“Henry Avery”

When we hear ships, we usually think of pirates, at least most of us. One pirate that caught my attention recently was Captain Avery, an English pirate who sailed in the Atlantic and Indian oceans around the mid 1690s. Captain Avery had no allegiance to any clan or belief because he wanted to be his own leader with his own ambitions and his own rule. He didn’t like the idea of someone commanding him around and his ego was bigger than the ship he sailed, The “Fancy”. Avery used to be part of the Royal English Navy and that gave him a lot of sailing experience to be a pirate. He plundered many ships, an estimation of at least 11 vessels being captured by September 1695 and was nicknamed “The King of Pirates”. What got me writing about Henry Avery was a game called “Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End”. It’s an adventure/third person shooter game where you play as a man by the name of “Nathan Drake” to look for Captain Avery’s hidden treasure. In the game it’s revealed that Captain Avery formed a secret alliance with renown pirates around the world who want to hide all of their treasure somewhere unknown and hidden from the rest of the world. So they all gathered together to form a pirate civilization, tucked away from the rest of the world and hid their treasure. It’s revealed in the ending where the treasure is hidden, but I won’t spoil it any further and let you play the game to find out.

This is based on a true story, Henry Avery did bury his treasure somewhere, but it’s not exactly clear on where or if he really did team up with a bunch of pirates or not. What is clear however is the fact that he buried it somewhere near the “Lizard” after the 1695 raid on some ships in the Arabian sea. See the document below for the source:

This means that someone, anyone in the world can still find the legendary treasure of Captain Henry Avery. If someone could take this document and expand upon it, finding clue after clue just like in the game Uncharted to eventually seek his treasure, it would be very impressive and rewarding. I mean, the adventure alone is already a treasure itself.