Perhaps the bony hand of its former owner had been grasping the precious cup, and was drawn up along with it.

Now their rakes or fishing lines were loaded with masses of silver bullion.

There were also precious stones among the treasure, glittering and sparkling, so that it is a wonder how their radiance could have been concealed.
There is something sad and terrible in the idea of snatching all this wealth from the devouring ocean, which had possessed it for such a length of years.

It seems as if men had no right to make themselves rich with it.
It ought to have been left with the skeletons of the ancient Spaniards, who had been drowned when the ship was wrecked, and whose bones were now scattered among the gold and silver.
But Captain Phips and his crew were troubled with no such thoughts as these.

After a day or two they lighted on another part of the wreck, where they found a great many bags of silver dollars.