THE LOST WORLD)
By SIR ARTHUR CONAX DOYLE
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(Continued from Yesterday.)
And ao. In humbla and thankful
food, I close this account. Our eyes
have seen great wonders and our
souls are chastened by what we have
endured. Each Is in his own way
a better and deeper man. It may
be that when we reach Para we shall
stop to refit. If we do, this letter will
be a mall ahead. If not, It will reach
London on the very day thut I do.
In either case, my dear Mr. McArdle,
I hope very soon to shake you by
the hand.
I should wish to place upon record
here our gratitude to all our friends
upon the Amazon for the very great
kindness and hospitality which was
shown to us upon our return journey.
Aery particularly would I thank
Sanhor Penalosa and other officials of
the Brazilian Government for the
special arrangements vby which we
W'ere helped upon our way, and
Henhor Pereira of Para, to whose
forethought we owe the complete out
fit for a decent appearance in the
civilized world which we found ready
for us at that town. It seemed a poor
return for all the courtesy which we
encountered that we should deceive
our hosts and benefactors, but under
the circumstances we had really no
alternative, and I hereby tell them
lhat they will only waste their time
and their money it they attempt to
follow upon our traces. Even the
names have been altered in our ac
counts, and I am very sure that no
one, front 1he most careful study of
them, would come within a thousand
miles of our unknown land.
The excitement which had been
caused through those parts of South
America which we had to traverse
was imagined by us to be purely
local, and I can assure our friends
- in England that we had no notion of
* the uproar which the mere rumor
of our experiences had caused
through Europe. It was not until
the Ivernla was within five hundred
ml'es of Southampton that the wire
less messages from paper after paper
»nd agency after agency, offering
bugs prices for a short return mes
ipge as to our actual results, showed
us how strained was the attention not
only of the scientific world, but of
the general public. It was agreed
among us, however, that no definite
statement should he given to the
Press until we had met members of
the Zoological Institute, since as dele
gates It was our clear duty to give
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—Day by Day—
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By 0. O. M’INTYRE.
London, March 17.—A reluctant
sun thinned some of the fog this
morning. And so we fared forth for
a walk to Trafalgar square along the
Strand before breakfast. The curbs
were an usual lined with those trem
bling, shell shocked war victims—
selling matches, toys and othsr tri
fling glmcracks.
And at Charing Cross were the
same tight-bonneted Coster women
hawking Scotch heather "g tup
pence a bunch, lydy.” The sodden
news venders with their billboards
fore and aft emblazoned in stud type
ihe early morning news: "Death
Mystery at Fott Shrlgley.”
The pignuts about the square were
** waiting fui®he morning feeders and
the beggars \?ere drifting out to their
stands. At AVhitehall the guards in
their, six feet high fur caps with
straps were exchanging posts.. Lon
don is ahvas the same. It never
changes.
I laymarket offers a kaleidoscopic
view of London In the morning. It
Is a sort of Forty-second street, New
A’nrk, as a thoroughfare for workers.
Bank clerks In lemon gloves and
currying canes. Old boys In silk hats
headed for eye openers. Prim typists.
A sprinkling of monocled dandies.
AA'e put in at Oddenlno's for break
fast. And failed as usual to get ice
water. There Is an exasperating and
flinty stubbornness about granting
this request In London. Servants ex.
press the horror of being asked for
a stein of carbolic acid.
The taxi is not so cheap as in
Paris, hut it is much cheaper than
in New York and the -cabs excel
either city. We drove through Be
gent and Threadneedle streets and
along the Thames embankment and
then out through Hyde park.
I have an impression that London
is more poverty striken than ever.
The streeta are filled with unem
ployed. Some of them carrying ban
ners telling of their plight In a fash
ten that must etnbarraaa the crown.
AV’hlle waiting for my wife In front
nf Simpson's for luneh I had sn ad
venture. On the channel hoat. I had
given my ankle a alight wrench and
to protect It leaned rather heavily on
^ a walking stick. I suppose I re
msined too long in one spot for an
English hobble came \tp. "Move
sprightly," ha ordered. I told him
sprlghtllness was not In my line and
gave him what I considered a nasty
look. He asked to aee my "pipers”—
meaning my passport. It was In my
trunk and I had vialons of a ride In
the wagon where you look out the
little barred window like a caged
circus hear. lie reflected s while and
walked away. I hope lie catches hla
chinstrap In a meat hook or some
thing.
Then again, I went to a theater j
ticket agency for seats to a music
hall matinee. “Two good seats,” I
anld. “You mean atalls?" he corrected
and bo long as they want to call
them that I let It pass. lie studied hla
chart and gave me two tickets. “Very
good atalla," he aald, passing them
over. I paid the tariff, but waa deter
mined to have the last word.
“Th rinks for the seal a." X said, de
parting merrily. I,ondnn appear* to
have a grouch.
This evening I walked down
through Itoundsdltch und watched
1 he queer old character* who collect
about the pubs there—cabmen, char
women and the Alfa and 'Arrys. In
one pub I sat next to a scene shifter
at th* Drury Ijane. He told me that
Ixindon waa not what It used to ha.
We need, h# aald, another “King
H’edward!” I suggested that the
Prince of Wales waa evincing the
same flair for popularity. “But," he
0^ aald. “he goes hitting It off to
H'amerlea and being talked about,”
The night ||f* of London la some
what like that or New York—supper
eluha where liquor I* sold In violation
of the law. There la nothing Interest
♦eg or n*w shout 1* I have a feeling
«f regret that I left Baris. Perhaps
It'a the fog.
tOesrrlahL III*).
our first report to the body from
which we had received our commis
sion of investigation. Thus, although
we found Southampton full of Tress
men, we absolutely refused to give
any Information, which had the nat
ural effect of focussing public atten
tion for the evening of November 7.
For this gathering, the Zoological Hall
which hail been the scene of the in
ception of our task was found to be
far too small, and it was only In the
Queen's Hall in Regent Street that
accommodation could he found. It Is
now common knowledge the promot
ers might have ventured upon the
Albert Hall and still found their
scarce too scanty.
It was for the second evening after
our arrival that the great meeting
had been fixed. For the first, we had
each, no doubt, our own pressing per
sonal affairs to absorb us. Of mine
I cannot yet speak. It may be that
as it stands further from me I may
think of It, and even sjteuk of It with
less emotion. I have shown the read
er in beginning of tills narrative
where lay the springs of my action.
It is but right, perhaps that I should
carry on the tale and show also the
results. And yet the day may come
when I would not have it otherwise
At least I have been driven forth to
take part in a wondrous adventure,
and 1 cannot but be thankful to the
lorce that drove me.
And now I turn to the last supreme
eventful moment of our adventure. As
I was racking my brain as to liow
T should best describe It, my eyes
fell upon flie issue of my own Jour
nal for the morning of the Xth of
November with the full and excellent
account of my friend and fellow-re
porter Macdona. What can l do liet
ter than transcribe his narrative—
headlines and nil? I admit that the
paper was exuberant in the matter,
out of compliment to its own enter
prise In sending a correspondent, hut
the other great dallies were hardly
less full In their account. Thus, then,
friend Mac in his report:
THE NEW WORLD
GREAT MEETING AT THE
QUEEN'S HALL
SCENES OF UPROAR
EXTRAOR DINA RT 1NCI DENT?
WHAT WAS IT?
NOCTURNAL RIOT IN REGENT
STREET
(Special)
"The much-discussed* meeting of
the Zoological Institute, convened to
hear the report of the Committee of
Investigation sent out last year to
South America to test the assertions
made by Professor Challenger as to
the continued existence of prehistoric
life upon that Continent, was held
last night in the greater Queen’s Hall,
and it is safe to say that it Is likely
to be a red letter date in the history
of Science, for the proceedings were
of so remarkable and sensational a
character that no one present is ever
likely to forget them." (Oh, brother
scribe Macdona, what a. monstrous
opening sentence!) "The tickets were
theoretically confined to members and
their friends, but the latter is an
elastic term, and long before eight
o'clock, the hour fixed for the com
mencement of the proceedings, all
parts of the Great Hall were tightly
packed. The general public, however.
| which most unreasonably entertained
a grievance at having been excluded,
stormed the doors at a quarter to
eight, after a prolonged melee in
which several people were injured,
including Inspector Scoble of H Divi
sion, whose leg was unfortunately
broken. After this unwarrantable in
vasion. which not only filled every
passage, but even intruded upon the
space set apart for the Press, it is
estimated that nearly five thousand
people awaited the arrival of the
travelers. When they eventually ap
peared they took their plaees In the
front of a. platform which already!
contained all tho leading scientific
men. not only of this country, hut
of France and of Germany. Sweden
was also represented, in the person
of Professor Sergius, the famous
Zoologist of the'Universlty of Upsala.
"The entrance of the four heroes
of the occasion was the signal for
a remarkRble demonstration of wel
come, the whole audience rising and
cheering for some minutes. An acute
observer might, however, have detect
ed some signs of dissent amid the
applause, and gathered thRt the pro
ceedings were likely^ to become more
lively than harmonious. It may safe
ly be prophesied, however, that no
one could have foreseen the extraordi
nary turn which they were actually
to take.
"Of the appearance of the four wan
derers little need be said, since their
photographs have for some time been
appearing In all the papers. They
bear few traces of the hardships
which they are said to have under
gone. Professor Challenger’s beard
may ho more shaggy. Professor Hum
merlee’s features more ascetic, Lord
John Roxton s figure more gaunt, and
all three may he burned to a darker
lint than when they left our shores,
but each appeared to be In most ex
cellent health. As to our own rep
resentative, the well-known athlete
and International Rugby football play
er, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to
a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd
a smile of good humored contentment
pervaded his honest but homely face."
(All right. Mac, wait till 1 get you
alone!)
When quiet had been restored and
the audience resumed their seats after
the ovation which they had given to
the travelers, the chairman, the Duke
of Durham, addressed the meeting.
•He would not,’ he said, ’stand for
more than a moment between that
vast assembly and the treat which
lay before them. It was not for him
to anticipate what Professor Summer
lee, who wax the spokesman of the
committee, had to say to them, but
It was common rumor that their ex
pedition had been crowned by extraor
dinary success.’ (Applause.) ‘Appar
ently the age of romance was not
dead, and there was common ground
upon which the wildest Imaginings of
the novelist could meet the actual
scientific investigations of the search
er for truth. He would only add,
before he sat down, that ho rejoiced
—and all of tlie, . would rejoice—that
these gentlemen had returned safe
and sound from their difficult and
dangerous task, for it cannot be de
nied that any disaster to such an ex
pedition would have inflicted a well
nigh irreparabla loss to the cause of
Zoological science.’ ((treat applause.
In which Professor Challenger was
observed to join.)
"Professor Sumnierlee's rising was
the signal for another extraordinary
outbreak of enthusiasm, which broke
out again at intervals throughout his
address. That address will not be
given in extenso in these columns, for
the reason thnl a full account of the
whole adventures of the expedition
is being published •<« a supplement
from the pen t f our ow n special cor
respondent. Some general Indication'
will therefore suffice.
(To Be t'ontlnsed Tomorrow.)
Immunisation against typhoid
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