They found a good many things. To enumerate a few:
A nail in North American land; (1)
A meat in the isles of the sea; (2)
A gale of wind in a city of Maine,
As you may plainly see; (3)
A yellow man in Asian heights; (4)
Delicious fruit in a bay; (5)
A friend to man in a Russian lake; (6)
A measure of oil in Cathay. (7)
At a hotel in France they were given a queer dish of food. Here is the receipt for it:
Take poetry, music, and painting,
Already well combined,
And to make the dish we are wanting,
Add the first person you find.
Then stifle my first by my second,
And let all stand until cold,
When you have a delightful pickle
That our grandmothers made of old. (8)
Proceeding, they found
A town of Maine in a Floridian bay, (9)
A bit of wood in a sea; (10)
A little friend in an Alpine pass,
As travellers all agree; (11)
Convenient coin in a Russian mart; (12)
Bright light in an African isle; (13)
A part of a ship in a British town, (14)
A stag in a town of the Nile. (15)
In Egypt a landlord presented them with a bill that read:
When first you know that I am near,
You turn from me and flee;
Yet if I harm you, what seems queer
Is that you send for me;
And when my bad effects are gone,
You make me pay for what I've done. (16)
Their time getting short, the wise men left their bowl for a balloon, and found
A writer's tool in a Danish port, (17)
French coin in a State of the West; (18)
A rodent fierce in a Grecian plain,
A dreaded household pest. (19)
A favorite toy in a burning mount, (20)
With a cutting tool they see; (21)
A statesman famed in a town of Maine; (22)
A snake in an inland sea. (23)