Show A A FLA A two 0 ern a ni ve re 4 44 MW ata alp ia 14 wa I 1 0 ok 92 44 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON NCE upon a ilni tanni two young americans k william clark and lewis were their names set out upon an expedition into inlo the wilderness of the great G reat west after bein gone cone nearly two years during which they had traveled more ore than miles oter oc a country unmapped uni unknown find and a land filled vath many perils they returned to thrill a nation which had all but given them up tip for lost and of that expedition a famous american writer wrote a i novel which lie called the magnificent adventure ture lewis end and darks clarks magnificent adventure took place more than a hundred years ago since that hat time lime the american wilderness has been conquered and there remains in it few if any spots winch which the white man lias has not trod what is true of america la Is almost equally true of the rest of the lie world for the restlessness and adventure seeking spirit of the caucasian C auca lias has driven him on and on until there are few places on oil earth into which he has not penetrated this does not mean liow how eier that even in this modern day when it would seem that our so called has spread everywhere there are no bits of terra incognita which lie tar far front from the beaten paths and walh still olter offer chances for dangerous adventure to those afflicted with the itching Itch irig font witness WHOM the case at a young american the lone hero of a modern magnificent adventure who has told lot the romantic story of ills wanderings out back of beyond in a new book the great horn florn spoon published recently by the cobbs bobbs company rugene eugene t Is his name twenty four years his alge nie and he was a student at columbia university until one day when 0 the odors of cinnamon and cloves from celon ceilon drifted from a musty doorway farther on the r strong aroma 0 of brazilian coffee filled my nostrils the tumbling reckless life and rich smells of the waterfront water front mingled with the clank and thunder of trucks and drays in one strenuous cheer or of approval of my sea search rab tor for a ship that would carry me away I 1 crossed one side street leaped across another the smelly clothes of the jewish wholesalers wholes alcis aleis brushed my shoulders and the rollicking bodies of negroes horse playing with their work lurched about abou me like trees in a hood flood along alone these streets street I 1 knew were shipping bureaus little one room affairs affair in n the second stories of warehouses with blackboards set out in front once I 1 bad seen listed an ad for a pearl pearld diver lver and several times I 1 had noticed seamen s jobs job on const coastwise wise schooners hooner ners I 1 had never been to sea as a sailor but I 1 had wanted to travel that way since childhood and tl felt that I 1 could do anything aboard a ship ah ab it if I 1 could only find and an ordinary seamans job on an india bound cargo careo steamers ste stear amerl nerl 1 already had a seamans passport one satur cir day pad when I 1 thought I 1 could ate stand college no longer I 1 had slipped down own to the battery and aej filled st one out and now the 1 time had come to go I 1 had left college coe birds h ads were flying north no ships sh were salting s east e a evand and the whole hole wide world waa w calling me to t come 08 and see eee 1 I 1 wanted wan t to go to india borneo p persia 1 to all the hend lands whose ahme names I 1 knew so 0 o well ato to all 11 the ean that washed their shores I 1 had to lawa for I 1 felt that if r I 1 stayed in new w york another day I 1 would turn into stone I 1 so be got away cy by a combination of good luck aej aal the magnificent type of sheer bluff characteristic act of young american America mg he be secured an A C B ticket certificate of able seamanship and got a berth on the S S hyacinth bound tor for india adventure A beckoned over the horizon but when he approached close to it it welcomed him will a furnace breath bre alli for five days and five nights the red sea held us panting with its heat the day men working beneath K awnings shook themselves like 3 wet dogs S and ni the ih sweat wat sizzled on the deck I 1 wore a huge par or of shoes insulated inside with newspapers yet et I 1 could could oot not stand on one spot very long without extreme discomfort the beat waves arose IS from the decks in a haze making the entire forward part of the ship look as if I 1 were seeing it through a pane of cheap glass class aarde at ceilon the bosn issued the edict aa jore leave leau for nobody owned d bf ard hired tale take him JAMES A KELLY AND SO 80 ys in the FILLMORE UTAH exquisite e sinbad I 1 the furi p 3 all tout but I 1 lie he had bad MUTU adlan illan port as s fair in e on the M I 1 of the NO bet bettik luck an no coal lifted in J 3 x 8 lump 10 per toy ton Y in cal co or Ps a a farr ad ad been in it terro terrorizing the countryside near diamond harbor some CO 00 miles from calcutta so the young amer lean ican immediately hied himself for diamond har I 1 ar bor where lie he hired a dhow and a crew of two men inen and sh set oft T up the bugli river in n search of a man eating tiger more than that lie he found one too this youth of twenty four years who had ceber befonti hunted one of the most dangerous A I 1 I 1 T animals in the lie one night when the hie dhow was tied up to the shore wright sat wat watering ebing with will h s rifle across ills knee suddenly denly the moon came out and I 1 saw the head and shoulders ot of an enormous tiger crouched at tho the waters edge I 1 was chilled with right the gun seemed no larger and of no more use than a burned match the eighteen odd feet between me and that massive mi salve head shrank to a tace face to face meeting and the eyes which now glowed in ever enlarging circles he id d a hypnotism that turned mo me into an agony of rigid flesh I 1 might have awakened mohammed I 1 might have cut the mooring rope and pushed out into the lagoon but I 1 was waa too frightened to release a muscle frightened lest the tiger in one tremendous leap should tall fall upon the the dhow and rip me to pieces it seemed hours before my courage returned my ringers fingers tightened upon the gun my iny forefinger felt feli the trigger suddenly I 1 became as cool and steady as it if I 1 were about to shoot a rabbit I 1 cocked both hammers noiselessly drew a bead and tired fired be tween the two ees ec A tremendous roar and splash stunned roe me automatically ma mati cally I 1 had reloaded and I 1 again emptied both barrels into the frenzied mass of boiling water d and ad 1 roaring tiger you have no idea of the terror ln in R tigers roar it drags the blood from ones veins by the quart and seems to dislocate every bone in ones body it la is volcanic immense and utterly devastating to all that lives it was the roar of a tiger I 1 am convinced that announced the creation of hell bell before I 1 could reload a third time he had disappeared into the darkness with long crashing bounds and I 1 was left quivering with hair trigger excitement I 1 and the next day they took up the trail of the tiger and deep in ill the jungle found him lead then with the praises of the natives for having del hered then them from this terror ringing in ills his ears ars hie file young joung american returned to calcutta Calci ilta there to get mixed up in a chely little religious riot between the alie fanatic moslems and the equally fanatic lIln hindus dus escaping with ills his life from that lie investigated the swarming streets of calcutta in the blazing sun still until a sudden and tn expected collapse sent him to the hospital for nine days with the dengue fever during the heat wave that had struck him down donn fever ever and disease ran riot through the city and four hundred natives died eiery every neck eck cut but some providence pulled the file young american through and as soon as he was able to stagger away from the file hospital lie tool tooh ship for rangoon where he wandered around the chinese quarter lo looking oldrig for trouble and failing to find it went on OD to singapore city of blood and pearls all afternoon I 1 honeycombed the town running into weddings quarrels gaudy funerals and ali all manner of activities typical of chinese life one beautiful funeral stretched through the winding streets tor for blocks some of the men were dressed in stiff collars and straw hats bate all were having a wonderful holiday and a discordant brass brans band played therell cc be a hot time in the old town tonight I 1 followed the procession tor for an hour but it went around and around the town getting to nowhere but though he nearly died of exposure and eer on the beautiful island of flores the big thrill of his life was still ahead that came when lie arrived in borneo the df jungle on oil the face of the hie earth there with the aid ald of 0 the bunh out ill governor lie he outfitted an all expedition which was to take him past the most remote outpost in borneo up the baolto river into the land of the who cat snakes drink blood for strength and take hea lieada Is for strength the lost last of the wild roen luen of borneo un route to this forbidden land lie he visited a demented chief who possessed fabulous wealth in diamonds that lie he had cot bot from the t 1 I 1 aa 4 N its IN dav whirlpools of 0 the alie carito barito and lie he saw those ilia ila a dozen or more round perfectly smooth ground smooth by thousands of years of swirling in the whirlpool pots at the bottom of the river the largest oz 0 them wat was the size of a dinie dime it was invisible when dropped into a up tup of 0 water after a series of adver adventures tures in which his life was in constant danger from the rapids in the river from crocodiles and a dozen other forms of deadly animal reptile and insect life in the jungle the party readied reached the territory of the fierce an and head hunting Unda oems As they penetrated deeper into the lie jungle the booming of witch drums told them that they had been discovered covered ois anti and they were about to be attached atta cLed after a nerve racking period of suspense the attack come poisoned darts shot at them from blow guns which laid one of the party low but three sang close to the young americal Amerl Ame car by some miracle he escaped unharmed and ills followers bent beat off the attack and continued on to their goal at ast asi they arrived iri in a village and the lie young oung adventurer was successful in milking friends with these head hunting pygmies who ho honored lio nored him by allowing him to attend one of their blood chilling war dances and as a final hodor invited him and his fits party into a long room from the rafters of which chhung jang nine human heads there they sat silently for hours while s party squirmed un uneasily eaIly not knowing knowing whether their silence meant md or ill then a thought vague nt at first took shape within my brain I 1 knew that I 1 had solved the mystery of 0 the silence he be be believed that each of the heads above them was div giving 1 g out the strength of a man and they were gathered gather e d t together in the long ions room to absorb that strength As a sign of friendliness the greatest honor and compliment he could bestow the chief had asked me and my men to sit within his long room and become stronger 1 I squatting within the long room roo m of the chief absorbing the departing strength of nine heads 1 I a white man sharing I 1 the he strange superstition which prompted tho taking taki ng of those nine heads it was almost unbelievable it was the weirdest weir dest st experience amy I 1 had ever undergone and I 1 sat bat quietly tingling with excia excitement e until long after midnight when the chief arose and we trooped silently out of the hut hilt that combined with other experiences aaeng the was undoubtedly the high point of the thrills which wright experienced in his travels although the rest of ills his stay in the orient was far from being a life of ennui off the coast of india a fierce man eating enting shark attacked the dhow in which he was riding find and gripping the keel heel in its teeth almost upset hie file heavily liea vily laden bont boat on the gulf of onion oman a son sand storm bl blowing ovIng olt off the lie arabian desert struck wright and his boa boatmen tinen and almost smothered them finally filling the craft so full of sand that it began to sink fortunately they were near the shore and were alle ahe to wade to land but soon afterwards they were captured by a party of arabs slid and carried away to the hie sheiks lair far into the desert after twelve d ays cap ill ity wright overpowered his guard and escaped on his horse there were other find and more anju sing in the lie ancient city of lar in persia in shinie in Pers epolis in kazerin und and in bagdad liag dad li mahylon hylon and the hie golden domes of I 1 adb linein lured him but I 1 could not bring myself to visit them all that I 1 had had to 0 far I 1 had won borneo I 1 had won oman I 1 had won flores persia and the cave ot of I 1 had won they were mine forever and no matter how many people saw them hereafter they would always be mine for or I 1 had suffered with them I 1 had given myself to them each hardd blila each pain had bout bound them up with the vitality of oc life so lie took a ship for home the modern guas elit adventure ws ended |