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Cabeza de Vaca, the Flret American
Traveler A Curious Pig Sport
. In? Rules for Boys.
Cabexa de Vaca the First American
Traveler,
As explorers we cannot give Vaca
and Docampo great rank; though the
latter's explorations were not con
temptible, and Vaca's were of great
importance. But as physical achieve
ments the journeys of these neglected
heroes can safely be said to be with
oat parallel. They were the most
wonderful walks ever made by man.
Both .men made their records in
America, and each made most of his
journey in what is now the United
States.
Cabeza de Vaca was the first Euro
pean really to penetrate the then
"Dark Continent" of North America;
by centuries the first to cross the
continent. His nine 3rears of wander
'ing on foot, unarmed, naked, e tarv
ing, among wild beasts and wilder.
men. with no more cempanr than
..three, as ill-fated comrades,, gave th
world its first glimpse of the United
States inland, and led to some of tlx
most stirring and important achieve-!
ments connected Avith its early his
tory. Nearly a century before the
Pilcrim Fathers nlanted their noble
commonwealth on the edge of -Mass
achusetts; seventy-five years before
the firtt English settlement was made
in the New World; and more than agen-
eration before there was a single Cau
casian settler.of any blood within our
area, Vaca and his gaunt followers ha3
trudged across this unknown land.
It is a long way back to those days.
Henry VIII. was then king of England,
and sixteen rulers have since occupied
the throne. Elizabeth, the Virgin
Queen, was not born when Vaca star t
ed on his appalling journey, and did
not begin to reign until twenty years
after he had ended it. It was fifty
years before the birth of Captain John
Smith, the founder of Virginia; a gen
eration before the biith of Shakspere,
and two and a half generations before
Milton. Henry Hudson, the famous
explorer for whom one of our chief
rivers is named, was not yet born.
Columbus himself had been dead less
than twenty-five years; and the con
queror of Mexico had seventeen yet to
live. It was sixty years before the
world had ever heard of Mich a thing
as a newspaper; apd the best geogra
phers still thought it possible to sail
through America to Asia. ' There was
not a white man in North America
above the middle of Mexico; uor had
one ever gone two hundred miles in
land in this continental wilderness, of
which the world knew almost lesp
than we now know of the moon.
The name of Cabeza de Vaca may
seem to us a curious one. It means
"Head of a Cow." But this quaint
family name was an honorable one in
Spain, and had a brave winning; it
was earned at the battle of Naves de
Tolosa in the thirteenth century, one
of the decisive engagements of all
those centuries of war with the Moors.
Alvar's grandfather was also a man
of some note, and conquerer of th'
Canary Islands.
Alvar : was born in Xeres de la
Frontera, Spain, toward the last of
the fifteenth century. Of his early
life we know httle, except that he had
ah
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nullafin some tousiumuiuu
" TFT a mat-iira man 1m
dude8W World. In that year
long
sailing from - Spain as
iif- decadea sfcerifj ot the expedition.
67 six hundred men with which Pam
filo de Farvaez intended to conqiur
and colonize I he flowery Land, dis
covered a decade before by Ponce de
Leon.
" They reached Santo Domingo, and
thence sailed to Cuba. On Good Fri
ar 1528. ten months after leaving
pain, they reached Florida, and
landed at what is now named Tampa
Bay. Taking formal possession of
the country for Spain, they set out to
explore and conquer the unguessed
wilderness. C. F. Lummis, in Juno
St. Nicholas.
Sporting Rules for Boys.
WHALING.
I. Never fish for whales in trout
streams, unless you have a good
strong derrick with which to land
such of the monsters as may - nibble
at your hook. ;
II. Never attempt to catch whales
with books made of bent pins. They
only aggravate the whales, and are
not strong enough to land any but
the smallest of leviathan.
III. Angle-worms are not considered
good bait for: whales, but if you can
find no other bait, see to it that the
worms are at least sixty-eight feet in
length, and weigh not less than two
tons. "
IV. When youhavo landed a whale,
do not, -, under any circumstances,'
attempt to preserve it alive by put-
tingit into a pail, which only unnecess-'
arily prolongs its sufferings.
V. Whales weighing under four tons
should be thrown back in order that
they may grow Inrger. The reason
fortius is that the larger a whale
crows, the1 more valuable he becomes.
It is permissible for you to fasten a
tag bearing your name upon them, so
that those who may chance to catch
them later will know that they belong
to you.
VI. If a whale when about to bo
landed manages to getaway from you,
do not try to restrain him by throw
ing a net over him, or uy jumping in
to the stream ami climbing on his
back. A course of this kind is ant to
be attended with very great danger.
VII. When a whale blubbers, do
not think he is crying because he is
afraid of Ibeing caught. That isn't
whv a whaJe blubbers at all. It ii
only a sign that he is laughing at you.
Boys blubber when they are unhap-
pv. wnaiesao it oecause tn?y aro
amused. ,
VII'T. Do not go hunting for whales
simply because vou are out of kero
sene fell. There are no kerosenc-oil
whales, and if this is your purpose,
you are sim.piy wasting time mac
might better be spent learning now to
read Latin and Greek.
J A. Do not think because a w? ms
wags his tail that he is pleased u vee
you. Just as his blubbering is ftugn
of his amusement, so is his wagging
ail an indication of his wrath
X. To attempt to catch whales with
a lasso is great folly unless you are
anxious to get a bath, and know that
you wUl never enter the water of your
own accord.
XI. Don't fish for whales, anyhow,
t is dangerous sport for boys.
Carlyle Smith.
A Curious Pig.
An account of a curious pig comes
rom Australia. A Mr. LeMortemore,
iving at Seriana Creek, Queensland,
has lately shot an animal which ho
describes as a sort of tree-climbing
pig. For a number of years wild pigs
have been numerous in that locality,
and his theory is that the original or
canines ana powertul back grinders.
"The fore feet are furnished with
hooklike claws, but the hind ones with
only two hooks upon each hoof. The
tail is thick, about a foot long, and
highly prehensile, and in a state of
rest it Is usually carried by the animal
in what is known as a Flemish coil." '
A Flemish coil, I believe, somewhat
resembles the figure 8. -
This last item about the new Aust
ralian pig is impressive. It shows that
this pig s ideas about the proper
arrangement for a tail are novel
and striking, and that, ho must have
devoted some attention to the subject.
This Australian animal has other
peculiarities. It is furnished with a
pouch, which it appears to use for
carrying a supply of food while trav
eling or migrating to afresh pastures.
"In drought the animal- climbs trees,
and hangs by its tail while it gathers
its food by its hook claws."
Mr. LeMortemore intends ensnaring
more of these pigs. He declares that
the flesh is excellent, "resembling veal
and ham pie." ,
A pig that climbs trees, carries his
tail ma Flemish coil and his dinner
in a bag, and whose flesh furnishes
veal and ham pies, is certainly a
novelfey, even in Australia, the land of
novelties. narper's lonng jfeppie.
One of the best songs wo have for
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hundredweight, and is pretty fat,
with f bristly, brown fur, small black
spots, snout and ears like a pig; but
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