Memorabilia 



from home he had heard nothing of 

 his mother. He had learned some- 

 how that she was no longer living 

 in Jamaica ; whether dead, or alive 

 elsewhere, he did not know. 



Jim's tenure of office soon became 

 permanent, outlasting the service of 

 all the other camp-men. When the 

 field-work had been completed he 

 went with King to Washington as 

 his personal servant and office-man. 

 The Fortieth Parallel Exploration 

 party had working quarters in an 

 otherwise unoccupied and wholly un- 

 furnished house, hired for the pur- 

 pose. All members of the corps 

 lived elsewhere, excepting King and 

 Jim, who lodged in the house. Some 

 of Jim's colored friends told him 

 that the house was haunted ; and 

 their ghost stories, apparently con- 

 firmed by strange and, for a time, 

 unexplained noises, in the dead of 

 night, due, in fact, to the drying 

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