The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-07
WILL LIVE IN HELENA
4 Nan Who Circles the Globe as Easily
as Others Make q Short Trip.
Robert Dance. the Famous Trav
eier. Will Rest for a While I'm
the Shade OF the Rocky
Mountains.


Il n'rt u no ttuity utih't ~ '"'''bs
OF heaven in which a man that's lead
broke can recover his fortune 20 quickly
as he can in the United States of Amer
ica.''
The speaker was seated in a chair i'm
the otunda OF the Victor hotel. and as he
concluded the sentence he CAV several
huge Willis at his cigar. filling the at
mosphere in the vicinity with a clord of
smoke which hung like a dense fog over
the head of the smoker. He was n small,
spare. nervous man. with a face of unus-
ual intelligence and the air Of "A man who
had seen much OF the world and was fully
prepared to sustain any position he might
assume. He was clad in a neatly-fitting
suit of blue. On one of his right fingers
was a curiously wrought ring of pure gold.
consisting of fin bands ending in the
head and tail Of a snake. A green stone
about three inches long did service AS a
watch charm. Ii was afterwards learned
that the ring was the present of n native
prince OF India. and that the stone was
formerly "A nose ornament of one OF the
bellies of the island of New leland.
The stranger proved Ia lie Robert
Dance. one of the most extensive travel
ers tina has ever lived and a man whose
history reads stranger than fiction. Born
in Australia ~ years ago, his peregrina-
tons began while he was still n child, and
his entire life has been passed i'm "A sue
cession of excursions into countries,
known and unknown, civilized and
barbarous. Al one season Of the year he
has basked in the hot sun of Central AZ
RIGA ana al another sni'creu n, the SNOW
covered peaks OF ule hi.hais!as. III
there mas ever been = l'eraI eioos .ro.,er,
Robert Dancc u iha' hiah. Nne'her
peerlng q the caticninps OF Rome
climbing the pyraiiilus oi EHyp'' uraWinR
water from Jacons wen or ira'ersine 'he
Andes on thc haeh OF a p'Ueu' 'nule
whose hos'riis were SIN III orue, 70 pr
INIT the passage oil air IN that high aiti-
tuue' rance II the s"'ns uissa'isneo, er-
ratio being, pushing forward Tor new
worlds 10 conquer 10 opialh Soh-
nected history of Ms travels rom such u
ma was soon founu Ia oe an hnpossioii-
Ivy, SO new Jack was 'aheh WIN soihe
degree OF success.
"how nave i raised iuhus Iof such eN-
tensivc journeys repeater the traveller
IN answer To an inquiry wei, primer
paliy through luck. am IN turn a mer-
chant. horse trader, Spectator, anything
that gives a show Tor raising the cash.
bet ON horse races ana atn almost invari-
ably ~silccessfui. ole Day on the island OF
Ceylon bought a pile oil pearl oysters
~, -
Tor the pile, hired some natives To go
through u anu before night had realized
Sl.auo on my lille inNesttnent. was one
OF thc ilrst persons on tue uiaihohu neius
oi africa anu soon ai.erwarus sa,ieu ior
fngiaiiu WIN sio'"po worm oi SUN III th'
rough ~ my POSSESSION, IN iact fortune
seeihs oco,he "! way "ne'h'r 'haAe
any particular exertioh Va obtain itor not.
~ u true nave maoe seNer"i ip'ie ,riPs
rom Engiaiu III company WIN o'hers
VINO pore all uhe expenses, pu' u mas gen,
orally been my custom 10 travci lone. J
nave Nlsi'eu aihios, every country OF ,ne
globe some OF thein many uiies' u
l,po nave hiaue circ'i'"i 'he worn"
nv iSast zen 'iincs.
what art some oi 'he s'rihihg scenes
You nave Witnessed
&c All oiu uravclcr cNcry,uihg nero,les
mono'onous as unhc passes, put 1 VIII
name a lew interesting noints' Tor IN
stance me lslafu Oh 81. h.ieh"' Where
Napoleon bohalar'e was hrst purie1.
Eseryts,'y KNOWS no" 'h' R..a' rorh
rises CUT Oh uie s.a. lou ascei,u iroin,ie
ship by means OF Bio steps ana tue iiisi
9pJec, visited Is tne n,tis co,,age WHERE
Napoleon hved, ana next MS torip. lle
tomb is square aud built OF marble, with
steps leading down 10 Where 'he ppuy was
placed ~ years ago. ihc s!ot, Is inanc
beautiful 10y the most lovely beds al How
ers ] ever saw. linen There are many III.
tcres'ing points III ihuia. Inc towers oi
silence, IN winch tii. fars.es bury iieir
lead, are STRIKING objects 10 thc ,raVcier.
These towers are ROUND anu are 100 tcet
nigh. The top Is reached 10y means OF
adders. On The top II an iron grating,
aud here the bodies of the high caste
Iarsecs are iaiu' 10 ne torn 10 pieces by
the vuitnrcs. Al excavation, carried To a
great depth. connects beneath the owe
WIN tilr river 10 carry away those por-
tons oil the body which fall Through the
grating.
The most beautiful building ever saw
was Tie laJ, AT Agra, about l,lOo miles IN
the Interior OF Northern India above Cal
cntta. The structure Is built OF SHOW