Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-09-11

home were full of confidence. Cross
ing that island without any more adj
venture than would befall man cross
ing the state of New York on foot they
took ship for German South Africa.
And then their real dangers began.
In fact, it was all off as far as Miss
Fortune was concerned. Time and
again she wrote to the four begging
them to come home, after she had
heard what was happening, oftentimes
months afterward, but it was no use.
Their minds were made up.
The four had to fight their way
through wilderness teeming with
savage tribes, even cannibals; KAT
frs and Sassacunis attacked them
over and over again. Hunger and
thirst were ever present, but on and
on and on they tramped through jun
gle and morass, hoping, ever hoping,
and journeying always to the north
Is Paying the Penalty.
To-day, because of his experiences,
young Greenlee is not the enthusiast
he used to be. In fact, his sufferings
have made him all but physical
wreck. And when one listens to his
tale, it is hard to realize how he could
have done all this and come out of it
alive.
I'VE went on north" said young
Greenlee, while he was in New York,
from German South Africa up
through the Congo Free State and
through British East Africa to Alden.
A short time before we left Alden,
Jones and Ryan went ahead bit, and
it was a few days before we came up
with them-they were in a fight with
a band of tribesmen. Neither had
guns because of their religious scru-
pies. We were too late.
The moment we came up we start
ed firing on our common foes, but the
assegais of the natives killed both
| poor Jones and poor Ryan before we
got the range with our rifles. Then we
had to fight to save ourselves. When
at last the tribesmen fled-no match
for our long range rif1es-we counted
| So dead bodies. We had to burn the
| bodies of our friends to keep the saw
ages from eating them after we were
gone.
After that it was pretty gloomy,
you can bet When we got to the
! coast at last-we took boat to the
Canary islands and thence to Queens
town, Ireland. We walked about 800
miles around Ireland, then went to
Scotland and England In London 1
called at the war Office and showed
my badges and my Victoria Cross,
| which l won when a bugler boy in the
| Boer war. 1 knew Butler and French
| and Kitchener, and the king gave me
| this ring
Not Attracted by Kaiser
Young Greenlee showed Masonic
r-Sr OH 0cyT h hr- -
diamonds and precious stones given
him by various personages all over
the world.
I'VE went to Germany after that
and met the kaiser he continued. 81
don't care much for him, he is so sar-
| castle looking and conceited. We
might have been monkeys the way he
looked at us. But liked the empress
She gave me a beautiful diamond
| brooch which has since been stolen
TT would take six months at least
20 tell all the places we visited, and
| it's hard to know which to leave in
and which to leave out. Most of it
was just a case of walking, day after
day. In short, we visited every coun.
try in the world with the exception OF
TMbet, the Forbidden Land We had
plenty of good fights, but we carried
good rifles and revolvers, and always
came out best The Chinese emperor
now dead, gave us a letter which was
an open sesame everywhere in his
kingdom. But in China, where we
spent 31s months, we got into two
serious rows with the Boxers We
/ crossed over to Vancouver and went
down to Mexico and came back through
Central America On leaving Califor
mia we got lost and were for four days
without food. and three without water
That about finished both of us, but
McCluskey was the worse on. He con
tracted fever, and 1 just managed tc
get him to Lordsburg. where he died