Evening star., 1937-01-24

great seal of the Ethiopian Empire on
document. Mr.. Skinner added his
signature for the United States.
Our Minister presented a bronze
bust of Washington and in turn our
party was decorated. the Star of
Ethiopia for the Minister and officers,
a medal for the enlisted men.
Passing from the royal presence we
Immediately mounted and began the
return march, overtaking the caravan
that evening.
The lions had already made trou-
BILE. The camels had objected to their
roaring and odor and had bucked them
Off OF course, such violent landings
had smashed the cages and set the
lions free. They had been recaptured
by the two attendants the Emperor
had sent to care for the beasts as far
as the coast. The antipathy between
lions and camels continued for several
days and our evenings were kept oc-
cupied rebuilding cages. But as some
sort of peace seemed to have been
patched up between the beasts we for
got the lions for a day. Then it ap-
peared. that one king Of the jungle
was far too tame The motion Of the
camel had caused sea sickness. The
professional services of our faithful
hosital steward Fearnley were called
into action. This was too much Tor
even a sick lion; being dosed was vlo-
lently resisted. Several men were
wounded by slashing claws in the
course of our ministering efforts. But,
thanks to the natural intelligence OF
these animals, one treatment was
enough to convince them of its efficacy
and subsequent medicinal applications
wApe unresisted. Human aid came to
On of the lions too late. The camp
ks saddened by his death and he was
reverently buried in the desert SANDS.
The other eventually reached Presi-
dent Roosevelt and found a home In
the Rock Creek Zoo.
In due season our expedition reached
the coast and was disbanded, the
Marines going to the Far East by way
of India and Singapore.
AS FOR other kings, have pleas
ant recollections of them in every
cline. I visited the sick with Olga
of Greece; philosophical with can
nibal sovereign; bartered with the
King of the Danakils; sought out
Sheba's reigning descendant; heard
the Kaiser joke, and made Liliokalani
weep.
There was the time was hauled
off the ball room floor at Prince
Henry's at Kiel for humping into the
Crown Prince when I danced the two
step. I recall how once entered the
great hall at Buckingham Palace,
after being presented to Edward VII,
and saw there assembled all of Brit
aims great. Again, dotted my nat
with an elaborate flourish as the royal
euuipage and four passed my tram in
Lisbon and the lovely Amelia gracious
ly bowed her acknowledgment. (We
both, by our different means of trans
port, were bound for the bull f1ghtso
Indeed, I circumnavigated this ter
restrial globe twice during my first
six years service and fought in both
the West and East Indies; raised the
first American flag at Havana; de-
Tended an American consul in Asia
Minor; fortified Culebra Island; start
ed the first American school in the
Philippines; exploded one of the first
submarine mines; incurred the anger
of the Governor of Hongkong for
too much activity anent military
secrets of Fort Kalhoon; penetrated
the heart of Africa, and tried to break
the bank at Monte Carlo.
And so for five periods of five years
each I could retail paragraphs of
adventure-sailing the seven seas and
exploring their many shores. Having
studied law, prosecuted and defended
murderers in both hemispheres;
helped put down a revolution in
Cuba; defied Pele; raved about the
poetical Kapiolani, and danced with
Princess Kawananakoa. I learned
some Of the South Sea languages and
bartered and traded in China and
Japan, thereby discovering that not
all Japanese are bad nor all Chinese
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