U'.SHS. HOUSTON 
Galapagos Islands 
£5 July 1938 
prom: Ex-King of pollywogs. 
To : Neptunus Rex, Davy Jones and Members 
of the Royal Court. 
Subject: commendation. 
1. We who have been so signally honored by 
admission to the Kingdom of the Sovereign of the Seas, 
desire to pledge you our undying loyalty and to express 
our wholehearted congratulations to you and your aides 
for the most entertaining and enjoyable initiation it 
ever has been our good fortune to experience. 
2. The ship’s Carpenter has been consulted. 
It is in accordance with his wish that I nerein express 
individually his thanks to you one and all. 
3. We recognize the fact that we are neophytes 
--mere infants. We are determined, however, to so con- 
duct ourselves in afterlife that we may be adjudged com- 
petent and worthy to cai^ry on the high traditions of 
Your Majesty' s Most imperial Domain. 
4. Our only regret is that we ever were such 
lowly creatures, as in our present state oi enlightenment 
we know pollywogs to be. 
5. To speak orthodoxically , we each can say for 
the first time in our lives-.- 
"Today I am a Man." 
STEPHEN T. EARLY. 
