The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-03-25

Copyright. 1908, by w G.. Chapman)
Copyright in Great Brittany
The animal-capturing season is pret. !
ty near over, and we have had a meet. |
ing of all the white men connected |
with the expedition and decided to !
break up the camp and take our ami. !
mails 20 the coast and sail back to
Europe and to the States.
II was decided that Pa and | and
the cowboy and the negro dwarf be.
longing to tribe we have been trying
to locate should start for the coast
In the airship, and the rest of the
crowd should go with the cages, and
all round up at place on the coast
In three weeks, when we could catch
a boat for Hamburg, Germany. So
we got the airship ready and made gas
enough to last us a week. and filled
the tank that furnishes the power for
the screw wheel with gasoline. and in
q couple of days we were ready to let
her go Gallagher.
1t was a sad parting for Pa, cause
all the captured animals wanted to
shake hands with him, and some of
acted more human than seine of the
white men, and when the cages were
all hitched up and ready to move, and
the negroes had been paid off, and
given drink of rum and a zebra sand
wich, Mr.. Hagenbach embraced Pa
and Pa got up on the framework of
the ship and took hold of the gear,
and we got on and Pa told them to cut
her loose, and n little after daylight
we sailed away towards the coast, and
left the bunch we had been with so
long with moistened eyes. Pa sa-
luted the crowd and throwed a kiss
to the big ourang-outang, which had
become almost like a brother to Pa,
the driver whipped up the horses and
oxen hitched to the cages, and as the
procession ratified along to the main
road going south, Pa said "Good-by,
till we meet again." and just then the
wind changed and in spite of all Pa
could do the airship turned towards
the north and run like scared wolf
the wrong way.
The procession had got out of sight
or Pa would have pulled the string
that let's the gas escape and come
down to the ground, but he realized
that If we landed alone we would
starve to death, and be eaten by wild
animals, so he let her sail, right away
from where we wanted to go, and we
all said our prayers and prayed for
the wind to change.
Gee, but we sailed over beautiful
tpn
valleys and all kinds of animals in
sight all the time, but now we didn't
want any more animals cause VIC had
no place to keep them. But the ami
mails all seemed to want us. The lions
we passed over would roar at us, the
tigers would snarl, the hyenas would
laugh at Pa, the zebras on the plains
we passed over would race along with
us and kick up their heels like colts
in a pasture, and the cowboy stood
straddle of the bamboo frame and
just itched to throw his lasso over
fine zebra, but Pa told him to let 'em
alone, cause we didn't want to be de-
tanned.
We passed over rivers where hippo
potamuses were as thick as suckers
in a spring freshet, and they looked
at us as though they wouldn't do a
thing to the airship if we landed in
their midst.
We passed over rhinoceroses with
horns bigger than any we had ever
seen, and we passed over a herd of
more than 100 elephants, and they all
give us the laugh.
We passed over gnus. and spring
boks and deer of all kinds, and when
they heard the propeller of the air
ship rattle they would look up and
snort and run away in all directions.
Some giraffes were feeding in the tree