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LLOYD TRIESTINO,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Steamer
"CONTE ROSSO?
Lid
"I began to get malaria, and so river and pushed into the forest, From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI did he. And then one night, as weļand I took up my place PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, (were both tired of quining, he told where the Wakambas told
AND SINGAPORE me what it was
in we were looking me
and whispers, for. Yes, simply a unicorn. He beaters moved of away from me, CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby had bad natives out in the forest and all the while I had forgotten to informed that all Goods are being searching for it for weeks, and lond my rifle. You may not believe of the Hong Ko
anded at their risk into the Godowas Kowloon though they had not yet seen it me--and if you don't I don't won- Wharf & Godown they had at last found the spoorder-but there it was; I did it.Kowloon, whence and/or from the And then he explained to me about Malaria, I suppose. As a matter wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will not be landed The animal, of fact, it is just one of these things here, unless netice has been given 48 how to get a unicorn. he explained to me, was always fair-that people do do once in their hours prior to. vessel's arrival, bat ly cautiqus of men, and,
on the lives, and very often, of course, it carried on from port to port to the whole, in spite of exceptions, had happens to be the last thing they final port of call to which the option
artends tended to avoid them more than do ever do.
No slalms will be admitted wit other animals; but that of late cen-
"Well, I stood there with my rifle the Goods have left the Godown, and turies, probably since the invention empty, waiting for the unicorn, a all Goods remaining undelivered after
the 9th instant, will be subject tu! of firearms or since some other 360 magazine: the magazine holds rent. change in the ways of men, it had five cartridges, and there should be All claims against the vessel must avolded men so assiduously that it another one in the barrel; and the be presented to the undersigned on or had almost dropped out of history.steps of the beaters sounded fur-before the 18th instant, or they will
not be "Up to the time that a Pope gave ther and further away from me. And
recognised. All broken, chafed, and damaged the horn of one to King Francols then there came a broken furtive Goods are to be left in the Godowns, one day in the fifteenth century, and sound, as of something heavy but where they will be examined on the for a while after, references to the aly coming down through the forest.th instant, at 10 a.m. by our sur- anicorn are so frequent that its And there I was, with my empty veyors, Mesara Goddard à Douglas
In the case of dutiable cargo, Con avoidance of man, however much
rifle ready. And all of a sudden signees are requested to inform the wished by the unicorn, can only be
I saw a great shoulder graceful, Imports & Exports Ofice that they called unsuccessful; after that time
so silken, and gleaming white, close bave such goods for examination.
No Fire Insurance has been effect- la cunning unknown before seems to by in that deusencas of greenery, ed.
have been added to its love of that I knew that it must be the Bill of Lading will be countersign- élusiveness, with the result that it
unicorn. Of course, I'd seen hun-ed by is no longer classed among Euro-dreds of pictures of them, and the
DODWELL & CO., LTD., pean mammals:
And then the hub-thing that I marvelled at most was
Agents. ter explained to me how to get one that the beast, or all I could see of
Hong Kong, 3rd June, 1933. There was no way whatever to come
at him, he explained, except one, him, was so surprisingly like to the pictures. I put up my rifle and Look a good enough' aim, and then click, and I knew it was empty.
and that was to drive him.
"Of course, I hadn't forgotten to
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"And then he drew out some paper and a bit of pencil, and show- ed me how it was done; he made a row of dots in a semi-circle to re-bring any cartridges at all, I wasn't present beaters, and put a cross in 80 crazy as that, whatever my tem- the middle to mark the unicorn, and perature was: my pocket was full of them. I put my hand to my pocket showed me how the flanks came gradually in. His hand was rather and slipped in a cartridge at once, shaky with malaria, and I couldn't and there I was loaded, with the. see very well either, but the thing unicorn still only twenty-five yards The Steamship seemed simple enough, a perfectly and, whether or not he knew what formed that all goods are being land-
But he had heard the click," away.
ordinary beat.
Yes, I see, I said, 'and the gun it was heat any rate knew it for d at their risk into the hazardous man, even if he hadn't yet seen and/or extra hazardous Godowns of stands here. And I pointed to place ahead of the unicorn, to which me; and he changed at once his The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and the semi-circle of beaters was mov-slow slinking glide for a sharp trot Godown Co., Ltd. whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained. through the forest.
No claims will be admitted after {ing.
"Agum in a gap I saw a flash of the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after
"""No," he said, "That would do
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Consignees of cargo are hereby in-
for any other animal; but not for his whiteness, and I fired and am he 1st June, 1933, will be subject to] the unicorn. It's been tried, and sure hit him, and then he came ent.
Where I hit him I never All claims against the steamer mut: that's why nobody ever gets one. for me. With the unicorn avoidance of man knew, my one good chance of a shots presented to the Undersigned on or Whatever it behind the shoulder was gone, and 1efore the 15th June, 1833, or they!
will not be recognised. amounts to a passion.
All broken, chafed, and damaged was in the past, that's what it la had had to take whatever shot I
of could get; and now I was again un-Goods are to be left in the Godowna, now; and not to lake account that is an error as great as suppos-loaded, for there had been no time where they will be examined on
The to put anything into the magazine 31st May, 1933, et 19 a.m., by Messrs. ing a rhing can't smell.
Goddard & Douglas. moment the unicorn aces the line of and the unicorn was practically on beaters, with the flanks coming top of me.
To comply with the General Bond- ed Warehouse Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Officer tendance when damaged datisbla goods are examined.
ed by
quietly in on him, he knows what's "Eren as I took another cartridge Jup; he knows he's being driven. By out of my pocket he made a lunge at a glance at the line (and his sight me with his flashing horn; a deadly is very acute) he knows to what weapon of ivory. I parried it with ed. direction. He immediately slips my rifle, and only barely parried, through the forest in exactly the op- for the strength of its neck was posite; straight through the line of enormous. It wasn't a thing that you beaters; and in these forests he could waft aside as you can with usually gets through without even the thrust of a sword, if only you being seen by a native. Not that are in time; it was so gigantic a they haven't seen them."
thrust that it took ail one's
stand,' I said.
**'Exactly,"
.
la at-
No Fire Insurance has been effect- Bills of Lading will be countersign- GIBB, LIVINGSTON CO, LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 25th May, 1933.
stood there motionless, seeming to}; ""Then the place for a gun to strength to turn it. And you had have an awe for its own horn, which
to be just as quick as when trying it now saw turned against it. ́ interrupted. to parry a rapier; even quicker. "Then I moved the horn into the 'Stand in front of the unicorn,
"At once he lunged again, and hand that was holding the rifle, with wherever he is, and we'll try to again I parried! no question of
the intention of seeing if it was drive him away from you, He's thinking of trying to load my rifle; possible to get a cartridge into what sure to come straight back." there was only just time for the was left of the breech; and at the "Now this seemed to me perfectly parry. And as I barely parried, movement of the horn in my hand. sound. Unicorns do avoid men: and then horn stipped by under my the unicorn shied like a horse, then 5th June there can be no doubt of that. They left arm, through the brown shirt turned round and 'kicked out with must have some method in doing it. I was wearing, clean as a bullet, his heels and sprang away, and was Granting: A considerable
Intelli-knew that I should parry fow more, almost immediately lost to sight in gence, without which no method is if any, like that; and that with the the forest. And that was the last any good, what better than hiding next thrust or the one after, all I ever saw of a unicorn." 12nd June in a dense forest, and, when driven, would be over, for the power I "But the born," said the young 19th July
always going in the opposite direc felt in that horn was clearly more fellow who had asked at first about tion to that which is obviously in than my match. So I stepped back to unicorns, "Why didn't you keep tended? And history is too full gain an instant; which I barely did. (the born?"
22nd June
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7th June 6th July
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of the unicorn for us to suppose so swiftly the huge beast stepped "Waiter," said Ferkena without that they are merely not there. forwards; and then I swung my rifle a word to his critic, "bring me that "Well," said Rhino, for Rhino over my back, and before he thrust toasting-fork that I gave to the Parks was his name there whatever again forought, it down as hard as Club." It may have been in England once, I could at his head. I knew it for
We most of us present something 'those Wakamba trackers have my last chance, and put into it all to the Club, and sure enough Jor-any Bill of Lading. found him. What about trying to the strength that malaria had left kens had once given an ivory morrow?"
handled toasting-fork that lay in a Tm not sure that I can hold a 6th Jane a rifle just yet,' I said.
"Now it was his turn to parrydrawer in the pantry; for whoever 6th July
He saw it coming and flicked at it wants to use a toasting-fork in a "No use giving in to malaria with his horn, and the horn caught club? And now the waiter brought here, he answered, or no one it and the two blows came together.it, a fork with silver-prongs, or 2011 June would ever do anything.
Either of them was a good blow. electroplate, and a long ivory "Which is true, though the place And together they amounted to handle, too narrow for the tusk of is a good deal written up as a health pretty much of a smash. Well, an elephant and too long for a tooth.
neither ivory nor steel is unbreak"And bring me," he said, "a small To AUSTRALIA. Calling at Manila (P. la.), Thursday is, Cairns, Townsville, All right, To-morrow," I said. able; and, as for the stock of my whisky and soda." And to-morow came, which was rifle, I don't know where it went. The whisky was brought, and as one thing to the good. You never The branches all round were full of he drank it the strange fork was 4th June know what's coming with malaria flying splinters. And then I saw handed round. Not all of us had Well, I was up and ready by that long, thin, murderous horn seen it before: none of us had eyed
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bacon and eggs as I was just then I beast was doing nothing at the It was then that Terbut leaned could have eaten a live squirrel moment, I picked the horn up And over to me and whispered, but only But was made a breakfast of sorts when it saw the horn in my hand too audibly, the one word on two bottles of vermouth that it looked irresolutely at me,Bon we had, and by about seven we "For a moment we stood like that! started
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