SIR WALTER RALEIGH. If 



stone, and the elixir of life. But he 

 found them not. They are still with 

 Keely's motor, in the womb of Time. 



In 1616, James the First sent Raleigh 

 with fourteen ships to the Orinoco after 

 the tons of gold he thought were there. 

 All Raleigh found was a bar or two of 

 gold, captured from a Spanish settlement 

 on the Orinoco River. His son Walter 

 was killed in the assault upon the settle- 

 ment, and, " with my brains broken," he 

 wrote his wife, he was forced to sail for 

 home from the grave of his son. 



It would be of historic interest to have 

 the grave of young Walter Raleigh lo- 

 cated, by the way. Like Ophelia's body, 

 the body of a Raleigh should enrich the 

 soil that has received it. 



The Spaniards were wild with rage at 

 Raleigh's acts, and Spain went yelling, 

 into James's audience chamber, " Pirates ! 

 Pirates ! " 



Spain demanded reparation. James 

 desired to please Spain, as he wished to 



