The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-09-14
QUELLED A MUT|NY
Miniature White Elephants SUBJ
dued Turbulent CingaIese.

3NoW 4OIh.-1W WI mluldLuT0 Wu1l0 er
ephants, purchased in Calcutta for a
couple of shillings by William Blake
man. a ships carpenter on board the
British freight steamship Parisiana
raised that mariner to an important
place on board the vessel on the voy-
age from the Indian port to New York.
Some of the boys on the ship and
I were walking around Calcutta one
hot afternoon in July" he said. "and
the walk took us through a street
where there r a lot of ourio dealers.
In one OF the little stores l saw two
elephants, carved out Of the wood of a
cecoanut tree, and I fancied that those
two elephants, resembling the white
elephants Of Siam, would be about as
handy a brace Of souvenirs for my
Riddles at home as anything that I
could get In Calcutta. With the two
elephants, one under each arm, we
went into the street again and on our
way to the steamer.
I'VE noticed that every time We met
a little brown Cingalese on the street
he would PROSTATE before us, or along
side Of us and salaam for all he was
worth. We laughed a bit about 1t, but
really thought little about the salaam-
ing, although it did seem a bit queer
all the way to the wharf. On the
wharf the whole blooming lot of mo-
tives fell down as we passed through
on the way to the Parisiana.
1T was about a month or so later,
when W. were going through the In
dian ocean toward the Red Sea that
some trouble broke out among the
Cingalese on board because one of our
boys had accidentally jostled a bit of
mutton that hung forward on deck for
the native ness. OF course we all
know that it is a serious thing for Eu-
ropean hands to touch the food of the
Mohammedan and we knew that 1t
would be hard to pacify the Cingalese
on board after their mutton had been
spoiled for them through contact with
the hands Of unbelievers.
There was q great hullabaloo on
the forward deck just a. I came out Of
the forepeak. and the whole pack Of
brown fellows set upon me as the
nearest and handiest man on which
to wreak their vengeance. In times
like these native chaps r not re.
sponaible, practically running amuck,
and they swung bars and clubs right
and left. I ducked back into the fore
peak. intending to get my belongings
and make a break for amidships
where I would have the protection Of
the officers. who were armed.
when I came out again, carrying
my two elephants under my arms, the
Oingalese made for me again. Then
as they saw the little white elephants
they suddenly dropped their bars and
clubs and every man of them dropped
fiat on deck and salaamed as II theil
lives depended on 1t. I was lucky
enough to remember the salaaming In
Calcutta and I flashed the elephants
which l had later found out had
caused the respect Of the city natives
during our walk through Calcutta. The
native sailors sQuirmed around anc
around OF their stomachs to make
sure that they would face me and the
elephants as they salaamed and the
rebellion on board the Parisiana wal
successfully put down without blood
she'd"
The two little white elephants re
manned in q conspicuous place In tn
main saloon on the freighter In case
Of further emergency. but their serv
Ices . not again required on thu
voyage.