The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
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the top of date palm. hioh provide ed us with dessert at exact y Che rtsat moment After we had eaten 2 s-,ae of bushels of these we felt refrrsapF enough to climb down. and discoy y$rsi that we had landed fin Arabia. We made our way tp Europe without any E notable happening. I will mere fnei' ton. as another, Il ustration of thr q gree of heA that all the kin came ril iny face fin one piece. had it tannsf and made ift1 pair of snoes. wlieu l kept on day and night fof f5drir~ years without their show ing the si sue. est signs of wear
 "The heat that we felf cn that mem orable day reminds me of tlfe cruise that took me into the Guf stream some years ago. It Is true that the weather happened to he more than 'rdt- nariIy warm while was there. and thls may have increased the heat Of the Gulf Stream beyond the ordinary. Al any rate. on very sunny days the wa ter always grew SO hot at noon thar it was sufficient merely to dip our meat and other foods into it to nave IL thof- oughly cooked.
 What surprised me the most were the fish that played around the ship ID enormous numbers. quite merrlly anu lively. only to die the moment they were pulled out with line or net. by the time they reached the deck they were well cooked and all ready to eat.
 we were puzzled for Iona time to understand how these fully cvoked Ash could ss~im and play in the hcii- ing water. but the explanation, like the explanation of all wonders, was simpis enough It was the force or nhoit. The fish became accustomed to the tem- perature gradually. Then, when lucy are hauled into the, cool air, ot ccu.s tv,f cooks them.
 "so there is nothing very marvellous about 1t sFtsr all.
 "Or that same voyage 1 nan an cellent hunting dog aboard One aAs when our observations showed tnst " were at least thousand mles L..s" | land. I observed that the dog kept coha~ ,ng to a point again and again. told the captafu that we must pc near | game of some kind, He laughed | aloud. and others trlned him flnaly | I wagered ono hundred guineas that we would find game within hair an | hour.
 l tered before the sailors, who had been | fishing. hauled in a shark of ordinary | size. The dog made dead point ~ | the sea monster, and said: There is the gHme.'
 l ions, when the shark was opened we found fin him six pairn of living part | ridgel The poor birds must have been there a long time, fof one of them was setting on seventeen eggs. During the rest of that voyage we had fresh same | constantly, as one or the other tne | par rtridges was sure to breed.
 eve had a most severe storm dur | tnx that voyage which Is worth men, tioning. It began with phenomenon that never observed before, A strong
 wind blew from the east for three nain-
 utes and then from the west for three
 minutes. alternating during the whole
 night without pause. With the dawn ] came a mighty gale from the north.
 It lasted for a whole month. We saw
 neither sun, moon nor stars during all
 that time. The power of this wind can be better appreciated when I men-
 tion that our ship did not climb to
 the crest of a wave and then sbo't down Into the trough. and so son. For that whole month it was simply blown | from crest to crest fin a perfectly vfi- zontal line. Shis is something that happens only rarely to a vessel like ours, that must have weighed many
 thousands of tons, with her 500 men and seventy cannon.
 fwhen the storm was over we were. .dismasted and quite helpless. Our pr37
 visions were exhausted and we were getting worried. when suddenly every-' body shifted. The air had most req markable aroma. If was that of l roast beef oranges and cigars. so tpowerfuI and nutritious was the air.
 that we lived on the smell alone for a. 1 whole week. On the eighth day wel
 sighted land. It was Havana.
 we landed the next day, and hap
 pened to tell some of the tobacco'
 planters a few of my adventures. My
 hearers were sJ amazed that some of
 them stood on their heads with wpn--
 der. while others clutched their hair
 with both hands and held it down.
 crying that my narratives were raising
 their hair
 "I left their company at the first op-.
 portunity. People who cannot distin-f
 guish between pure fabrication and
 simple truth simply told are beyond
 hope. Everybody who knows mer knows how utterly impossible 1t
 is for me to tell even the least.
 of falsehoods. I believe that this re- pugnance to lies Is an inherited trait
 in our family. for I have several rela-
 tives who are seized with severe fits.
 whenever the slightes untruth is ut- tered in their prence. Good nightF
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