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agitate their coat-tails. They address the Chair as 

 " Your Majesty." Ordinary applause is not permissible. 

 Philosophy, in short, on that evening, plays the fool, and 

 often does it very cleverly and wittily. 



At the Red Lion dinner held during the Glasgow 

 meeting in 1876 the Lions' humour took the form of 

 telegraphic greetings supposed to have been sent to the 

 Den by various eminent personages. 



Telegrams received and read to the Den by the Lion 

 King, Glasgow, Sept. 11, 1876:— 



1. 



Champs Elysees, 



cet onzieme Septembre. 



La France qui a tant souffert sous le drapeau rouge 

 ne craint pas les Lions de ce couleur. Je les embrasse. 

 Vive la France ! Vive I'Association britannique ! ! 

 Vivent la solidarite et la liquidarite des peuples ! ! ! 



MacMahon, 



Marechal President. 

 2. 



(Forwarded by the kindness of the Editor of the D.T.) 

 New York Herald Office, 



Central Africa. 

 Latitude and Longitude mixed. 

 June 25, 1876. 

 (Received at Alexandria, September 10, 9.50 p.m.) 



Ascended twin peaks over 50,000 feet. Named them 

 Mounts Herald and Telegraph. Set up columns of each 

 paper on both. Stars and Stripes float on one. Union 

 Jack on other. Niggers nasty but don't relish rifles. 

 Shooting first class lately. Quite a store of explosives 

 left, but whisky giving out, having met missionaries. 

 Make most of Cameron while you can as I will be back 

 soon. 



H. M. Stanley. 

 3. 



Varzin den 11 ten, September, 1876. 



Mein allergnadigster Herr und Gebieter, der deutsche 

 Kaiser sendet seinem Koniglichen Bruder herzlichen 



