ISLAND HISTORY: The lost treasure sites of Kauai

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ISLAND HISTORY: The lost treasure sites of Kauai

During the 1870s, a man named Keoike, a resident of Nukolii, Kauai, acquired in some way a fortune of $10,000 worth of eight-sided golden slugs and had shown his friend, Josia Keawe, one of them. Afterwards, Keawe confided to Sheriff Samuel Wilcox that Keoike had $10,000.00 stashed away, an enormous amount of money in those days. Years later, when Keoike was dying, Sheriff Wilcox’s brother, sugar planter Albert Wilcox, the guardian of Keoike’s d…