Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-21

A Trip to an Entertaining country Be-
cause 1t is Decidedly Different from the
Model Land Of America.

Is, lSs1-The Pacific Mail Steamship
company sends out vessel from San
Francisco, for the Sandwich Islands,
New Zealand and Australia, on the
fourth Saturday of every month, which
vessel makes the round trip and returns
to San Francisco within period of four
months. On this route the company en-
ploys four splendid steamers, each of
about 20 tons that is, 800 feet long and
proportionately wide.
We sailed on the Australia. leaving
San Francisco on the fourth day of the
month, few days late waiting for for
eign mails. The vessel passed out of the
Golden Gate under a heavy breeze, that
gave the passengers a very unpleasant
introduction to the heaving pillows.
The huge vessel soon began to dip
her head deep into the water, and
to timid passengenger it
looked as though she were
looking for land at the bottom of the sea,
then, by reverse movement, the front
would rise high above the water, sinking
the rear an equal distance below the sur
face. Very few passengers remained long
on deck to watch this sublime contest be-
tween the ocean and the craft, indeed
they had scarcely time to fully realize the
beauty, majesty and magnitude of the
tranquil Pacific ~ before a terrible cpl
demic broke out, prostrating almost every
soul. The disease seemed to expend its
force mainly on the stomach and brain.
The brain grew dizzy, then sent tele-
phonic communication to the stomach,
whereupon the latter organ Immediately
inverted itself, ejecting its contents, and
continued to writhe and distort itself in
a most violent manner This disease was
awfully discouraging, only a short
breathing spell was granted the poor
sufferers between the paroxysms, when
the process was repeated ad nausea1n.
No one who has not had some experience
with this unrelenting disease can form
any idea of the general and local physical
agony that it produces-the poor patient
scarcely considers life desirable and all
that is grand in nature loses its charms
To drink was to invite or hurry up a
paroXism of sickness. to eat was perilOus,
to attempt to talk was a veXatious fail
ure, and the only pastime was to WOO the
slumbers which refused to come or to
form deep vows never again cross the
ocean in the expectation of deriving
either pleasure or comfort from the trip.
The slightest exaggeration that Mark
TxIyoi ~ o6n q
a sea sick individual was first afraid that
wouldn't" 1t was not until the third
day out that we become &C.
customed to the motion of
the vessel and recovered from the intol-
cradle nausea. With few exceptions
the passengers were sufficiently we'll
on the third day to walk on the decks of
the vessel and escape the close air of the
state rooms. A fellow feeling made us
sswondrous kind" we began to grow
social, to learn each others names, to
form ourselves into little cliques, lotteries
and gossiping parties. The breakfast,
luncheon, dinner, tea and supper tables
began to be regularly crowded; there was
scarcely an absentee out of the one hun
dred passengers During the monotony
of long sea voyage, people absolutely
eat for pastime, and, after recovering
from sea sickness, nothing impairs their
appetites but stiff sea breeze.
The speed of 300 miles a day carried us
rapidly into the tropical sea, where the
weather was charmingly warm, the
breezes mild and the skies sunny and
clear Day after day we sat or lounged
on the vessels decks, fan
ned by deliciously soft winds,
and watched the shimmers
of the blue sea; sea worthy Of its name,
a region of perpetual calm. But what a
lonely ocean track this is; we have not
seen sail, whale, a porpoise, or even a
flying fish On the tenth day of our
voyage the vessel sailed into the harbor
of Honolulu, to the immediate front and
center Of the city. From the deck of
the vessel the city is almost entirely hid
den in a dense tropical forest. To the
rear or background can be distinctly seen
semi-circular mountain rising above
the clouds, and whose face is SCARED
with deep chasms, ravines and dashing
water falls. The streets run at right an
giles with the beach, they are shaded with
high trees, whose branches meet and in
terlace over the street, forming sort of
leafy tunnel.
On entering the city met Mr. Will
liam Hall, son-in-law of Gen. Van Cleave
of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who has lived
here great many years, and who kindly
volunteered to drive me in his carriage
through the city. AS we drove through
the shady streets l observed that they
were all narrow, rarely. wider than thirty
feet; that the houses were but one story
high and composed of coral rock, adobe
or large sun baked brick, also of wood,
grass and bamboo The residences of the
foreigners from England and America
are more pretentious, having deep vet1
andahs, wide halls and cool shady rooms
The houses are draped and festooned out
of sight, by tropical plants and Towering
vines, popularity in which they all
seem to share. Not only are the angles,
verandahs and windows of the houses
decorated with Towering trailers, but
the fences are buried with the
gorgeous passion vine and the night
blooming cereus;here too, in the same yard
is the geran1um, the fuchsia, the gessemine
and the beautiful hibiscus. The general
forest is made up with the stately palm,
the feathery- leaved algaroba, the bread
tree, forty feet high, the cocoanut, tama-
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