The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-25

the count speedily became acquainted
with some of the leading persons
there, including the royal princess, a
dark lady with a weakness for gin,
cigarettes, and palm oil as a cosmetic.
She and some other distinguished per-
sons accompanied the count and coun-
tess on a picnic:
Arranged on the grass were pam
danus leaves, which made the table
cloth, While we seated ourselves on
palm leaves. The servant climbed a
cocoa-tree and gathered cocoanuts for
us. Then he made trench in the
earth and lit a fire, on which he put
a young pig. On top of this pig,
bananas and bread fruits were placed.
Then he gathered oysters-for this
was on the beach-fish which we ate
| raw, likewise little crabs and shrimps.
He also ~athered centipedes which
our hosts ate but which we did not
| touch.
Two photographs are given, one of
the picnic party eating baked pig and
raw fish, and another of the same
party after this repast, with the prin-
cess, her face shining with gin, benev-
olence and palm oil, affectionately
pressing the hand of the little countess
and gazing into her eyes.
| More and more mysterious does it
become why the Countess Festetics de
Tolna should ever have left the Count
Festetics de Tolna.
From Tahiti the yacht goes to Rara-
tonga, and we have a picture of the
| count in tire costume of the natives.
There are pictures of the queen and
| the queens ladies of honor and ladies
in waiting. They have more titles
than clothes. Thence the yacht goes
| to Samoa, where the following Incl
dent is narrated by the count:
The day of our arrival I saw coming
laboard a white man in his shirt-sleeves
with bare feet and his trousers rolled
up to his knees He carried letter
lof introduction from countryman of
mine, Count Robert Wurmbrand
Stuppach, brother of Count Leo
Wurmbrand Stuppach, first chamber
lain of His Imperial and Royal High
ness, the Archduke Francis Ferdi-
nand. In his letter he urged me to
visit Stevenson, the celebrated Ameri-
can (sic) writer, who lived in Apia.
when can I Sc. Mr.. Stevenson"
asked I Of the barefooted man; tell
him I shall be charmed to meet him,
and that I will go this very day to
call"
The barefooted man looked at me
in establishment. meet Mr.. Steven
SOM" he repeated, why you have met
him. I am Mr.. Stevenson"
I excused my error, which made us
both smile, and accompanied Steven
son to the cabin, where I presented
him to the countess, and where we
took a glass of champagne. Later
we called upon him, and were pre-
scented to Nine. Stevenson, whom we
found barefooted as we'll as all the
other members of the family She is
an agreeable and witty woman, who
writes all her husbands books after
his dictation. This great American
was like a king among the natives;
therefore, the Germans hated him.
From Samoa the yacht sailed to
Fiji where the count caught a snap
shot of a number of natives attack
ing a boat-load of white men with
their poisoned lances. 1t is not ex-
lplained whether the picture is a fake
or not. Numbers of other Fiji views
are taken by the count, most of them
ioL young lduleS wearing uuiulHS Dul
the microscopic leaf girdle of which
the count has spoken. This is diver
sified by one Fiji belle, who is wearing
a girdle made of human hair. They
are doubtless nice girls, but scarcely
such as one would choose for pink
teas.
From Fiji the yacht sails for Sydney.
On the way they had cyclone, and
a few other trifiing things happened
but the most striking was this:
| We had on board a large black dog
called Bob. One morning I heard
from my stateroom an unusual noise
on deck. 1 hurried up and saw that