Later Life
He was later Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence, with the rank of acting captain, and a naval delegate and French translator at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919. After acting as Secretary and official interpreter to the First International Hydrographic Conference, London, 1919 he was elected the first Secretary-General of The International Hydrographic Bureau. He served in that role from 1921 to 1937. His later years were spent in British Columbia. He gave a series of lectures on his command in Lake Tanganyika and helped write a National Geographic article on his transportation of the two boats through the jungles of the Congo. He died on 29 January 1947.
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