These two men, with a diving suit and rowing-boat, found a greater treasure than has fallen to many a powerfully-equipped expedition, and it is strange to think that the fisherman who hauled the doubloons up from the bottom was probably a direct descendant of one of the Irish peasants who stood on the shore on that wild Armada night in 1588 and watched the mighty Spanish ship founder. The diver had the good sense to realize that there might be something in the old story, he spent weeks investigating it, and he reaped a snug little fortune as his reward. Nor did he squander the treasure that Fate flung his way. The same good sense which enabled him to find it also enabled him to keep it, for he turned his Spanish doubloons into a row of houses which he called “Dollar Row” in order to perpetuate his good luck. [Illustration: HARD AT WORK HUNTING THE TREASURE OF TOBERMORY. WASHING THE MUD AND SAND DREDGED UP PROM THE BAY IN ORDER TO FIND THE SPANISH DOUBLOONS REPUTED TO BE LOST HERE OVER THREE CENTURIES AGO WHEN WILD WEATHER HELPED DRAKE TO ROUT THE ARMADA] It is another tale of the Spanish Armada, a tale which up to the present has not ended quite so happily, that lures men to try their luck in the Bay of Tobermory in the Isle of Mull just off the west coast of Scotland. Somewhere beneath the waters of this pleasant bay is averred to lie a treasure so prodigious that it would make its discoverer a millionaire twice over. Here, if tradition speaks truly, a man has the chance of dragging from the seabed beautiful jewels and wonderful golden cups, with Spanish doubloons worth at least £2,000,000 which went down with the _Florencia_. Many who have studied the question believe that the _Florencia_ undoubtedly sank here, but an element of doubt creeps in when it is known that the Spaniards themselves swore that the _Florencia_ returned after the disastrous expedition. During the Great War the British Government did its best to conceal the loss of H.M.S. _Audacious_ in order to deceive the Germans as to the strength of our navy, and it may have been the Spaniards, three centuries ago, who introduced this practice. About this, nothing is known with certainty. It all happened a long time ago, and the years have tended to obscure the facts. Whether the statement that the _Florencia_ returned was true, or whether it was a deliberate falsehood spread forth to give her enemies the impression that Spain was still strong in ships of the line, is an open question. Whatever be the name of the vessel, the evidence that a Spanish galleon actually did founder in Tobermory Bay in 1588 seems fairly strong. Moreover, it is backed up by material facts in the shape of a cannon, some cannon balls, a weapon or two and a doubloon that have been brought up from the bottom of the bay by different treasure-hunters.