The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-18
(Continued from yesterday
PART II.

7OI,AN must have been In every INt sea and vet almost never or 1 VI land. He told me once, with
 J grave smile, that no man in the world lived so methodical a life as he. l "YOu know the boys say am the Iron l Mask. and you know how busy he was" He said 1t did not do for any one to try to read all the time more than to do anything else all the time, | but that he read just five hours day l Then" he said. "I keep up my note books. writing in them at such and such hours from what I have been reading. and l include In them my scrapboOks." These were very curious l indeed. He had six or eight, of differ | ent subjects. There was one of his tory, one of natural science, one which | be called odds and ends" But they were not merely books of extracts from newspapers. They had bits of plants and ribbons. shells tied on and 1 carved scraps of bone and wood, which he had taught the men to cut for him, and they were beautifully illustrated.
 Till be grew very old, he always went l alOft a grraU deal. He always kept ur bis exercise. and never heard that he was ill If any other man was i'll be ] was the kiuGcSt nurse in the world, and he knew more than half the sur geons do. Then if anybody was sick or died. or if the captain wanted him to on any other occasion. he was always l ready to read prayers. 1 have remark ed that he read beautifully.
 My own acquaintance with Philip Nolan berHu six Ur eight years after the war. on my first voyage after was appointed midShipman. It was in the first days after our slave trade treaty. while the reigning house, which was still the house of Virginia, had still sort of scntimeutaiism about the suppression Uf the horrors of the Mid de Passage. and something was some times done that way. l first came to ! understand anything about the man without country" one day when we overhaulcd dirty little schooner which had slaves on board. An officer was sent to take charge of her, and ! after a few minutes he sent back his boat to ask thut some one might be | sent him who could speak Portuguese. We were all looking over the rail when | the message came, &nd we all wished we could interpret when the captain asked who spoke Portuguese. But none of the officers did, and just as the cap tain was sending forward to ask if any of the people could. Nolan stepped out and said he should be glad to interpret if the captain wished. as he understood the language. The captain thanked him. fitted out another bout with him, and in this boat 1t was my luck to so.
 When We got there it was such scene as you seldom see and never want to. NaStiness beyond account, and chaos run loose in the midst of the nastineSs. The negroes were, most of them. out of the hold and swarming all round the dirty deck, with a central throng surrounding Vaughan and ad- dressing him in every dialect and pa tuis of diuiect. from the Zulu click up to the Parisian Of BeIedeljereed.
 l As We cauye on deck Vaughan looked down from a hogshcad on which be had mounted in desperation and said:
 'Por Gods love, is there anybody who can make these wretChes under stand something?"
 Nolan said he could speak POrtu- guese and one or two fine looking Kroomen were dragged out. who, as it had been found already. had worked for the Portuguese at Fernando Pc.
 Tell them they are free" said Vaughan, and tell them that these rascals are to be hanged as soon as we can get rope enough"
 Nolan explained 1t in such Portu- guese as the Kroomen could under stand and they in turn to such of the negroes as could understand them. Then there was such a yell of delight, clinching of fists, Ieaping and dancing, kissing of Nolan's feet and a general rush made to the hogshead by way of spontaneous worship Of Vaughan as the deus ex machina of the occasion. Tell them" said Vaughan, well pleased, that I will take them all to Cape Palmas."
 This did not answer so well. Cape Palmas was practically as far from the homes of most of them as New Or leans or Rio Janeiro was-that is, they would be eternally separated from home there. And their interpreters, as we could understand. instantly said, "Ah, non Palmas." aud began to pro pose infinite other expedients h most voluble language. Vaughan was rather disappointed at this result Ot his nberallty and asked Nolan eagerly what they said. The drops stood on poor Nolan's white forehead aS he h,,,bod Fba mon down .n6 Satd.-.