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feed them delicately most of the time to enable them to carry the 
dusky owners, with their sloe-eyed families, at sunset on the hard 
highroads. 
The ex-President was taken to the club and treated royally, 
but not obstreperously. All was decorous and seemly, quite lacking 
in demonstrative enthusiasm which marks our hospitality. He was 
seated in a deep-bosomed Bombay chair on the shaded veranda, 
which looks out across a garden of coleas, poinsettias and hibiscus 
to the rippling blue waters of the strait leading to the lesser harbor. 
Across the water the palm groves of Freretown toss their stately 
heads in the afternoon breeze. Every one was quietly courteous to 
the ex-President, but there was no undue hustling to get an intro¬ 
duction or to hear what he had to say. 
The stolid Anglo-Saxon exterior does not melt in the tropics 
nor mellow in the arctic regions. When you get used to it you like it; 
perhaps you may even emulate it. But if you be a true American 
you rejoice exceedingly when you return to the friendly warmth and 
enthusiasm of your own country people, and your mantle of reserve 
falls from you at the first touch of American geniality. 
VISIT TO MISSIONARY SETTLEMENT. 
It being Col. Roosevelt’s strong characteristic to miss nothing, 
he accepted the invitation to be taken across the straits to the mis¬ 
sionary settlement, Freretown. There he was shown the church 
built by the converts. These same converts, or their kin, walk about 
in ill-assorted European garb, the men in trousers and shirts, the 
women in blouses and skirts. 
If they would only convert their souls and leave their bodies 
free and clad in the simple draperies which are suited to the time, 
the place, and the man! Freretown is a tidy, well-swept settlement, 
with an air of gentle self-righteousness united to the real enthusiasm 
which has carried the torch of Christ to the uttermost ends of the 
earth. 
The ex-President also went to the bazaars or street of shops 
where Goanese merchants beguiled him with sticks and umbrella 
handles of yellow rhinoceros horn or deep wrought silver from 
