CHAPTER XIX

IN EGYPT IN WAR-TIME

My trip to the land of the Pharaohs--Giants and dwarfs on a P. & O. liner--We are ordered into Plymouth--Submarines--An exciting experience--Destroyers to the rescue--The dwarfs and the lifebelts--Sports at sea--My contortionist is taken ill--Anxious days--Kindness of the Maharajah of Jodhpur-- Arrival at Port Said--Cairo--I engage another contortionist --Pelted with money--Pigs at Port Said--Captured Turkish pontoons at Cairo--Turkish prisoners playing tennis--Interned enemy ships at Alexandria--Wounded soldiers--At the Pyramids --Ammunition from India--On the way home--Across France in war-time--The Channel passage--Elaborate precautions-- Submarine nets--Paris in war-time--Madrid in war-time 280

ILLUSTRATIONS

CARLTON--OFF _Frontispiece_

TO FACE PAGE

CARLTON--ON 20

CARLTON AND ONE OF HIS SATELLITES AT THE THEATRICAL GARDEN PARTY, LONDON, 1919 50

CARLTON MESMERISING BOBBY DUNLOP 74

BOBBY DUNLOP, CARLTON’S AMERICAN “FAT MAN,” WHO DROPPED DEAD IN BERLIN 78

CARLTON AND HIS TRAINER, DAI DOLLINGS, THE FAMOUS WELSH ATHLETE, STRIPPED READY FOR HIS FIGHT WITH APOLLO 114

CARLTON AND JIMMY WILDE AT THE NATIONAL SPORTING CLUB 116

OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF A RECORD CATCH OF YELLOW FIN TUNA CAUGHT BY CARLTON AND ANOTHER FISHERMAN JOINTLY AT SANTA CATALINA 130

THE “BEAUTIFUL SWELLS” SPOOF SUPPER--A PAGE OF CARICATURES BY TOM WEBSTER 152

ARRIVAL IN JOHANNESBURG OF CARLTON, HIS GIANT, AND HIS DWARF 174

CARLTON AS A “HUMAN TELESCOPE” 192

PORTION OF FRONT PAGE OF THE “OAKLAND TRIBUNE” WITH REPORT OF CARLTON’S TREASURE HUNT IN THAT CITY 206

CROWD IN BRADFORD WATCHING CARLTON’S SEARCH FOR THE HIDDEN “TELEGRAPH” BADGE 222

CROWD AT OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA) WATCHING CARLTON’S SEARCH FOR HIDDEN TREASURE 222

CARLTON AND BILLY GRANT, THE OPEN CHAMPION PIGEON SHOT OF SCOTLAND 272

TWENTY YEARS OF SPOOF & BLUFF