TJCNTDER A LUCKY A. Lifetime of the Same Author ON THE TRAIL OF
ANCIENT MAN ENDS OF THE EARTH THE NEW CONQUEST OF CENTRAL ASIA THIS
BUSINESS OF EXPLORING THIS AJVtAZING PLANET Under a Lucky Star A
Lifetime of Adventure ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS Blue Ribbon Books Garden
City, N. Y. Lontents Chapter i Adventure Comes Early 1 1 2 I Meet a
Whale 2 1 3 Submarine Courtship 32 4 Muscles and Murderers 40 5
Yokohamas Yoshiwara 50 6 Robinson Crusoes Isle 60 7 Typhoon 69 8
Yesterday in Japan 79 9 Strictly Personal Explorations 93 10 -
Korean Devilfish and Killers 101 1 1 The Long White Mountain 1 09
12 A Harem on the Rocks 119 1 3 The Blue Tiger 126 1 4 Yunnan
Adventures 135 15 Wartime Interlude 146 16 Dog Eats Man 158 1 7
Wall Street Ramblings 1 66 1 8 My Peking Palace 179 19 Marching
Sands of the Gobi 185 20 The Emperors Bride 198 2 1 Where the
Dinosaur Laid Her Eggs 210 8 CONTENTS Chapter 22 The Valley of the
Jewels 217 2 3 The Great Dinosaur Egg Auction 225 2 4 Desert Dune
Dwellers 235 25 Motoring Through a War 242 2 6 Politics and
Palaeontology 251 27 Fate Takes a Hand 261 2 8 Dangling in the
Depths 2 74 29 A Square Peg in a Round Hole 287 30 Berkshire
Paradise 294 CHAPTER ONE Adventure Comes Early OFTEN I have had to
sit on a lecture platform when I was going to speak, and listen to
a long introduction. It bored me stiff and likewise the audience. I
wanted to get at the business in hand and the job I came for. Thats
the way I feel about this book. It is the story of a life in which
I have had a lot of fun and excitement. So Tin going to begin the
tale as quickly as possible without going back into an account of
my ancestry and f amily Apropos of which George Putnam quotes the
remark of a visitingauthor to his uncle Major Putnam, die matter of
ancestry is all very interesting. Only, the present is so much more
important than the past. I always think people who are too much
concerned with the pedigree of their fore fathers are apt to be
like potatoes the best part of them is underground. Of my early
days there will be just enough to give a back ground for what
follows. I dont think anyone except myself would give a tinkers
damn about those boyhood years. As a rule, nothing of much interest
happens to a young man until he is out of college. One chapter
ought to suffice for the essential preliminaries. I was born in
Beloit, Wisconsin, at approximately two oclock in the morning of
January 26, 1884, when the temperature was thirty degrees below
zero. I am told that my eyes were so slanted that when Father first
looked at me he said, Why, Ive ii 12 UNDER A LUCKY STAR begot a
Chinaman That remark was current in our family long before, in
later life, I went to China to live for eighteen years. Beloit lay
on the banks of the Rock River in a part of south ern Wisconsin
that was all fields and woods and rushing streams. I was like a
rabbit, happy only when I could run out of doors. To stay in the
house was torture to me then, and it has been ever since. Whatever
the weather, in sun or rain, calm or storm, day or night, I was
outside, unless my parents almost literally locked me in. The
greatest event of my early life was when, on my ninth birthday,
Father gave me a little single-barrel shotgun. Previous to this I
had been allowed to shoot Grandfathers muzzle loader once or twice,
but it was too much f pr me to negotiate with its forty-inch-long
barrel. It was with that little gun that Iliterally blew up my
first wild goose. I was hunting just at dusk on the edge of a marsh
north of Beloit. Six magnificent wild geese floating on a tiny
patch of water showed up against the sunset sky. To stalk them, I
had to crawl for nearly half a mile in mud and water, mostly on my
stomach. Finally, I was near enough to shoot. At the roar of my
gun, the three geese slowly collapsed with a gentle hissing sound,
and out of a clump of bushes jumped Fred Fenton, a local sportsman.
The sounds Fred made were far from gentle hissings...
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