The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-24


 sN Lost and WaterIess
 And while the hot wind was
 sweeping the plains of the desert
 he could do nothing but wait. Slow
 ly but surely the sand was covering his body. There was no escape out of it-only to wait. When the storm was over, he found he had drunk all of his water And what was worse, he was lost.
 He struggled for three days, crawling on his knees, many times a victim of mirage, which so often likes to play dirty joke on the traveller in those parts of the globe. A stray patrol of the French Foreign Legion on camel back followed his trail and found him almost dying from the heat and thirst. They took him to a native village on the border of Sy- ria and Iraq. Then another four teen days of journeying, during which time he spoke to a white man only once. Then he came to Bagdad
 Audience With King
 There he obtained the audience with King Faissal of Iraq, the king who so romantically appeared insthe book written by T. E. Law renee, Revolt in the Desert" The autograph given to him by King Faissal is supposed to be the first end only autograph given by him to any white man.
 Riding the trains of the Eastern railroad as a guard, he saved some money. After visiting the ruins of Babylon, walking be- tween the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where the garden of Eden supposedly was located, he came to the Persian Gulf.
 The temperature was 146 degrees above zero, in the shade T think the man who measured the tenn perature was about the only one who knew about any shade"
 Witncages Tribal Warfare
 In Arabia, he saw the war among the native tribes for possession of water holes. Whole tribes, supposed ly had been wiped out or died of thirst. It was the same to them, to be killed fighting or to die slowly of thirst"
 In Southern Persia he found the Mohammedans of the Shiah who refused to sell him food They can't touch anything that has been touched by anybody not a member of their sect. When they did give him some food, they took stones and broke the dishes and stone. pitchers. On top of this he was attacked by bandits and robbed O. all of his possessions.
 ti Visits in India
 In India most of his time was spent in the remote sections of tho country, studying the life of the natives, which really is touched very little by the civilization of the white man. There, too, he was bit ten by poisonous snake, and only the quick help of the native medi- cine man saved his life. sE1n the South Seas he escaped a terrific typhoon; he tramped the jnngles of Ihdo-China; he visited the mysterious ruins of Anghkhor, Wat. the city built by the Angels, as the natives call it. After hay ing had a glance at the Chinese revolution, where he saw hundreds of persons being massacred in the streets. he called it a day, and sailed for the Philippines, Japan, Islands, Mexico and the United States. He visited 38 states before coming to Alaska.
 Meets Prominent People
 In his travels he obtained many of prominent people. President Hoover, Colonel Lind bergh, Admiral Byrd, Capt. Sir Hu- bert Wilkins, Thomas A. Edison, Jack Dempsey, former President of Portes Gil, pr. Wong, Min ister of Foreign Affairs of China, King Faissal of Bagdad, Prince Nicolae of Rumania, and thou sands of others have signed his bookse
 He always wanted to see Alas ka; now he is here. He intends to spend the winter in the Arctic, to get some touch of cold, and com pare it to the 146 degrees above zero he has experienced.
 He is making his way by lectur- ing, writing articles for the news papers and doing his best to com plete this trip which will take him some 100000 miles, before he'll re- turn home, to write a book. He intends to arrange some lecture in Juneau before leaving for the North.