The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-06-01
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Continued from last week.


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Well, he said his reading and his
notes were his profession, and that
tlltys took five hours and two hours
respectively of each day. "Then,"
said he "every man should have a dl-
version as well as a profession. My
natural history is my diversion" That
took two hours a day more. The men
used to bring him birds ard fish, but
on long cruise he had to satisfy him
self with centipedes and cOckrOaches
ana such small game. He was the only
hatulnlist:1 ever met who kheW my
thiiRg about the habits of tie. house fly
and TIE mosquito. AL those people.
can tell you. whether they, are, IebIs
dOpten or StcptOpotera but ;ds, fof
telling how you can get RID of, them,
or how they get away from you when
| you strike tkena why LinnAeus kqeY
as little of THAT as John Fey. the idiots
did. Thesel Gii1e hours Dndet N0lanSs
regular daily f'OccupationN'iTh rest
of the time. re talked or walked, cElQ
he grew very old; he went ai0ft 20. great
utuls lie ulMuSS hCpl W. liiS tNtINloa
and never heard that he was i'll. If
any other man was i'll, he was the kind
est nurse In the world; and he knew
mora than half the surgeons do. Then
if anybody was sick or died, or II the
captain wanted him to On any other
occasion, he was always ready to read
prayers. l have remarked tLat he
read beaHtifully.
My own acquaintance with Philip
NplaR hegNn six or eight years utter
the, war, on my Arst voyage after
was appointed n nidshlpn1aDl i, It wgs
In the HFst days aftef our slave trade
treaty while the reigning house,
which was still the house Of Virginia,
had still a sort of sentlmentalism
about the suppression of the horrors
Gf the middle pHssage, aGd something
Was sometimes done that way. We
HerG iii the South Atlantic on that
bHstness; Ff6m tie tir1s / jCiiieG; /
believe I thought Nolan was a sort Of
lay chaplain-a chaplain With a blue
coat. l never asked about him. Ev-
erythlng In the ship was strange to
nae. knew 1t was greer to ask Gces-
lions, and / SUPPOSE 1 thought there
wus "Plnln-Buttons" ca every ship
We had him TO dine In our mess once
d Week, and the cadtlyh was glSeE that
on that day nothing was to he said
about home. But If tLey Lad told us
not to say anything al 5ut the Planet
Mars CT the book of Deuteronomy, l
sh6uld not lave iiskea Nlitj there were
great many things Witch seefoed to
) me to have as little reason. 1 first
came to understand anything about
"the man without n country" one day
= when we Overhauled a dirty little
schooner which had slaves on board.
: An officer was sent to take charge of
her, aad after q few minutes he sent
, bnek his boat 80 ask that someone
might be sent him who could speak
Portuguese. We wete all looking over
the rail when the message came, and
we MI wished we could interpret, when
the captain asked who spoke POr-
tughesp. But none of the officers did
. and just as the cHptain was sending
forward To ask II any of the people
could, Nolan stepped out and said he
should be glad to interpret, if the cap
tain wished, as he understood the Ian.
guage. The captain thanked him, 1T
ted out another boat With him, and In
this boat it was my luck to go.
When we got there, it was such a
scene as you seldom see, and never
want to. Nastiness beyond account,
and chaos run loose in the midst Of the
nastiness. There were not a great
many of the negroes; but by way
A Of making what there We're understand
/. that they were free, Vaughan had had
o their handouts and anlllecuffs Knocked
b off, and, for convenience sake, was
. putting them upon the rascals of the
. schOoner's crew. The negroes were,
most Of them, out of the hold, and
swarming all round the dirty deck,
with n central throng surrounding
Vaughan and addressing him In every
| dialect and patOls Of dialect, from
the Zulu click up to the Partisan oi