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...Fletcher got among the Indians, and which have already been mentioned. Various other articles of archaeological and ethnological interest have been given to the museum, among the most valuable of which are implements and masks from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...
...Hendrick Fairfail, Mariner" is the story of a shipwrecked sailor of the seventeenth century who must have been possessed of an enormous bump of inventiveness, judging from the remarkable expedient by which he escaped from his uninhabited South Sea Island. The story is well written...
...realistic strength of some of the situations is great. "Jack Meredith," the central figure of the cast, was taken by Mr. J. H. Gilmour very creditably. His personality was strong, and his acting forceful. Mr. Russell Bassett made a hit as "Patrick Doolan," a British sailor. Miss Isabelle Evesson did the part of "Dorothy," Jack's sweetheart, in a very taking fashion. Her stage presence is good, and added much to the success which she scored by her acting alone...
Then followed an excellent broadsword exhibition between Professor Castaldi and a sailor from the Navy Yard...
...much as four hundred years ago it was a favorite game for sailors of the British navy to "lay houlde of an goode rope's twiste" and pull against an opposing party on the broad ship's deck, of a quiet afternoon. The number of contestants was practically unlimited, and the contest was not decided till one or the other of the opposing parties had been pulled entirely over a chalk-line on the deck. Of course, after a few heaves, if one side began heaving all together, as sailor's heave a rope, the other side was bound...