Memorabilia 



abruptly : " Well ! I declare ! And 

 how 's that baby ? " 



The woman who had cared for 

 King's baby in her cabin at Panama 

 was Jim's mother ! 



One very notable and highly sensa- 

 tional result of Mr. King's work on 

 the Fortieth Parallel Exploration, and 

 one which gave him much fame both 

 in this country and elsewhere, was his 

 startling discovery of the great swindle 

 in the " salted " diamond fields of 

 Wyoming, late in 1872. Early in 

 that year it had been noised abroad 

 that a great find of diamonds and 

 other precious stones had been dis- 

 covered somewhere in the far West, 

 presumably in Arizona, although the 

 precise locality was most carefully 

 concealed. A large number of the 

 gems, of unquestionably considerable 

 value, had been carried, it was said, 

 from the alleged fields to San Fran- 

 cisco and New York, where the most 

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