The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-16

tons; ! squared the matter by charging
people sixpence each for coming on hoard
anu When this business got dull / caught
q SHARK ana charged them Sixpence each
10 look at that. The shark was twelve
Ieet SIX inches in length, and carried a
pnose ety OF twenty-six, not one of them
Knife sI iat Two, Two feet in length. A slit of
Ter. which. changed constantly. kent
. q. h alive one whole day. In less than
an hour from the time 1 heard of the
ugly brute it was on deck and on exhibi-
oion with rather more than the amount
Ih tns sprays tonnage dues already col
TToleu, lnen l hired good Irishman
Tom Howard by name, who knew ali
a sh sharks. both on the land and in
asmsWer questions and lecture; When I
round that l could not keep abreast Of
tV e o gerst nc s turned the responsible
bank, where l had been to deposit MONEY
cary ;Gy IN the day, found Howard in the
i r,,as sir OF very very excited crowd. telling
GOOD show; the people wished to see II
anu IT was my wish that they should
e oeo owing to his over-stimulated .enthusi,
a Th' 1 was obliged to let Howard resign.
me income from the show and the mo-
c ceri, OF the tallow had gathered in the
strait of Magellan, the last of which
mad disposed of to a German soan-hoi,.r
al samoa, put me in ample funds.
8, II II sounds odd to hear scholars and
a fact that three Beers of considerable
learned ability prepared a work to sun
S1rt that contention. While Captain
Sloeum was at Durham thew came from
fretorla to obtain data from him:
III ney seemed annoyed when 1 told them
rinnce ehey could not prove it by my expe-
ghost of the Dark Ages for research
went ashore, and left these three wise
chart e', p of th over the Sprays track on a
ca hothing to them. for the chart was
on Mercator's projection, and. behold. If
was nat. The next morning l met one
rylng a large Bible, not different from
the one l had read. and who tackled me
Cod Coy 1ii gou nl III you respect the Word of
nat aat- IF the Word of God stands on a
h Iasin world rid, began whatF cried he.
making as if he would run me thro,igh
win an assagai-"whatr' he Shouted in
astonshment and rage, while / iumped
a Had , 10 oooge e the imaginary, weapon.
oeen armed with a real weapon, the crew
Oh tba rne spray would have died martyr
MN across the street, L bowed and made
curves with my hands He responded
Win Wltn level, swimming movement of his
hands. "A pamphlet by these TransvaaI
seoSraphers, made up of arguments from
sources high and low to prove their the
DRY. was mailed to me before / sailed
the globe aiooiiu
Al Pretoria he met President Krueger
the Transvaal President:
His excellency received me cordially
enough but my friend Judge Beyers the
gentleman who presented me. by men
tlcnlng incidentally that / was on a vow
age around the world, unwittingIy gave
great ofrense to the venerable statesman
Whlch We both regretted deeply Mr.
krueger corrected the Judge rather
SHARPLY. reminding. him that the world
Is nat You don't mean around the
world, said the President: sit is impos-
s1oi ,e,. You mean in the world. Impossi-
Ole! said he, impossible!' and not an
other word did he utter either to the
Judge or me- The Judge looked at me
ana looked at the Judge, who should
nave known his ground, so to speak. and
Mr.. Kruger glowered at us both. NV
friend the Judge seemed embarrassed. I
was delighted, for in those DAYS I was
fond OF fun, and the incident pleased me
more than anything else that could have
ton quarried out of Dom Paul" some
OF whose sayings are famous OF the.
English he said. They took first my
coat and then my trousers" He also
South African Republic" Only unthink-
Ing people call President Kruger dull.
From Cape Town, Captain Slocum pro-
ceeded to the famous Island of ST. Sell
ena, where General Cronje and many
Boer prisoners are now confined; next to
Trinidad Island on the northern coast
of South America, and thence home
where the stanch little sloop tied up
again at Fairhaven, after an absence of
three years and three months. Captain
Slocum says the sioop was in a better
condition than when she started, and
was sound as a nut and tight as the best
vessel af1oat, while the crew weighed a
pound more than the day of sailing
he felled the first tree for the construc-
ton of the Spray.
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