Excerpt from The Letters of an Englishman Once upon a time an Englishman organised an expedition Whose end and aim were to dis cover the hidden treasure Oi the ancient Jewish kings. He took advantage Of all the classic artifices. A cipher indicated the hid ing-place of the gold, the silver, and the precious stones. He was said to work in secret, and by changing shifts to keep his diggers at their toil day and night. One report declared that his motive was merely archaeological. Another hinted that already the Solomonic regalia had been placed for safety in his yacht. And Whatever Of truth there might be in this conflict of rumours, it seemed certain that the enterprising English man was putting into practice the sternly logi cal theory Oi the Gold Bug. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.