Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-05-29
THE BEACHING.
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mania, Feb. 3, We learn what Is
disappointment to many, many the
world over. and a deep grief to two
that the voyage of the Shark is
finished.
| quote a portion Of what Mr..
London wrote with his own hand. his
first writing for months.
Mrs. London. whose heroic forth
tude well deserves the praise she
shall receive, has written her
Diary. of which I have seen add
vance sheets; a most remarkable rec
ord of adventures written in a. fasci-
mating way, which is probably in
the publishers hands at the present
time.
have little picture Of Mrs.
| have little picture OF Mr..
London standing near the step OF
Mr. Stevenson house. what re-
Ception would he have had had Tu
sitala then been an occupant of his
beautiful home,
Mrs. London says:
Our visit to Tusitala's grave was
most impressive Jack and | agreed
that to no other mans tomb would
we make such an arGuous climb.
But to Stevenson tomb - well, one
loves Stevenson though he does not
seem dead. does hep"
Mr.. and Mrs London were to
leave for their Sonoma ranch In dear
Canifornia in few weeks from the
date Of their letter. that Is, as soon
as Mr.. London was able to leave the
Sanatorium.
The Ranch" is his own prescrip-
tion for his illness, ana | am sure It
will be all that he hopes for II.
For how sweet home is. after
/ even the pleasures of travel? To
go to your own bed at night, to hear
your own birds sing In the morning:
to have your skies and woods and
friends about you once more Is bet
ter than the best tonic all the learn
ed doctors can Concoct.
A BRIEF EXPLANATION.
! left the Shark at anchor in the
| SolOmOns and came down To Aus
tralia by steamer TO go into hos
pital. expected to return to the
Solomons and go on with the voyage
around the world.
So confident was ! upon my ar
| rival In Sydney of soon getting well
TINT | uuranI IN civ. ,,f
lectures -- a double series of lee
lures - all over Australia. All
plans were arranged, etc, when my
condition compelled me to cancel all
lectures, forego all the things that
would be a nervous strain upon me,
and to dispatch navigator to the
Solomon Islands to bring the Shark
down to sydney. shall sell the
Shark here and return to California.
Somewhere. somehow, and God
knows how, In the past year-and Il
half in the tropics, have had my
nervous equilibrium overthrow.
! arrived In Sydney, Australia,
suffering from five serious affliG-
operation, had caused me great pain
for months. at times compelling me
TO navigate the SNAK from a cot
on which | lay on deck, at times
rendering me so helpless that I
could not walk a hunCred yards
without being exhausted and in, ter
| rible agony. This operation was
successfully performed In Sydney.
One of my other Affections, con-
tracted In the Solomon Islands, and a
most distressing thing 1t was, has
heen cured. The third Affections.
namely, malarial fever, Is not yet
cured, but | am through the worst
of II. the attacks are much lighter
now, and more infrequent, and II Is
a matter Of short time when II
also will be cured.
Remain two other sicknesses. both
nervous In origin. One Of these the
doctors thoroughly understand. and
are agreed In their diagnosis. 1t is,
however, a, mysterious disease, for
which there is no known cure, and
about which the specialists them
selves, not merely In Australia, but
In all the world, are very pessimis-
tic. There are numerous cases of
spontaneous, cure. in themselves as