6 SPORT IN VANCOUVER 



American nation, not only to explain what 

 a "Pasha" was and how I became a Pasha, 

 but also to allow my photograph to be taken, 

 which he guaranteed would appear the follow- 

 ing day in his paper — naturally the leading 

 journal of New York. 



On my point-blank refusal to accord any 

 more interviewers an audience or to be im- 

 mortalized in his paper, he sadly expressed his 

 astonishment that I should refuse the celebrity 

 he wished to confer on me. 



Had not Mr. Kingdon Gould allowed him- 

 self to be photographed ? — then why not I ? 



Other interviewers gave me up as a bad job, 

 but just before landing I was leaning over the 

 side of the steamer when some one shouted, 

 " I have got you ! " and I saw that one of my 

 persecutors had taken a snapshot, which I am 

 glad to say must have been a failure, for I did 

 not appear in the New York papers the next 

 day. 



I acknowledge that one of my interviewers 

 to whom I had refused any information heaped 

 coals of fire on my head, by rendering me 

 valuable assistance in getting my luggage 

 through the Customs. 



I had often heard of the difficulties of the 

 New York Customs, but I must say I never 

 met with greater civility, and there was no 



