Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-07-23
An OCEAN TRIP.
Interesting Notes from au East Tcnnes.
Seean Abroad.

perullJleu 10 make lTOll Il private leJlCr Oh |
a well known citizen of Knoxville now in |
Europe, will be read with pleasure by his |
many friends and the public generally.
We hope to be able from time to time to
give further items of his journeyings
among scenes in which all feel an interest
"STEAMER RUSSIA, IN MID OCEAN,
May 2G, 1873.
MY DEAR 4 e There is nothing in a
sea-voyage worth writing about. The
weather is dark, dreary, rainy, not like
May, but November. / feel like one in
prison, confined as / am to the vessel.
''Cabined, cribbed, confned,n ex-
presses it. There is little socability
among the passengers. We are to-day
one thousand miles from land. | have not
been sick enough to lose a meal on the
voyage. At first we had a smooth sea.
Our ship is good one, and now, under
strong wind, we are making sixteen knots
per hour. We expect to make a short voy-
age. l do not think the sun ever shines
longer than few minutes at sea. have
seen but one or two scraps of sunshine
since | came aboard. Once we had a rain
bow-such a rainbow as first bent its many
-colOred hues of beauty across the heavens,
a token of the covenant with man. not
one, but two bright deep, rich arches
stretching from the sea to the zenith, and
then again down to the sea, with colors so
rich, warm, perfect and tangible that no
limner on earth would attempt to copy
them, and from the bases of the arches eX-
tending to our very feet,
"In one long track and trail of splcndor,"
the blue sea faithfully reflects each color
and line of beauty, and we felt that for the
first time in life we had seen " q rainbow
in the Heavens
MAY %, 1S73.-Weather bad, strong but
favorable wind and rough sea. No chance
to stay on deck more than few minutes
at time, then with the risk of ducking
when we "ship sea-" Running sixteen
knots an hour.
The passengers on board our ocean
steamer are strange medley, worth few
days study. Every condition of life has
sent its representative here, every nation
atty nearly has given us one of its number.
| have spent much of my time in listless,
lazy observation, studying character. Pas
Sengers become more sOciable as they be-
come accustomed to their imprisonment,
II know no better word for it, A week
this evening since | saw land, but strong
favorable wind so far on the voyage in
-duces us to hope to see land tomorrow,
(Thursday,) evening. / shall look for some
mail when [ reach Edinburgh. When 1
get to Queenstown, you will be decorating
soldiers graves.
L will save the rest of this sheet to record
anything that may occur in the next twen-
ty-four hours.
MAY 29.-Smooth sea to-day. We eX-
,pect to see land about p. NJ. to-day, and
TO reach Queenstown at 10 p. NJ, when this
imprisonment will cease. The cooking is
getting too monotonous, as everything else
is.
MAY 3d.
1.-THE best laid schemes o. mice ard men, &c.
We saw land Ureand) about p. NJ. Soon
afterwards a heavy fog settled around us,
and we had sto steer for England, slow
the engine and blow fog-whistles every
few minutes all night Several passengers
were up all night. Fishing vessels were
in danger of being run down. 1 will not
do Ireland at present. but get me up
new programme. No land in sight this
morning, but plenty of sails.
LIVERPOOL, May 3l.-This morning we
find ourselves in the Mersey, opposite Liv-
erpool, and tug is eoming to take us off.
j. NJ. T.
will go to Chester and spend Sunday"
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