On the same day he received three telegrams from Dublin all offering engagements to lecture; also an offer from the Cork Steamship Company to appear in Queenstown harbor in his suit where they would run excursions.

The Dublin offers he left in the hands of Manager Murphy while he accepted the offer of the Steamboat Company.

A couple of days after he appeared in Queenstown harbor and every steamer in Cork was loaded on that occasion.

From this appearance he realized a little over ten pounds.

In the meantime the story of his remarkable adventure on the Irish coast had been commented on by the English press and so many doubts cast on it, that prominent English papers sent their correspondents to Cork to investigate the matter thoroughly.