of character nobfe spectable and distinguished subscribers (among them King William and Lord Bellomont at that time not yet governor), having at heart the suppression of piracy, equipped a stanch vessel for Kidd, who was known as a bold and experienced mariner, and sent him forth to search for these evil men wheresoever they might ply their horrid As the story runs, he renvocation, and scourge them from the seas. chivalric cause, but later dered valuable services for a. time in this most desperate corfell into degenerate ways, and himself became a his cruises were the sair. His favorite haunts after returning from his precious landed he where Sound, Island Long inlets and islands of and jewsilver, gold, his buried cargoes, and, according to tradition, els.^ It is said that when brought to trial he confided to the authorities the location of a treasure secreted on Gardiner's Island, and the authenthat it was duly found and appropriated by them. ofFrom the coast of the ticated accounts of Captain Kidd's frequentings Sound, it may safely be said that from time to time he must have steered his bark into some of the numerous places of retreat along This, however, is only a reasonable inferThe Westchester shore. ence. There is nothing to show that he ever had a rendezvous within In the course of time popular imagination, stimulated our waters. by the fiction of his buried wealth, even ascribed to him expeditions Bolton reproduces a up the Hudson River as far as the Highlands. the present century during attempt an very entertaining account of i Van TVlfs Hist, of the Greater New York,