Then he opened them and stood motionless with amazement.
Three compartments divided the coffer.

In the first blazed piles of golden coin.

In the second bars of unpolished gold were ranged.

In the third lay countless fortunes of diamonds, pearls and rubies, into which he dived his hands as eagerly as a starving man would plunge into food.
After having touched, felt and examined these treasures, John Stevens rushed through the ship like a madman.

He leaped upon the deck, from whence he could behold the sea.