Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-12

world over, are made in. an air-inf1ated
rubber suit, the closest fitting and most
convenient and serviceable of boats for
such voyages as he undertakes, and for
such adventures as he encounters in his
voyages. This very long river voyage is
to be made without companionship, and
for hundreds of miles, on the Yellowstone
and on the Missouri, the captain may not
see human face. and will be exposed to
danger and trouble which he must over
come without help. His chief danger
will probably be from the swift cur
rents, quicksands and bars of the
rivers; but one danger, not to
be lightly considered, is that some rifle
man, white or red, seeing him in the dis
lance and thinking him a river wait or
monster, may take a notion to shoot at
him. This latter danger, however, may
be lessened by information being given
along the river that he is making the
voyage, and as to its time and duration.
He will probably start from Fort Custer
about the 18th inst, and will make, in
the swift currents of the Yellowstone and
Missouri, using his paddle constantly,
eighty to 100 miles day. le
Wherever the captain appears on his
voyages there is always more or less curl
| osity as to his object, and it is often In
convenient and unpleasant to him that
the people do not know. Hence it should
be known that he does not lecture or
give exhibitions when on these trips, has
| nothing to sell and nothing to advertise
and does not take up collections. His
one business object is to add to the
notes and material for. his book,
'sRoughing 1t In Rubber" which is to be
published the coming winter. But, will
it pay, and how do you make living,
| are questions often asked of him. To the
first it may be answered that these voy
ages are made in the Captains vacations
| from other business, and that since he has
undertaken to write book telling of his
adventures, of the places he has visited
and of the people he has met, he enjoys
gathering material for it,. To the second
question it may be answered that among
| the numerous rewards and marks of
admiration he has received from foreign
societies and governments, there are
three which together carry an annual in
come of $3.50, in addition to which he has
considerable regular income for torpedo
patents, and can make large earnings by
giving nautical exhibitions for pay, as
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of $21, 900 and expenses for sixty such
exhibitions.
Captain Boyton has made so many
voyages that an enumeration of all of
them would be wearisome. His noted
adventures began with his attempt to re-
| turn to the American coast when ESQ
miles in the Atlantic, from which he was
restrained by the officers of the steamship
| on which he sailed, and his leap from the
same steamship off the coast of Ireland,
when he made his way to land despite a
storm which while he was on the water,
and in that immediate vicinity, wrecked
half hundred vessels. Since then he
has crossed the Bay of Dublin, the Eng
lish Channel, the Bay of Naples, the
Straits of Messina, and Lake Trasimene,
and, besides hundreds of short trips,
taken long voyages on the rivers Rhine,
Danube, Pc, Arno, Tiber, Rhone,
Somme, Loire, Tagus, Guadilquiver,
Garonne, Seine and L Orne, in Europe, and
Detroit, Merrimac, Connecticut and 9TH
er rivers in America, his longest river
voyage till now having been from Oil
City, Pa, down the Allegheny, Ohio and
Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico,
a distance of 2,342 miles, and
from Oil City to Cairo made
with floating ice in the rivers.
In these voyages he has encountered
great perils by storms, waterfalls, whlrl-
pools and quicksands, from all of which
he was saved by the buoyancy of his rub
Der suit. His late adventures in South
America and capture by the Peruvians,
are familiar to news readers. On the
Danube, being asleep, he was drawn un-
der the wheel of floating mill. On an
other occasion he had to fight sharks, and
again he was compelled frequently to ex-
plode dynamite charges under the water
to drive away the sea fish which crowded
upon him. At one time he was caught
in quicksand. On the river Tagus he
ran 102 waterfalls, one eighty feet high.
But best of all, in his numerous voyages
and exhibitions it has been his good for
tune to save many lives
On most of his voyages Capt. Boyton
has lowed little supply boat, made for
him in France, which he named "Baby
Nine" This has been worn and knock
ed about so much in all the waters of the
civilized world, that a new boat was re-
uuired for the Yellowstone and Missouri
voyage. This has been made by a ST.
Paul coppersmith and has been painted
by Capt. Greiner, of the steamer st. ia
cobs Oil 1t is marked s'Baby Mine, of
ST. Paul." and is SO inches long, IA inches
wide and 10 inches deep. Its cargo as loaded
for the start from Fort Custer, includes
revolver rife and cartridges, barometer,
thermometer, compass, note book, maps,
medicine chest, containing of course a
bottle of St. Jacobs Oil,) shaving tools,
Ratchet, matches, cigars, fishing tackle,
signal rockets and flash lights, canned
provisions, spirit lamp and cooking uten-
sis, cement and rubber cloth for repairs,
and, in short, complete outfit for the
voyage.
But the captains '"Baby Mine'' is not
large enough to carry his souvenirs of
his voyages, which he would like to show
to the newspaper men he may meet.
These are plate, medals, decorations and
trophies, presented him by life-saving
and humane societies, scientific associa-
lions and presidents, kings and queens of
Europe. Among these are the Cross of
the Order of Italy, presented by Victor
Emanuel, the Order Of SITS. Maurice and
Lazarus, presented by Marshal Mel ahon,
the Marine Cross of Spain, from King
Alphonso, and the Grand Cross of the
Knights of st. John, presented by the
beautiful young queen Mercedes. A SUI