revolutionary armies it was placed on a British vessel which was supposed to anchor in the Harbor; instead the ships Captain killed the guards and fled to Cocos Island where he buried the treasure and that years later treasure hunters still tried to find legendary lost treasure of Lima. Underscoring this legend are several facts: 1] In 1855 a New York Newspaper printed an 1854 letter from San Francisco California which recounted that there was going a treasure expedition to Cocos Island based on a near deathbed confession-only the treasure did not come from Lima but was alleged to be from a Spanish gallon that had been captured in 1816 by pirates and buried on Cocos Island 2] August Gissler who lived on Cocos Island from 1889 to 1908; his quest for treasure was also unsuccessful: in over twenty years he never found more than six gold coins despite diligent searching 3] By 1929 the version of the so-called Cathedral of Lima/Treasure of Lima was printed in an American newspaper Burials Francisco Pizarro Archbishop of La Plata and Lima, and Viceroy of Peru, Friar Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo Jerónimo de Loayza Augusto Vargas Alzamora Luigi Arrigoni Juan Guevara Antonio de Mendoza Juan Landázuri Ricketts See also List of buildings in Lima Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima References External links La Catedral de Lima website by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima Roman Catholic churches in Lima Roman Catholic churches completed in 1540 Roman Catholic churches completed in 1552 Roman Catholic churches completed in 1797 Lima Tourist attractions in Lima Colonial Peru Lima Renaissance architecture in Peru 1535 establishments in the Spanish Empire 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Peru Neoclassical church buildings in Peru