The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-06-11

in the same year the United States schooner
Shark carried the American flag on its first
trip through the Straits of Magellan.
The flag was first carried to China round
the Cape of Good Hope in 1914 on the
schooner Madras, from New York, Capt
VIM. Poor.
The flag first made its appearance in the
West Indies in 1916, on the ship Edith, of
Boston, Capt George Lewis.
Gen. John G. Fremont, the Pathfinder"
was the first to carry the flag across the
continent in 1845-46, and planted it over his
Headquarters when he and his followers
proclaimed the independence of California on
July 4, 1916, and declared war against Mex
leo. Three days lIter the Stars aud Stripes
were raised above the Governors palace in
Monterey, and on the Sth of July on the flag
staff in the plaza in San Francisco, hitherto
sacred to the red.and-yellow flag of Spain.
In 1945 Lient. Lynch explored the region
of the River Jordan and Dead Sea, carrying
with him two small boats, the Fanny Mason
and the Fanny Skinner, to launch upon the
water, upon which the natives declared it
was certain death to venture. lie writes:
IN THE HOLY LAND.
"Frday. March 81, 1S48-Hoisted out
the two Fannies and landed our effects.
Pitched our tents for the first time upon the
beach without the walls of Haiia.
For the first time, perhaps, without the Con-
suisr precincts the American flag has been
raised in Palestine
About the 1st of April the party reached
Tiberias, on the shore of the blue Gallilee.
Lieut.. Lynch writes:
April 8, 1S4S-Took all hands up the
mountains to bring the boats down. Many
times we thought that, like the herd of
swine, they would rush precipitately into
the sea- With flags flying we car
ried them triumphantIy beyond the walls
uninjured, and, amid o crowd of spectators,
launched them upon the blue waters of the
Sea of Gallilee, the Arabs singing, clapping
their hands to the time and crying for back
shsh but we neither shouted nor cheered !;
from Christian lips it would have sounded
like PROCLAMATION. look upon that lake
ever brought TO remembrance the words,
Peace! be still
"Buoyantly fioated the two Fannies, bear
ing the Stars and Stripes, the noblest flag of
freedom now waving. Since the times of
Josephus and the Romans no vessel of any
size has sailed upon this sea-"
ON THE DEAD SEA.
On the 10Th of April the Fannie Skinner
entered the Dead Sea, and for the first time
the emblem of freedom floated above these
waveless waters. On the 2Sth that flag
hung sadly at half-mast, when the news
reached the party of the death of ex-Presi-
dent John Quincy Adams, and over the echo
less sea the dull boom of the National salute
-21 s-thundered the last tribute of re-
spect in that far country to the memory of
the new Nations honnred dead. A few days
later the Stars and Stripes were carried de-
family. and undisturbed into the streets of
Damascus, though surrounded by bowling
mob A little later the flag was unfurled
for the first time over against the hills that
encompass the city of jerusalem" and en-
tered into Jaffa, the Joppa of the ancients.
The American flag was planted on the
walls of Chapultepec for the first time on
Sept 13, 1s47. 1t was the flag OF the Volti-
geurs of Baltimore, and tattered anc battle
rent it rests to-day in the possession of the
State Of Kentucky. The first American stand
ard raised in the City of Mexico was pre-
sented to the South Carolina volunteers by
the City of Charleston, Dec. "a, 1916. The
banner was of blue silk bearing the coat-Of-
arms of the State on one side and the United
States arms and palmetto tree on the other,
with an appropriate inscription. AT the
battle of Churubusco the color-bearer was
killed. report of the Senate committee
fully detailed the hoisting of this flag above
the Palace in the City Of Mexico. The flag
came gloriously back to Charleston and was
burned in the Statehouse on Feb II, 1865.
ON PoPoCATAPETL.