I have climbed the Pole and leapt across the Line;

I've seen seals in Abyssinia and volcanoes in Virginia,

And I've dived into the shark-infested Rhine.

From the pemmican's fierce claws and the tiffin's gaping jaws

I have never shrunk in abject terror yet;

In the jungle I have tracked them and attacked them and then hacked them

Into mincemeat with my trusty calumet.

I have interviewed the MULLAH, KRUGER, MENELIK, ABDULLAH,

LOBENGULA, SITTING BULL and Clan-na-Gael;

When I think of where I've been, what I've done and what I've seen,