Evening journal., 1897-03-26
DUTRFUL TRAVELLER.
en-year-old Boy Who Has
Seen the World.
dAN7 STIRRING EXPERIENCES

MAN L ollhhlNG bAI hhlhNO
hway 20 sea Froaii liverpool at
ive, and the British isles We're Ncvcr
Enough to Hold Him tfterward.
Is to Go Home Now.
! YoRK. March c6.-Aftor visiting |
al tho VOL known ports of the |
and travelling through as many |
as were known to the Wandering |
bccumulating q fund Of experiences |
Igould have turned many mans |
thitl BERNARD Dunlop - years old. |
Ist tmn3d mp in this city as bright
milling as though no had just been
ed from his mothers S apron strings.
b, though small and slender, with
, hair, fringing laughing brown
has moro pluck and resource i'm his
body than is often granted to one of
ender years. He is English born,
18th curious PIC Election for foreign
ries and for travel he refuses to abide
D such circumscribed limits as the
h isles offer, and though occasionally
ting tho scenes of his childhood days
5ariably hies him forth, after a few
rest, like Don Quixote in search
" adventures.
on he first saw the light 10 years ago
Kitchen street, Liverpool, he was
stined TO pass the first l2 years Of his
18th his parents. His father was un-
gently a steward on the Cunard
ship Umbria and had a family of
boys and two daughters, of which
pp was the latest bl TN. When the
hd reached the age of -, he ran away
home with two schOolmates and
ed on the British vessel Forth, bound
emerara and Calcutta. The Indian
vas reached after five months voy
and the three boys were paid Off.
DunlOp's friends were lost carly in
buffle ana the intrepid little seaman
cd place in a Calcutta barber shop.
are neither numerous nor large
~ the dark skinned Hindoos and
lhists, and after ten weeks as a bar
boys he Joined the crew of the steam
Ahratta of the Brocklebank line, bound
Celyon. The steamer met with ad.
gales, had part Of her cargo burn ID
fire in her hold and was so genera "
up by the trip that Dunlop the small,
he was paid off and got ashore, de-
to 90 home to his mother. He ran
from the Mahratta and took ship
dundee, Scotland, where, upon his ar
he received more money and started
Kitchen street, Liverpool He walked
the home of his ancestors without
ling after IA months absence and de
ed upon the table e5, for the sup.
of the children, as he explained.
Welcome was that of the prodigal son.
Looked Upon as Black sheep.
ne month of homo life satiated Ber
]. He was sent back to school, but the
her looked upon him as a black sheer
would not receive him within the
So away he ran again and shipped OF
Nova Scotian ship Avon, bound fol
island, in the gulf of Mexico. On
ming port after a long and tedious
ge ne took French leave of his vesse
slowed himself in tho hold of a tus
ng for Biloxi, on the mainland !.
away. There he secured place q
)oy in n hotel. Barely two weeks ha'
cd, however, when he got note from
lipmate in Mobile asking him to joil
iomrade there. Dunlop knows no hosi
Y whom there is a new experience il
. {. and he took the next freight south
{ ngs did not prosper with him there
again his mind began to dwell upol
English home. He shipped in the Ius
ior Barrow, and in two months wa
on England shores. A second tim
walked in unannounced to his family
I had been absent seven months. but h
lght no savings with him this time
he was looked at-or he thought h
somewhat askance.
] two weeks he was off again. He has
d back to Barrow, secured a berth o.
ship j. ID. Everett and sailed for Mon
dec. Upon his arrival there, in orde
to change his regular habits, no i'm
lately ran away from the ship and &c
ard the British vessel Yola, bound fo
ario, in the interior of the Argentin
lublic. On shore again and with . Al
tine dollars in his pocket, he wandere
ut till his nostrils began to crave tn
sea air and his legs to languish fC
rolling of a good ship beneath then
Joined the Portland bark Edmun
ney, which sailed for Santos TheI
1 in he deserted his ship and found
IN on the Norwegian brig finnvi'
ch weighed anchor on Dec. 10, boun
Charleston.
he juvenile wanderer arrived
. rleston on the 2d of this month an
lied to the British consul to be sci
ne He was forwarded to the BIRTHS
sui in this city on tho Clyde liner Sen
. lie, and no stepped ashore here. He WI
en- before Consul Bennett, who said q
4 3 was not within his province, as Dui
had come to this country in a vess
ng other than an English flag II
was taken in charge by Superinten
Alexander of the Sailors home.
there that the youthful traveller to
tale of adventure He showed ma
lus memory for details, and his ey
iced with delight at each recital of h
repeated departures from home, y
. ough it all he maintained the seriOl
neanor Of "a historian Of affairs Of il
/ tanco to the times. He has not yet d
+ cd on his next move in case he is n
( wnrded TO his home, and even shou
be decided upon It is doubtful if
i abide by the plans laid down for hiI
Nansen VIII Lend the Fran.
,oNpoN. March 26.-The Daily Ne,
morning says that DR. Nansen, q
. tic explorer, will lend the Fran. &