Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1922, Page 36

World’s Ash Heap mer a rotund little gentleman with the present owners father In very long thumbnails (the insignia!blood. I wouldn't put it beyond * of the brainworker), which he clicked | to do the same to this one if it wasnt together with gusto when excited or |that he's a smart lad and carries 11 amused; the latter a tall, handsome 'only firearms on the island ’ Youth and something of un exquisite| “No ohe's come here sinee, no one it one may judge by biscuit-colored” that T'd trust. * * * Then, ton, what % | silk socks and an esthetic tie. i 1 found the stul> What good, . jof him sizzling in a frying pan. Each day thaf we sailed gfter leav- ing . Balboa had brought%ui e ably. -nearer the eédhator, shd presence began to make itself felt in gasping moments at the tiller, a glare | € HEN the pirates of the West ! from the water that caused blood- reasurer in Islands Called Y RALPH STOC Editor's Note:. Thin in the Arat of n | serien If three articlen, cach recomnt- Ing & lex of the famous“Crulne of the | Uream Ship.” i : {:l&pfng in the Pacific for the Elusive Galapagos on the Equator, in a Forty-seven Foot Sloop With a Crew of Three—A Narrow Escape From Doom—The Ancient Who Had Spoken English But Once in Fifty Years—Hidden Ingots and Pieces of Eight, and Hidden Deeds—Solid Wall of 3 South Americah « €0ast | ghot eves until Peter the practical g 4 mur,::»...-\l‘ for |||»l'\‘|;‘)“.‘ ;v e | produced a_ pair of lrr:oked_glls,as: €. A v s It was a cheerful occasion, followed | would it do me—now?" Ile spread as they Vo 5 and deck seams running and -bubblin; Fict " Fnvelons C > 2 Tare s - W T ey e by the best coffee I have ever tasted ately ' e i i e ihes nidxthe et T 2 o e £ “Mist Envélops ‘Craft, Only to Give Way, Revealing Black Wall of Rock Not Fifty Yards Dis- 310 o et 2 uitar atcompaniment.| scommentepcatels shuned hands in « ) e esture. “I should die i Out in the compound, under the stars, the peons also indulged in a New Year flesta; 8o that by midnight the place was a blur of tobacco smoke, oil flares, thrumming guitars; gy-| rating, brightly hued ponchos, with: ‘l month if T left here, Finest on earth, this is. * * * gyuq, | he laughed—a low, remmx.ucnm.flm- of mirth. “But that wasn't all that decide: me. I'd got to the planking, Guava at their headquarters in the Gala- | p o’ Coton was a snectaclé not' to e siives ana wula; voate S SO SSEE FEES RN o O,IX«' tanta—hj:.iklng Headway Against Strong Currents. Youds of it. Treasure. unfoubtediy. 8| o sono smokea glasses andh para- [E (i, : T o { still lying hidden there. Two caches | sol! T have often wondered what sort have heen unvarthed, silver InotS|,fentertainment we should have pro- |, - and pleces of cight. respectively. | videq for a passing steamer on occa- X he finder of ome built himself 8 igjon but as we never sighted one | Btk owiiers somewhbrs tnslds them: | Len ook rh s : handsome hotel in Ecuador. and the | from the beginning to the end of our| , G ; s e ulonc s van d"~ I wa;s steam!ing Every one seemed thoroughly happy | R rey, =0l £he ARy caught me in the chest, knocking r « six vards, and broke b, 1ra rs? That is N | broken yet, I guess: there was 1o o r:‘l“';.l“; D‘“‘:f and' who shall say it ;o mend it. Well, that finished if. | A starlit ride to the beach, a tew| " pie ioeeny o RElA s iy strokes of the oars that carve deep| SPPOL (RbrucLy, And down at his battered rawhide shac caverns of phosphorescent light in ! opy G i ? the inky waters, and we are fl‘fl‘"! pe il “‘S-"‘-‘:‘:““t aboard. And herein lies ome of the| .ov o What about it?" T suggested manifold joys of one's own ship. One| Hc 10oked up at that. | may travel at will over the highway ~1ve been thinking about it cv.r | of the earth, carrying his home ana ! 5iNc® You came here,” he confessed his banal but treasured belongings! L' B0 With you; but mind this, yo. other drank himself to death in short | cryise I fear T shall never know. order. But there is definite proof “Tomor-ow.” said Steve, after twelve that there is more. | days of fair though light wind: As a field for the treasure hunter it ought to ratze “Tower 'Talapd™ 1s doubtful if any placesin the world |, We wére'approaching the ash heap ances of success today | of the world. At the tfme we had no that these islands, but—and.there is ' nption that.it was an ash heap, but| always a “but’—the pncertaingy of | you shall judge. Throughout that ‘1 S nd und current amomg them makes [night we took our appointed four- {t impossible for a sailing ship to un- | hour single-handed wateh, ‘slept our dertake the search. a motor auxillary four hours as we had come mechani- i too unreliable, and a small steamer cally so to do during the past fouw o arge for the creeks and reef | months, and went on'deck at dawn to and contented. And, after all, what else matters? That is the Ecuadorean stared offers better i to e O il he mecessary to | See Tower Island. 1 ; ',‘.“g’il"l"‘w tron lighsenger 21 It was not there. i with him. Like the hermit crab, he MUSTL curse me if nothing comes o : A divine apparatus, and a | Stever, who was at the tiller. loked may emerge where and when he will.' - O e ) taunch and.d A n | vaEuely troubled. but offered no ol e take = glimpse at life thereabouts| &Y is I think I know where the ] :’-”.N”, \h,,m‘ .’_’,‘,,,J".um'“., ind money | ment. Neither did we, by this time | |and return to the comfort of ac- f some one hasn’t got it.” s :I‘: ‘be dteams 7 ing used to such things. 'Besides | customed surroundings—a pipe-rack 11 let you know tomerrow.” said 'u:. :.; 4:;‘.‘, nliess’ wonldowan—| eave & man to his job,y had be- ready to hand, a favorite ook or pic- 1+ ;m' 1";" him sitting there. reac PEaneE. 5 “ip | vome our watchword through muny ture placed just so. as the man senile? There ws Aorer; dreams, nevertheless. that will | GO0 O W R night followed i k% % nothing 1o wuaike one think so. assarcdly one duy be realized. - ilaay with customary inexorableness. HELTERED by a coral reef that ®#1iar? There was cqually nothisz No one thinks of the GalAPRENT ,p4 without producing anything more ‘broke the force of the Pacific roil- [0 Prove it. At least half his stor I 'ers, and with holding ground of firm | W&8 & Matter of island history 4 white sand, we made up arrears of' 2% % | sleep that night and scattered after breakfast to explors the beach, Mechanically gravitating toward y,.; evening. We discussed it fron foate bamboe e eame | every angle. and came to the concl {upon him seated.on a log, StarinE| ., that, with the present atrocits | meditatively at the crumbling skele-| ;19 o motor auxiliary and the i ton of what had been, or Was at ON€| yearher conditions of the group, W' | time going to be, & ship. . | mignt take three days over the bur “Why didn't you finish her? 1|, ., ;n4 we might take three month= jsiiphioh Iito s tewt oar | that the chances of finding somethia. He stared at me in a daze, then! % 10 CR0mrer O o ot 108 Telands, * Situated-a bare six hundred {0y inan the same empty expanse miles from the American goast lne fp. o0y “Steve was constralned to n the direct trade route between the L .o\ 5 sure premilinary to co- South Pacific Tslands and the United ) oo pooon 5 & States, this group is seldom visited'| "L . of three things has happened,”’ mere than twice a year. and then fOT |, g5y 0unced:"The chronometer's got the most part by Ecuadorian seh0on- | ypo jim_jams, the chart's wrong or | ers. The veriest atoll ‘in the South |1, p)inking island has foundered.” ! ra receives more attention. and | s gifpper of the Dream Ship. it de- with not a tithe of the tause. - The | (;lveq upor ‘myself”to, verity these cause? Well, come with us to the | gurprising statemfents, which, after a hacienda of the owner of Cristobal, & . L | ¢ E of the Dream Ship held a board meeting on the subject of loot 1 and you shall see. i v ox o o { | burst forth in Spanish, yntil 1 suc- o » Tn.\xsn: RRING one's activities | i e el B ;:ielfl,'g,:u;:.‘lh:?.‘r:‘I::" m pu . i ; of cisionary, anywas from the heaving deck of our} . might as well talk double Dutch. i on wdream ship® to the equally heaving ? “Of course—of course,” he mutter- | p Co o Cen g 1o one ed. “I forgot—Lord, how 1 forget:| A7 TRE FOm b 0 e whose » back of a mountain peny. Yoy:lope for an hour up a winding, bowlder- wn track through a wilderness of | Jow scrub and valeanie rock. Sur- mounting @ ridge. the last of a half to breathe vour | IU's queer to me that I can speak English at all after all these vear: but I can. That's something, isn't 1 “Sure thing.” I velled: “keep it up.| | Tell me why you didn't finish your the deciding voice. 1 give this interview with dad 10 what it is worth, and simply I 1 see no prospect of undertaking search as it should be undertake dozen, you rein in 1 pony and incidentaily to marvel. You | {only to encounter the scle owner, still | ship.” |am aware that it reads like th: remind vourself that vou are pre-| guarding his ill-gotten gains though| He pondered the matter; thenspoke | | o \mance, but it is true U on the euator: |reduced to nakedness and hair. At = |slowly: every particular, as any one will so0: chilly up there distance dud had seen him first, and| T told you of the other L built— | gioivor on visiting Wreck b from here you have a chance to pause !mistaking him for a mountain goat.|and why. Well, I ran her on & reef| ..o io1 idland, in the Galapages Lad shot him through the heart. It| —splinters in five minutes. Took the| ..., ’ with us for @ hird's-eve perspective over the long route we have come— hack over the watery trail from Eng- tand, from which we three. “Peter.” my sister; “Stev d T had sailed | across the Atlantic in our tough lit- tle twenty-three ton cutter, and alse back more immediately over our devious wake to Balboa at the Pacific | heart out of me for a bit, that did. “Then I began to think of that loot again. I do still, for that matter; can't help it. Tou see, I think I know | where it is, So I started on this! one.” He modded toward the hulk,| ften during the days that followed silhouetted against the crimsoning 1 found myself standing at the Dresy sk | Ship's rail looking seaward 1o & ¢ “I'd got tothe planking when it oc- | outline of mduntains agaiust the b {was the first man he had killed, and | on he could not stay on the island after | that—especially at night. Afterward, 1 asked the owner of | | Cristobal if one might believe half. old man said, and he nodded| The old man still waits there the beach for a ship and some oOne he can trust; but, judging by ni frail appearance (he is ents - seven), he will not wait much longe! b the is much, alxo. that he does he added with a smile. 1 end of the Panama canal. Tt was|; . there that this particular adventure . “PIRATES HID THE LOOT AT THEIR HEADQUARTERS IN THE * % x x curred to me¢ I'd want a partner for |and wondering. ® ® * But onlr t! Madlantaa GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, SILVER AND GOLD—BOATLOADS OF IT.” ROM the summit of the ridge | the Job. at my‘age; and who could I|ash heap knows. B ) i (Copyrights trust? They'd slit your throat for ten Balboa is in the Canal Zone. which f& United States territory, though cutting clean through the republic of Panama. and in this particular sam- ple of United States territory, though | founded upon a swamp. You will en- | counter—among other such amazing | things as an entire absence of mos- | quitoes, charming residences set in | park-like surroundings. and a well . conducted club, free to all—an assort- | O ment of ice cream creations war- | ranted to hypnotize the uninitiated. 1 havé to mention this detail because | our lives at Balboa appeared to con-| sist in rowing ashore to transact im- portant business in Panama and be- | \7Z respective observations and subsze- superhuman struggle, 1 did. By .our | There is no other way of describing! “I see Dalrymple rock.” he chanted | our antics than to say that we clawed ! uent calculations the ship’s position jour way along that rocky wall until proved identical. According to instru- {at the end of it a faint air caught, the id en route and held captive ments we were at that moment plumb {3ib, the foresail, the mainsail, and we lin_our own ship: that what naviga- tion we knew had been learned in three weeks; and that 1 would invite any one who fancies shis bump of lo- cality to test it in the Galapagos | istands. We had more than half decided to cut out Crigtobal and its 500 inhabi- | tants, and shape a course for the So- clety Islands, 3,000 miles to the south- west'ard, when Steve gave a yell like a wounded pup. as one in a trance, with the binocular to his ey “I see Wreck point, and a bay between ‘em with houses on the beach. What more do You want?" a dazed expression on his face and his head at an angle after the fashion of the deaf. When he spoke, which Ihe presently did with an unexpect- cdness that was startling, it was in a low, cultured voice and in English! Dad was a type, if ever there was one, of the educated ne'er-do-well hidden away in the farthest corner of Wwhefe we stopped on-our way. to the hacienda in imagination 1o re-| trace our steps we gazed out upon | a green, gently undulating country, | dotted with grazing cattle and horses, ; patches of sugar-cane, coffee bushes, and lime trees, stretching away to a cloud-capped range of mountains. Looking down on this fertile valley {it is hard to realize that one is stand- dbllars in those days.. They murdered ———e . O the editor: As most yeople‘ probably realizes we are which is called the vuletide, (Cor LARDNER ON QUAINT CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS Mistletoe Calls for Slap or Punch on Jaw in Warsaw, Ind.—They Hang Up Ashcans, Not Stockings, in Portugal. ued in mext Sui day is set aside for the grown ups to take a again at the xmas holidays | kiddies prize most highly and hid. them so as they can play with ther all the toys that the ing waylai by insidious messes. _|in the middle of Tower Island. It|stoed #~uy without so much as a| How extremely simple it wasito! scason in some parts of Maine und, themselfs after the kiddies has wen: Resides. 1t was over a Something gaq thoughtless of it to have evap-jscratck recognize each feature by the chart— | Georgla but any way it occurred toito bed nights. Children that liljes ecundae that T met the man who cam rated at the very moment when we| Sunrise’ that morning was the|when there wasan unmi takable land- me that maybe some of my readers|to play with toys has to buy them’ o \ery near to shaping our destin¥.|g, gorely needed it as a landmark., weirdest I have ever seen. There are | mark to go by. What foolv we had | and a speclally my child admirers|steal them from Jan. 1 on through : ould like to learn something in re-|the ¥r. only to have them stole at True. there were pearling islands t0 yre gaid so in strong terms. We were | over two.thousand volcano cones in \he castward, he inforraed me: he had | ¢yl saying something of the sort |the Galapagos Islands, and apparently fighed there himself in the past With gpen o small, high-pitched voice |We were in the midst of them. On all vaeying success, and would like noth-| come o ajort: Ihands and at all distances were rug- ing better than to try again aboard .papg or !ged peaks one hundred to two thou- the dream ship. He would make €n-| pater in striped white-and-green [5and feet high, rising sheer from a quiries. . | pajamas, was astride the jaws of the [rose-pink sea into a crimson sky. The fruits of these were imparted | gaff. Steve and I exchanged glances, | Slegk-headed seals broke water the next day over a peach somethiDE | ang with a lashed tiller, we al! went | alongside, peered at us for a space else. The group had been done 10| pejow for a “swizzle,” the now |n_Iw£!h .their fawn-like eyes, barked death, and was “closed” for a term|yitable accompaniment to a landfall. [softly, and were gone. Pelicans of three years, but—this over an|iwe had reached the Galapagos -1s- |Soared above our track, and fel) Hke orange orang outang—if we cared to ! jangs, a stone on their prey. Tiny birds, 3 | vellow and red. flitted about the deck been to—— But we left further re- criminations till a later date. At the present moment it wax necessary to enter Wreck hay through a channel 300 vards wide, without a mark on either side in the teeth of a snorting “trade.” and with a lee tide. * ¥ ok ¥ xmas by the parent * % ¥ % HE difference between gards to how xmas Is cclebrated in other parts of the world as the cus- toms differs in different climbs and localtys the same as the manner of| Gt Aniic ereions ia imaturil celebrating other holidays. e S Lfivas Orvthie: st Siataeniee Like for inst. the way we celebrate | gions would like nothing better thar the 4 of July in this country iS en-lhave there presents delivered in tirely different from how they do it|normay way by Santa Cluuse and by in Central Asia wile Columbus Day [his bevy of reindeers but unluckly is allowed to pass almost without no | that gentleman and his vehicle are celebration In certain parts of Ice-|busy makeing deliverys down our land. way at the time. So the northernery Probably the country where the " |xmas customs differs most widely hiere A \ T one time during the series of sliort tacks that were necessary to get a “slant” for the anchorage we were not more than fifty yards from the giant emerald-green rollers | * gur attention from pearl shell to gold,, <o a little farther afield, and divert! e | HE southeast “trade” was blowing he knew of a spot not far south ‘where the natives were in the habit of \Washing the stuff out of clods of |how, and there was nothifg between | in carth from their backyards, held us and Cristobal, the only inhabited | shape: \inder the eaves of the houses during !island of the group: consequently, II a rain storm. What about it? The | slept the sleep of a mind at peace answer at the moment, and as far as | until awakened by a well 1 can remember, was a s!rnw'herrylvrffsure on the arm. siush. “Come and take a But we had decided to go. rations for making the wherewithal we so sorely needed were already afoot when a miracle intervened. On known 100K’ at’ this." | Prepa- 1 | Peter in the opposite bunk. “This” proved to be & solid wall of | mist towering over the ship like a precipice. The trade wind had fallen was or flew the through the skylights, settled on the cabin fittings with the as steadily as a “trade” knows |utmost unconcern. crystal-clear . hovergd constantly: dolphin, turtle aud ghastly devil fish. LL life seeméd confined to water and air; never was dry land o gage. | whisperea Steve, so as not to wake{desolate and sinister as those myriads and And down under, depths, vague sharks, * ok ok ¥ breaking on Lido point to port with the roar of thunder. To starboard one could see the fangs of the coral reef walting for us to miss stays to rip the bottom out of us. But the Dream Ship did not miss stays, and | finally we shot through the channel into Wreck bay and anchored fin three fathoms off a rickety landing | | | | While the agony of removing a lot volcanic comes. Yet one of them|ihree-weeks' beard was in progress peopled with human belngs. s crowd had assembled on the heach. Which? We were lost, it ever a shi| was lost, i p n the labyrinths of an ash and presently a boatload of three put oft to us. Steve, with his smattering from those in our continent is Sar- dinfa. In this little land the chief in- dustry is the raising of sardines for hire and the country is ran on such a carefull basis that the natives ix only allowed one day in which to eat sardines themselfs instead of ship- | ping them in crowded cans to foreign markets. The result of this custom is that ' the natives eat thousands and thou- «ands of the little bivalves and not | being use to them, why pretty near erybody gets a sardine jag and the {day genally always winds up in a succeeding one afternoon in getting clean past temptation and into the city of Panama, I found a letter awaiting me from a certain magiclan who dwells In a place called New York. To hide the truth no longer, ke had sold a story of mine to the * “movies” at a figure that to our | treo for all fight with sardines as the missiles. In this country of course sardines always forms a dain- !ty part of the xmas dinner but the | people haveing been eating them all |the yr. around, why they are not |affected and the day winds vp as | quietly as it begun. * * X ¥ BOUT the only marked difference between our xmas and xmas in Upper Silesia is in regards to stock- !ings. In this country we take them |off and hang them up wile in Upper ! Stleasta they just take them off and isend them to the Chinese laundry | which stays open all day. In Bay Minette, Alabama, they have what they call xmas trees but instead of being llke our xmas trees which we bring In the house they tle there presents way up high in the tallest trees outdoors and make the children climb the trees to get them. A great many kiddies has fell out of the trees and been hurt as a result of this custom and there is now talk of either abolishing it entirely or confineing it to squirrels and kiddies that has took a course in climbing high trees. In Portugal the difference is again in regards to stockings the same as in Upper Sllesia only that in the former country the boys hangs up 'ash cans instead of stockings as they don’t expect to get nothing worth ‘while. y But the place where our customs differs the most than in other lands is Lower Russia. In that vicinity the xmas spirit seems to be just the opp. like for inst. where as here in America we try to make our children happy by ‘giveing them toys, games eandy, why in Lower Russia the heap. : All we knew was that Cristobal was the easternmost, of the group. We sailed east, only to he becalmed in- side of an hour and. to lose by cur- gray wall lay fair in our path. - rent what we had gained by wind. sun .,:.m not to*:be land* ‘said|Close to this same groun a sailing ) . * | Steve, “but I don’t Itke the'look, of 1t.” | vesset has been kndwn to have her dtncxed Eesc. looked Jite e im-| Neither @id I We stdod side by side, | insurante pald -before she reached demnity, and jnside g |straining our eves into the murk. A}port. The calms run in belts of vary- amount, in beautiful, "’“: ;h““:’f' | soft barking, for all the world like]ing widths, and uhless a ship can be dollar gold pieces, littered the cabin i ¢pa¢ of a very old dog, Bounded some- | towad or kédged to one- side or the table of the dream ship. 3 where to port. Splashes; as of giant{ other; there is nothing to prevent her 1 am aware that in most accounts pggies .striking the water,” accom- |remaining in' the same spot for -si of travel such sordid details a5 the |panied by flashes of phosphorescent|months, Our water would mot last| linancial difficulties encountered are ligne, came at intervals from all sides, | that time, and there 1o mone on soy invariably omitted, either Dbecause gnq presently the faint lap of water|of the lslands ‘except Crl:t b: (;“ == there were nonme, or because the|reached our ears. i T ekt S - writer considers it in the light of bad | “Mother of Mike!" breathed Steve. :f k“ ma four ulodco.m fued ito form to mention them. In our par-|“We're alongside something.” :ux:x ‘w:,_'he,"“ '.'.'l::de : ’:,,,“;m ule. ticular case they certainly existed,| At that moment, and as though im-|, miracle, and we were bewue .i b and personally I am not very strong |pelled by somesilent mechanismi, the | ay ' seven-knqt clip. What & relles on form. After all, money is a means | pall of mist lifted, révealing an-Inky, was the biessed mation of Sir. Vo {0 an end—even to the realization of |black’ wall of rock not fitey yards dis- | poo 1% B 0 PY B in 4 dream, and I can only say that ours | tant. R athe t should to a stark calm, and the Dream Ship lay wailowing on an oily swell. A young moon rode clear overhead; and myriads of monstrous stars glared down at us: yet still this ominous of Spanish, received them at the com- panion with a new-born elegance that matched their own. They proved to be the owner of the island, a good- looking youth of about twenty-five; the chief of police (presumably “chief.,” because there is only one representative of the law in the Gala- pago), a swarthy Ecuadorean in a becoming poncho; and a little, wrin- “THE GROWN-UPS TAKE A¥3) ALL THE TOYS AND PLAY WITH; THEM THEMSELVES has to depend on bicycles and wo- carts which is libel to have Wa sledding in that climate. Speaking about reindeers the situ- ation here on Long Island fisven worst than up there in the far merth on acct. of the fact that neither Long Isiand Sound or the ocean or .the East River is very seldom froze over at this time of yT. ®o that Santa hax only 3 ways of getting here, namely to come on a train through the tube which is vs. the rules of the railrogy! company, or (2) cross on the ferry which genally always makes the deers sea sick, or (3) try to make the @eers hurdle which ever body of water they choose to try and many is the time In this case that the deers has failed to make the jump and been drowned. B This is the reason why my kiddies for example very seldom gets a square deal at xmas simply because we can’t get stuff delivered. That Is about all as 1 know in re- gards fo different Xmas customs ex- cept in regards to the custom of hanging mistietoe on the chandelier dureing the yuletide scason. RING W. LARDNER. ¢ Great Neck, Long Isiand, Dee. 20. “WA”TCBING THE DREAM SHIP DRIFT TOWARD DOOM, WE CLAWED OUR WAY ALONG THAT ROCKY would have evaporated into thin alr| My frenzied efforts at tHe flyiwheel | idal - | WALL! - at Batbon but for the miracle per- |of the motor auxiliary were fuflle. as[, 1 Nelf;@nd we made what we took | _— LT T e S o Zormed by the magiclan in New York. |1 had more than half expeéted.” Who { 1oy er, Cristobsl The dinghy was!yjeq 51 man with a finely chiseled |the earth to avoid those things which |ing on the lip of a long-extinct crater; -xx ; has ever heard of these RFOCItien an- | ovy ey one oty it P {OF POFL: | face and dellcate hands. |most of us deem so desirable. He|that in reality Cristobal is a serles of ¢ the strength of our sudden af- BWeFING in an ewiergents? We fad'no :‘:! "’: ';.:3:;‘_ 01;11:'5'“" the possibili- | "he owner of Cristobal informed us|had @ split-bamboo house on the|these, dour and uninviting to a de- fuence, the dreant ship received S¥eeps. - To anchor: was a -p il ‘;‘ Lol .,""'"-C :l!fl and bread. in excellent French (he had been four {beach, a wite who could cook, free-|gree, viewed from outside, but veri- e well deserved coat of |{mPOSSIDINtY: that léad-ine vanished | U1 b stobal Island. |years in Parls previous to marooning |dom, and God's sunlight. What more |table gardens within. And there are B ek T eaain sheet of good |23 ProBRBIY twenty ‘othier lead:lldes Neither were - thtes ‘others that we |himself on his equatorial possession) |did man desire? He had run away to | four other islands in the Galapagos P D allons’ of . kore., | 70ULd have vanished after:it fn’ those, vibited al' as #like as Deas—a chain | that the island was outs, and the full- |sea at the age of seventeen, run away | group, some smaller, some larger, ma s & hundred gallons of ker”|tathomless waters. 8o we stood,| of 2sh Heaps, i lre ness thereof; that he also was ours |from sea two years later at the Gala- | than Cristobal, uninhabited and exact- -sene.a (resh supply of provisions. nd | watching the Dream Ship dFift to her | Volcailc rodks Brokéd here and there | to command, and would we dine with!pagos Islands, and remained therelly similar in character. Nominally. incidentally a new leage of life. doom. 3 : i by a dazslifig’ caral beach. him that evening at the hacienda, it,ever since. This waa the second time they belong to Ecuador, which ac- - We had been advised that Panama | wnat happened during the next| X admit that to'professional sea-!being New Year eve? he had spoken English in fifty years,|counts for their tardy development; hay was a promising trolling ground, [ pour is as hard té describe aa-I have | farers our inability to find Cristoball The “chief” of police’demanded our [so we must excuse his halting diction, {but here, surely, is a new fleld for and for once report spoke true, for |no doudt it Wil be' to believe. The | must appear, ridiculous. For ‘their |ship's papers, which, when placed in |but the tales he could tell—the tales! | enterprise. we caught a fine bonito within an Galapagos Islands are:threaded ‘with | e ould -Boint out that wejhis hands, he gracefully returned He was here when, as I have sald,| In the midst of the valley, situated _hour of our departure. - We were |uncertain currents, and one was set- | were npt. Drofessional seafarers, but|without attempting to read and gave [the pirates of the coast pursued the{on a hillock and surrounded by the doing about five knots at the time, |ting us now on to the rocky face of an .{pconaequent and no doubt {his undivided attention to a rum|trade of murder for money, and hid | peons' grass houses, is the owner's ~and it was a fine sight to see a fi{teen- | slet cut as clean and sheer ta the sea | oyen s glandlubbers . engaged in | “swissle”, and & clgar. s the_loot in’ the islands. He had built |haciends. Hers we met, at a dinner “pound. fish leaping and splashing |as a slice of ch ‘We should‘lave| the materialization of & .di The little old man, whom we u stringe but appetising dishes, astern; and a still finer to see ecuions ' touched but for our , fending of. cruise.throvgh,thesSouth Sea Islande’learned to call “Dad,”. 2 B this { ¢ 2 “ the gox- 7 - P = 5 R = K ol - L. 2 g > = 2