Hell Gate

"The Money Diggers" section of this collection contains five connected stories about pirates and buried treasure. In the first tale "Hell Gate" Irving's narrative persona, Diedrich Knickerbocker, recalls the thrills and terrors of sailing through "Hell Gate" channel in Long Island Sound. At flood tide the passage was flat and calm, but at half tide "Hell Gate" lived up to its name. Associated in local lore with shipwrecks, murder, and pirates' gold... Read this story to find adventures that will not leave you indifferent.