uncontaminated up to the present but I suppose some of them Q1 

 will be dead by the time I get home. 



These "cultures," of course, Wherry had lugged out of 

 Manila. Not in his manifest were jars of major parasites, 

 more jars carrying large portions of human anatomy, count- 

 less boxes of slides and those vipers given him as souvenirs of 

 his journey across India (still to be seen in what was the inner- 

 most of his sanctum in the university of Cincinnati) . For 

 the rest, his baggage was rather light. So it was that he 

 stepped aboard the Xieten of the North German Lloyd on July 

 2, 1905, due to land at Havre some three weeks later. Of the 

 total adventure he spoke but rarely. It was not because it had 

 been hard — for endurance was the indispensable ingredient of 

 the philosophy of romance by which he lived — but because 

 unbearably filthy. He had been able to make India third 

 class, but he had not been able to get away from it except 

 fourth class — such were his finances. Under this designa- 

 tion, he had become freight of the "self -moving" variety, 

 which was to say, one with the cattle and swine. 



He thought it good fortune when he discovered himself the 

 owner of a high-lying bunk in the hold where he was locked. 

 Before the second day out, however, his heart was wrung by 

 an unshaven Russian with much cough. Wherry believed 

 him tuberculous and would have had no mixed feelings toward 

 him if the poor soul had not employed the one wash bucket for 

 cuspidor. It compelled distance on Wherry's part, which he 

 said received cruel rebuke on the third day when the Russian 

 asked to borrow his shaving apparatus. How he finally 

 managed, he detailed when off Naples (July 17, 1905) : 



The ship was so crowded and everything was so vile that I 

 thought I would not be able to stand the strain. Halfway 

 over, I was fortunate enough to buy the bos'n's cabin. This 

 is nicely fitted up and I have had it all to myself. One of the 

 stewards serves me my meals here and by the use of a few 

 judicious tips, I have had many delicacies which were not due 

 me. So you see I have been quite comfortable and am feeling 

 quite well. 



Wherry went to Paris to visit the Instihtt Pasteur. It was 

 another feature of his wanderings of which in later years he 



