Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 47

THE EVENING rmhw hizes on the futility of the reck- less and adventurous spirit of these men of the English-speaking race whose trophies lie all about him. And week in and week out the proua penguin, in nis opera cloak of great feathers with its brilliant yellow collar, throws out his white chest and disdains the Joss' observations. “Poor, cold, brazen thing,” he seems to say, “how can you go on drooping there, musing so pessimistically, amid a galaxy of things like this? Little things, dusty things they may be, but they are rich with the storied past of this great country.” Scene in Society Museum. The scene of this perpetual and silent EPIC ADVENTURES SHOWN IN GLASS CAGES OF MUSEUM British Collection, Forming Record of Centuries, Pictures Deeds in All Parts of Globe. BY ROSE PATTERSON. LONDON, December 20 (N.AN.A).— dorever keeping guard over a modest collection of faded but significant | dialogue is the museum of the Royal things. | Geographical Society in Kensington In a quiet house With & trim garden not | The Chinese Joss, from his corner in | Gore. far from the Albert Hall a yellow and | the large, bright room, day after day | The mournful Chinese Joss has black bewhiskered Chinese Joss and a | continues to fold his h nds and droop traveled a long way to Kensington. He great white-breasted king penguin are |his long black mustache while he|wa. taken by Midshipman (afterward STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1929. | beltion at the capture of Ningpo in 1862 | And the perky penguin has had no mean journey from Macquarie Island, | whence he was brought by the Nationai | Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. And now, having become fully ac- quainted with these two worthies, let us philosophize with the one or become enthusiastic with the other over some of the treasures in their keeping. Near Mr. Joss you may see some four feet of the great tree under which the heart of Dr. Livingstone was buried on the shores of Lake Bangweulu, where old Chitambo village used to be. They | | have removed the bark and carved in | deep letters: “Dr. Livingstone, May ! 4, 1873." | If that great name is not already deeply buried in the mind of the be-| holder it will surely take root when he | | sees the great heavy slave chains Liv- | A short walk will bring you back again almost beside the penguin to the contemplation of & very hard and un- comfortable looking saddle, with two horns of wood, and shabby cushions of | canvas and worn and faded red leather. But the dull red leather grows crim- son and the wooden horns seem to have turned mto gleaming brass trumpets playing a martial fanfare when it is borne in upon you that on this very old saddle Gen. Gordon rode into Khar- | toum, making his final entry into that besieged city in 1885 to meet a hero's death. Hard by the silk flag Sir Edward Parry hoisted in latitude 8245 N. in July, 1827, is the Union Jack carried by Sir Hubert Wilkins on his flight from Point Barrow to Spitzbergen 101 years later. You may see the sledge Admiral McClintock used in the Arctic expedi- tion of 1857-9, as well as a bit of the ‘Mmkal Sir Albert H.) Markham dur- | ingstone brought from Central Africa. lme Dr. Mawson dragged for 31 miles | ing the suppression of the Taiping re- | after the death of his companions. You are reminded that Dr. Mawson | is still in the thick of the research fray |by a glance at the wall where hang | many pictures and drawings of the ex- ploring vessel Discovery, and by the | model of that good ship in which he is now a-voyaging and whose name he means to reaffirm. The First Physical Globe. A large and imposing object is the first physical globe, made by Dr. Veith Johnston and exhibited in 1851, when separate medals were awarded for the globe and the stand. The globe is supported by beautifully carved figures representing the four continents. ‘There is also Charles Price’s terres- trial globe, of 1720, dedicated to Sir Isaac Newton, and many ancient maps whereon dolphins sport in the seas and feathered redskins and other interest- ing people are depicted somewhat dis- proportionately about the land, one Chi- nese, for instance, covering a good many hundred square miles. | Then there are the many personal be- longings of great and daring men: The solled old cap Dr. Livingstone made for | himself of tent cloth, lined with native grass and completé with peak: his col- lar, too, with its frayed buttonhole; the boots Stanley wore on his last expedi- tion through Africa, mended again and again with odd bits of wire, tin, ! string—just worn to rags. And what of that much rusted knife and fork and old pannikin, relics of | Leigh-Smith’s expedition to Franz | Josef Land, and Shackleton's worn hel- |met? Are they not as romantic as the {old charts of Capt. James Cook that lie nearby, or the manuscript diary of Capt Scott? There are curious things, too, like \the perfectly lgreurved ship’s biscuit which has had a charmed existence. * 47 Left at Port Leopold by Sir James Ross, in 1849, it was found there and brought, home again by Markham. | " Of the temple banner from the mon- astery of Pamionchi, Sikkim, with its representations of Himalayan shrines and hermitages, and the beautiful Arab chest. once the pride of Her Highness | Seyyidah-Moza-Binti-Hamal-Bir-Salim, only wife of His Highness Seyyid Barg- tash, Sultan of Zanzibar some 80 years ago, I must leave you to imagine the history while I tell you about the Nyoto leopard claws. | _The Momball tribe in the Belgian | Congo boast a secret leopard society, whose members believe they have a | leopard inside them. 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