National Republican., 1883-06-29
COMPLETE GLOBE TRorTER.
A Model Condensation OF IN Voyage Aroun'
the World.


Pail MdR Gdscitc.
Left Monday on May and travelled by
evening train TO Dover The channel was
somewhat loppy, as usual, but soup at Calais
buffet soon restored exhausted nature. Went
on TO Paris; monstrous fine town the boule-
Yards and Napoleon's tomb really worth see
ing. Took coupe TO Marseilles and put up
at hotel In tho Cannobiere; splendid street.
but very noisy. Next day went on board
our steamer and fooled quietly down the
Mediterranean. II doesn't differ much from
the Atlantic, but is perhaps q trife bluer.
Touched at Malta; fine old fortified place,
though very dirty. There were once some
knights here, who seem TO have boon OK
pellod by tho English governor. Nal tese lace
Is made here Took In some now passengers
and thon steamed on TO Alexandria. Tho
town is called after Alexander the Great, who
was apparently born in the neighborhood
but IL is not otherwise interesting. Saw
Pompey's pillar, erected to commemorate his
victory over Cnsat. The population consists
principally of donkey boys, whose charges
are shamofully exorbitaht. Not being able
to speak the anguage-TurlSish, or
something of the sort-was compelled
90 submit to their eXtortions, but
caught thom crack or two on the head With
my cane, by way Of compensation. ON TO
Suoz, which turned out to be very hot, yet
nothing at all compared to the Red sea. Slept
on deck oil down The latter, and glad enough
TO get on shore again, even at Alden. Officers
quarterod at Aden say IL is dull hole which
is easy to believe for the country about con-
sists chiefly of sand and lock. The people
are Arabs-a very filthy lot. Officers club,
however, not half bad, and cook makes cap
ital curry. Landed mails, and proceeded ims
mediately 10 Bombay.
India does not seem quito so wealthy rs We
had always been led to expect IL. Hotel ac-
commodation bad, and natives mostly lean
and not half dressed. Landing at Bombay is
horrid bore, owing to the surf, and theboatN
men charge absurdly. Some of tho natives
| are Hindus and some Mohammodnns, but, as
whole, bad lot, I should say, and fright.
fully suporstitious Ran across to Calcutta,
long and tedious railway journey, stopping
| on the way at q place called Allahabad, where
there is an underground temple. Turned
aside TO Agra and Delhi to sec the Taj--a
very handsome sort of . mosque place-and
some other old native buildings; also TO look
up some fellows whom l used to know at
| Marlborough Club at Delhi very comforta-
| bic, but the hotel most ill-organized. CAL
| cutta Is really fine town-quays and public
buildings quite in the European style, and
| people driving about In carriages just like
the park or Regent street Sorry to leave
such capital quarters for the Peninsula and
Oriental steamer to Singapore, which Is built
on an island in the straits. Tho inhabitants
arc chiefly Chinese, Malays Dutch, and other
| foreigners, but the town looks prosperous
and tho hotel was good. Brandy and seltzer
is always taken iced they don't got Apolli-
naris here yet. Touched at Java, Dutch
island, where they grow a good deal of cof-
fec, and then straight on to Yokohama.
Japan is certainly, all round, tho queercst
place wo have been to the houses arc hall
Of them built Of paper and you go about the
streets In a sort Of bath chair they call a
jinrikisha. However, the tea houses are
really very pleasant, and L cordially approve
of the dancing girls. Altogether, Japan
seems a very nice sort of country for Euro
peans, not too straightlacod and with plenty
| of fun going on everywhere. We had an
excursion or two into the interior, stopping
ut delightful tea houses aud trying to chaff
the natives, especially the girls. Once or
twice some of the follows tried TO chaf us
back, being foreigners to them but, Of
course, that set us on our dignity, and we
fatter ourselves q judicious application OF
British oak about their shoulders soon
brought them to sense Of their proper places
From Japan wo steamed right across the
Pacific, the longest and most tedious sea
ever had anything to do with. The steamers
stopped at Honolulu, better than half way
over, whore We staid for fortnight This IL
o worry jolly little town, and tn o natives are
extremely picturesque, but dying out rapidly.
Tho mountain scenery is very grand, and we
saw o first rate volcano, with q lake Of fire in
tho middle. They make up delightful riding
excursions to 90 to sec it, and tho half caste
ladies ride as well as men, and very pleasant
society. Their mothers were cannibals
Most things are cheap except liquors.
The next steamer took us on to San
Francisco, magnifcently situated" the
guide book says, "at the portals Of the
poundless Western ocean," Coming across
we curiously lost n day, owing to habit OF
counting the sailors have on the one hundred
and eighteenth meridian, which will explain
in the appendix. San Francisco is called
Frisco here it is fine town with first rate
hotels elevators, bars, and all the latest appli-
ances of the most advanced civilization. We
went to the opera aud hoard Christina Patta-
lini quite treat to be back again in the cul-
tivated world once more. Aftor visiting the
Chinese quarter, dirty hole, which every
ono In Frisco told us ought to be burned down
Immediately, VIC took a palace car for Sacra-
mento. The big trees, which We also visited, are
very large indeed ON one Of the stumps thoy
have made platform for dancing, and good
many couples can dance there together without
risk of collision, Salt Lake City Is an inter
esting town, built by the Mormons, followers
of Joe Smith now dead there is % largo tom.
plo, not in very good architectural taste i
should say, and an excellent thoater Nor
monism doesn't seem bad sort Of thing,
but the people are poygamists, which oi
course is very shocking; and the Gentiles Of
tho place are dreadfully prejudiced against
it, However, Mormon elder with whom
conversed told mo he didn't think thore wat
nobler or grander set of men in the world
than Mormons, and ~ he had been here
ever since before the massacre, as they
call 1t, ho must have had opportunities
of judging. We crossed America by
the Pacific railway, and spent u day
at Niagara-very fine cataract-and weel
in New York. America is u splendid coun'
try, with capital hotels and admirable rail-
way arrangements, beside which the cigars
are good; but from my observations in the
states am fully convinced that republican
institutions won't hold wator. Most of tn,
people arc tired of tho republicans as they
themselves told mo, though l didn't quit
understand their motives, as they neverthe
less declared thoy were ardent democrats
However, IL is quito certain that before many
years are over America will become limited
monarchy, with an hereditary aristoorati,
! class. Wo sailed from New York in one o
the fastest Atlantic liners, and had splcn
did passage to Liverpool. In conclusion,
have no hesitation in saying that there i
nothing like travel to enlarge the mind anC
, widen ones views Of things generally, ant
that those who can't themselves go abroaC
will derive much benefit from reading judi
cious books of other peoples voyages. Though
TO bo sure, after this condensed summary o
; all that is worth seeing in foreign parts, it i
difficult 10 understand why anybody els
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