The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-14
THE FLuBDUBS' EXPLORATION.
THEY VISIT THE UNTAMED
HUCkLEBERRY INDIANS


| t,Iass~pre-Eind Twin Lighthouses
An Aisng the Sound and Sea Ser.
p~nt Visible After the Cere monies.
LARCHMoNT, Sept. l3-The venturesome
Flub Dubs, or the civilized Indians who form
the exploration and discovery section of the
I.archmont Yacht Club. put to sea to-day
in open boats and discovered the fierce and
untamed Huckleberry tribe, that group Of
savages which, from the highly cultivated
life of the New York Athletic Club. drifted
back to barbarism as the result of their seiz-
ing and inhabitirg Huckleberry Is'ard.
The return voyage was uneventful, save
for one incident. Some of the Flub Dub
pilots were confu ed by the startling changes
which the Government had made durir g
the day, and they want to know why twin
beacons have been erected at Sands Point
and Execution Rock, replacing the single
lights.
The astronomer of the Flb DlIbs didn't
notice the twin beacons, because that
wasn't his business, but he reported a
remarkable sort OF monerel mirage IN
which one Huckleberry Island was floating
in the air right over another Huckleberry
Island, and there was a Huckleberry tribe
on each island and layer OF pottery and
bottles between.
On rounding the eastern point of Echo
Bay the biologist Of the Flub Dub expedi-
ton noticed, with the aid Of glass, eleven
sea serpents. All were coiled together in
great mound, but the biologist is sure
there were eleven. because their heads
wriggled separately. The astronomer and
the biologist will not make their complete
reports for week or more. The Fluo
Dub who was in charge of the submarine
soundings and Investigations Of the ex-
petition says that he doesn't want to APP
pear ridiculous in the eyes Of the archR-
illogical world by seeming to be too posi-
tive. but he is quite sure he saw the we'll
preserved ruins of an ancient and sub
merged Tenderloin on the bottom of the
Sound, at about 40 degrees so minutes north,
70 degrees 40 minutes west.
The Flub Dubs took missionary with
them, but no rum, except Of course what
was carried in the medicine chests of the
five open boats. There was great deal Of
illness on the outward voyage, but the
expedition landed without any dead ones
to hamper the work Of examining the pot
terry Of the Huckleberry Tribe. Before
the Flub Dubs put TO sea there wore those
among them who would have carried strong
waters to the Huckleberries, but they were
restrained from overlooking the boats by
the Great Flub Dub Chief, Mighty-eagle-
with-the-eye-that-c can -see-a drink a mil
lion -miles-away.
As the boats of the explorers cautiously
approached the island with muffied oars
the Flub Dubs saw strange pictogra phs
which the inhabitants had drawn upon the
rocks with rude paint made Of clay and
huckleberry juice. These were pictures
of Huckleberry Indians with their pottery
o, They must %,t,, be eE glass flowers said an
Dub. "The Indians are not blowing but
drinking"
"You are both right said the usually
silent Fub Dub at the bow oar. 'They
are drinking from the bottle. but blowing
the wampum.'
But there was little time left for specula-
ton. As the fiat bottoms of the Flub Dubs'
boats grated on the shelving rock, the |
Huckleberry Indians, led by Chief Ru-dee,
rushed from the underbrush and capered |
about the beach in apparent derision of |
the strangers.
Each had sample of the islands pottery.
Some had jugs and others curious bottles |
filed with explosives. At signal from
their chief the bottle men released the
shoppers. They shot upward in a cloud |
of cork, so dense that it cast a shadow |
upon the sea and the swift ascending stop
pers gave fright to a flock of wild birds in |
full flight And all the Indians gave the |
wild, native yell. -Magni, magni. quartsl"
Chief Ru-dee who was once Rudolph |
Schaeffer Of the New York Athletic Club, |
waved silence to his tribe and the medicine |
man, known on the mainland as George
Nash, said:
BE still, braves, be still; great Chief
Ru-dee's heart is heavy because those
Who have come to do the friend-dance
and do the heart-talk are herd Of men |
and squaws' much on the bum.
Put hold! A messenger from the dinky |
fleet! We soon shall know tho truth"
Just then Flub Dub waded ashore from |
one Of the boats with a message for Chief |
Ru-Dee. As he was about to speak the |
chief grunted Re STILL" and the Indians |
made menacing gestures.
The ear of our chief" explained the !
man. must not be offended by |
the words that scrape and CRATE their way |
into the air through parched throat and |
over dry tongue. Drink, stranger, and
then speak"
The Flub Dub did as he was bid and then
addressed Chief Ru-dee. Chief Ru-dee |
wept; 49,.
Gitchee Manitou, the mighty and the God |
of the palefaces, help America. But back |
to thy friends, stranger. and bid them |
follow in to the council fire.
The messenger signalled and all the
Flub Dubs went ashore led by Hot Brau.
the sea title Of Morton w. Smith, the ex-
plorer. And the second to set foot upon
the rock was Kerrigan. who is sometimes
Charles W. Swain. And then came Dick
Ownes, a lovely squaw, and William s.
Alley, the lone missionary, who may not
know the address of the Methodist Book
Concern. and Oklahoma. alias Joseph r.
Graner, and Frank Hardy known to the
Flub Dubs as Spaghetti.
And of Flub Dubs there were, all told.
twoscore. and of Huckleberries three
score in the procession that danced its
way through Pottery Grove to the great
council fire The missionary noted, with
professional interest that the Huckle-
berries heaped upon the fire as burnt offer
ings thousands Of Holsters and clans and
fowl and fishes.
Then there was much talk and after
The Flub Dubs had told what education
had done for them, the Huckeberries
st ufied them with Holsters from the fire.
allowed them to gaze at the decorat ions
inside the pottery and then drove them
ha icla nd