The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-24
Prince
Boris
THE CZARS COUSIN, AND BY AL ACCOUNTS A
GOOD FELLOW, ARRIVES ON THE COPTIG

those of the gentlemen accompanying
the Prince.
Reports from the Orient say that the
Prince is an enthusiastic admirer of
American women. From what those
who have associated with him say
however this admiration is not con-
fined solely to the American women
but seems to include the sex in general.
The Princess Ellen the youngest sis
ter of Grand Duke Boris, was recently
betrothed to Prince Nicholas of Greece,
hut the Prince "Oh, he prefers to enjoy
his life and his liberty" declares the
members pf his suite. He wants still
to continue a happy man" and they
say he plays no favorites.
Although closely allied to the reign
ing royalty of Russia, the Grand Duke
Boris who is a counsin of the present
Car, is a good fellow" according to
the American Interpretation of the
word. He has been touring through the
Orient for several months past and
curing that time was in India. AL
though he did not figure in quite as
sensational an incident as did the pre-
sent Car in 1891 when an attempt was
made to kill the latter at Otsu, the
young Duke has, nevertheless, been
through some exciting experiences dur
ing his trip.
He is a splendid athlete and sports
man and while in the northern part of
India, expressed the desire to go tiger
hunting 1t was near Mimingsing that
he went on this hunt. There were no
tigers in the jungle where the young
prince was taken, but leopards abound
ed in numbers and it fell to the Prince
to kill one of these animals The hunt
ing was conducted from the top of an
elephants back. While in a thick
jungle the prince was warned that a
leopard was approaching The animal
had been driven in toward the hunting
IArty by the beaters and was possess
ed of all the savagry of a cornered
beast 1t made a rush toward the ele-
phant on which the Prince was riding
The members of his suit who were on
other elephants nearby, shouted a
warning to him. for they feared the
leopard was about to charge the prince
and spring upon the elephant. The
Prince showd himself to be possessed of
excellent nerve however for he killed
the leopard with one rifle shot through
the hand of possible japanese fanatics
yards.
While in Japan the Prince paid the
Mikado an official visit. Inasmuch as
more than usual significance was at
tached to the Princes presence and the
memory of the attempt on the present
Cars life eleven years before was still
fresh i'm the minds of the japanese
officials, special care was taken to
shield the Prince Boris from violence at
the hands of possible Japanese fanatics
or robbers The result was that the
Prince was surrounded with detectives
morning, noon and night.
Full of the fire of royal youth, and
naturally elated over being free for
a time, from the cares of court life,
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age. He decided that he was perfectly
able to- take care of himself and, more-
over, he desired to see something of the
people and the country. One night he
watched his opportunity and gave the
six members of his suite and the Japa-
nese detectives the slip. He got away
from them so completely that for an
instant, they thought he must have
vanished into air. When they recOV-
cred their senses, there was a hue and
cry raised and within few minutes,
the entire police force of Yokohama
was detaild to search for the lost
Prince.
Nobody had seen him disappear and
nobody could be found who had seen
him. Whether the searchers visited the
right places to secure track of him
can not be stated, but in any event,
every sort of a place that showed a
light after dark was summarily ordered
to open in the name of the law. The
search was continued for hours, the
members of the missing princes suite
became desperate, the Japanese police
were franctic.
The city was searched high and low,
even the temples were visited. but un-
like the temple bells in Kipling's "On
the Road to Mandalay," the japanese
temple bells had not been calling the
Prince of if they had he had evidently
turned a deaf ear to them and wan
6ered along other paths.
Exciting as the Prince had found
hunting from an ordinary elephants
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