Pirate...The Buzzard...Olivier LeVasseur?
While researching author "gjb" and his "Treasure Net" thread..."An Oak Island Reconstruction", I came across information about the Pirate... Olivier LeVasseur.
"gjb" had an earlier time reference for a Colonel Jean LeVasseur and considered his connection to Oliver Levasseur.
"gjb" also writes about his research on 3 Triangles located at Oak Island.
This and other coincidences lead me to believe that the man known as
La Buse...
The Buzzard... may have a connection to
"The Treasure of Oak Island"!
"Olivier LeVasseur (1688 or 1690 — 7 July 1730), was from a wealthy French family and very educated, he became the pirate nicknamed La Buse (The Buzzard), called thus because of the speed and ruthlessness with which he always attacked his enemies.
He is also known for allegedly hiding one of the biggest treasures in pirate history, estimated at over £1 billion, and leaving a cryptogram behind with its whereabouts."
LeVasseur had "Pirated" the coast of Oak Island from Newfoundland to New England in the early 1700's.
"LeVasseur captured the Portuguese great galleon Nossa Senhora do Cabo (Our Lady of the Cape), loaded full of treasures belonging to the Bishop of Goa, also called thePatriarch of the East Indies, and the Viceroy of Portugal, who were both on board returning home to Lisbon. The pirates were able to board the vessel without firing a single broadside because the Cabo had been damaged in a storm and to avoid capsizing the crew had dumped all of its 72 cannon overboard, then anchored off Réunion island to undergo repairs."
"The booty consisted of bars of gold and silver, dozens of boxes full of golden Guineas, diamonds, pearls, silk, art and religious objects from the Se Cathedral in Goa, including the Flaming Cross of Goa made of pure gold, inlaid with diamonds, rubies and emeralds. It was so heavy, that it required 3 men to carry it over to LeVasseur's ship."
After this plunder, LaVasseur refused the King's pardon as the condition required him to return his treasure.
The Buzzard..."was captured near Fort Dauphin, Madagascar and then taken to Saint-Denis, Réunion and hanged for piracy at 5 p.m. on 7 July 1730."
Legend tells that when he stood on the scaffold he had a necklace around his neck, containing a cryptogram of 17 lines, and threw this in the crowd while exclaiming:
"Find my treasure, the one who may understand it!"
Olivier Levasseur was a
Freemason and used the
Freemason's Script for his
Cryptogram.
In 1947 Englishman Reginald Cruise-Wilkins found three cryptograms compiled in mysterious alphabet, a rebus, or at least in initiatory writing which could be put in relation to masonic symbolism and the Clavicles of Solomon
Some of Cruise-Wilkins translation:
"The treasure chamber is somewhere underground and must be approached carefully, to avoid being inundated. It is protected by the tides, which require damming to hold them back, and is to be approached from the north. Access is through a stairwell cut into the rocks, and tunnels leading under the beach."
Cruise-Wilkins stated...."Something weird stunned me: how come that in The Buzzard's cryptogram, we only find three pointy "A" when all the others are squared?"
It has been stated for the location of the island...Look for the three large piles of rocks that each form a Triangle
"Cruise-Wilkins compares and convinces himself that the "A" in the text are the same as on the rock. On the rock, the "A" forms a triangle. And Bibique as a trigonometry amateur is then convinced that we just need to trace a bissector in the right way to find the location of the treasure. Except that we first need to find the original location of the stone!"
"And why would a pirate go to all that trouble to hide a treasure that no one was trying to steal"?
"It's amazing what these guys did... the passion, Cruise-Wilkins marvels. And after all, what else did a semi-retired pirate have to do"?
Oops! I'll leave it to "you"! 
