Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-31

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island of Teneriffe that first met Richard Black
- American with penchant for investigating the doc
tne of chances, who had wandered into that far away
part of the globe in fit of curiosity and had remained
to crafty the passion of himself and select of
assorted European visitors for the gaming table.
Tenerfe is celebrated health resort, not only for
the weather. class of Europeans but also for the few
white persons who are engaged in missionary and COM
mercial work among the natives of West Africa. The
climate OF the West Coast possesses most voracious
appetite for Caucasian health and poor aborer
in that field has succumbed to the dread maara fevers
and lain down and died, else been forced to flee
other parts in search of renewed vitality. 1t
of hustle for your life else be used fertilizer for
palm tree, and most of who could, hustled. Expert
had demonstrated to that sen,annual So
journ of few weeks in the delightfully."- salubrous eli
mate of the Canares would renovate ones dilap-
dated health and ns enough zngberous virility into
fatgued and malaria soaked body to enable to do
a vast amount of work which otherwise would have
been impossible.
So it happened that was zngiberating in Teneriffe
when met Black. Notwithstanding his unobtrusive
attire and cultivated gentlemany manners my
nolent newspapermans instinct instantly spotted him
for what he Hardly had we been in touch two
minutes before that which nstnctively leads
to recognize an American prompted him to address
"'Merican, amt you,' asked he in the vernacular
Yep" answered.
What part?"
western"
"Me too; my homes in Chicago. 1 came over to
Europe for little flyer and heard about this place and
came down to look it over. It's nice place, and
found these Europeans who down here for their
health to be pretty lively people So staying
awhile to entertain them and am making my expenses
and little pocket money the SIDE They think I'm
curiosity and think their coin feels pretty good my
pocket
"Pasteboards or whee?"
"Just quiet game of bridge or poker occasionally
They not we'll acquainted with national game,
and don't understand their English and French games
very we'll yet But I'm learning and I've got
kick coming. What's your graft?"
I'm doing little missionary work.
"A missionary! You! Well, gee whillakers! Aw-w,
quit your joshing!"
That's the gospel truth my friend. I'm what they
call missionary doctor"
"Oh The other fellows convert the
heather and you pass EN- to the golden shore be-
fore they get a chance to backsde
Somebody told you" and politely convused my
self with laughter for the steenhundredh time at the
widowed castanean quip, which had become much
of drug to that much and abused good old
hymn, From Greenands Icy Mountains"
whereabouts around here do you do your work."
down at Cape Mount; about three days east of
here by the steamers
Anywhere near place called Bendoo?"
lust about twenty miles from it. You have to 60
through Cape Mount to get to it. Bendoo is inland
town Lake Pesou"
That's good. l may drop down and see you some
day when the closes here. Friend of mine in
Boston has been doing trading down there with
fellow named Cole-King Cole think they called him
and he wants to settle
up the business and pay Cole
what's coming to him. The
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Captain is sick and can't
over himself. Was going
to send an agent over; but
when he heard was going to A
Teneriffe he sent bunch
of letters of introduction to
his friends there, here and