The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-23
COMPLETE GLoBETRoTrER.
a Model Condensation of a Voyage Around
the World
ran Mall Gazette.

Left London on May l, 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-
wards and Napoleon's tomb really worth see
ing. Took coupe TO Marseilles, and put up
ut hotel in the Cannebiere; splendid street,
but very NOISY. Next day went on board
our steamer, and fooled quietly down the
Mediterranean. 1t doesn't differ much from
the Atlantic, but is perhaps trile bluer.
Touched at Malta; fine old fortified place,
though very dirty. There were once some
Knights here, who seem to have
been expelled by the English Govern
or. Maltese lace is made here. Took in
some new passengers, and then steamed on to
Alexandria. The town is called after Alex
3 ander the Great, who was apparently born In
the neighborhood; but it is not otherwise in
teresting. Saw Pompey pillar, erected to
commemorate his victory over Cesar. The
population consists principally of donkey
boys, whose charges are shamefully exorbi-
tant. Not being able to speak the language
Turkish, or something OF the sort-was COM
PEELED to submit TO their extortions, but
caught them a crack or two on the head with
my cane, by way of compensation. On to
Suez which turned out to be very hot yet
Slept on deck all down the latter, and glad
enough to get on shore again, even at Alden.
Officers quartered at Alden say it is dull
hole, which is easy to believe, for the conn
try about consists chiefly of sand and rock.
The people are Arabs-a very filthy lot.
Officers club. however not half bad, and
cook makes a capital curry. Landed mails,
and proceeded Immediately to Bombay.
India does not seem quite so wealthy as We
had always been led TO expect it. Hotel &C
commodation bad, and natives mostly lean
and not half dressed. Landing at Bombay
is horrid bore owing to the surf, and the
boatmen charge absurdly.- Some of the ma
tives are Hindus and some Mohammedans,
but. as a whole, bad lot, / should say, and
frightfully superstitious. Ran across to Cal
cutta. long and tedious railway journey,
stopping on the way at place
called Allahabad, where there is an
underground temple. Turned aside TO
Agra and Delhi to see the Tai la
very handsome sort of a 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-
BILE, but the hotel most iu-organized. CAL
cutta is a 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. The inhabitants
are chiefly Chinese, Malays Dutch and other
foreigners, but the town looks prosperous
and the hotel was good. Brandy and settler
is always taken iced; they don't get Apolli-
nars here vet Touched at Java, Dutch
island, where they grow good deal of cot
fee, and then straight on to Yokohama.
Japan is certainly, all round the queerest
place we have been to; the houses are half of
them built of paper, and you go about the
streets in sort of Bath chair they call a
jinrlkisha. However the tea-houses are
really very pleasant, and cordially approve
of the dancing girls Altogether, Japan
seems very nice sort OF country for Euro
peans; not too straightlaced and with plenty
of fun going ON everywhere. We had an
excursion or two into the interior stopping
at delightful tea-houses and trying to cheff
the natives, especially the girls. Once or
twice some of the fellows tried to chaf us
back being foreigners to them; but, of
course, that set us on our dignity, and we
hatter ourselves a judicious application of
British oak about their shoulders soon
brought them to a sense OF their proper
places.
From Japan we steamed right across
the Pacific, the longest and most tedious sea
l ever had anything to do with. The
steamers stopped at Honolulu, better than
half way over, where we staid for a fortnight
This Is a very jolly little town, and the
natives are extremely picturesque, but dying
out rapidly. The mountain scenery is very
grand, and we saw first-rate volcano, with
lake of fire in the middle. They make up
delightful riding excursions to go to see it,
and the half-caste ladies ride as well as men,
and are very pleasant society. Their mothers
were cannibals. Most things are cheap except
liquors. The next steamer took us on TO
San Francisco, "magnificently situated" the
guide-book says, 'at the portals of the
boundless Western ocean," Coming across
c1,r l,1ct Anxr hob Of
counting the sailors have on the one hundred
and eightieth meridian, which l will explain
in the appendix San Francisco is called
Frisco here; it is a fine town with
first-rate hotels, elevators bars, and all
The latest appliances of the most advanced
civilization. We went to tie opera and
heard Christina Pattalini quite treat to be
back again in the cultivated world once
more. After visiting the Chinese quarter a
dirty hole, which every one in Frisco told us
ought to be burned down Immediately, we
took palace car for Sacramento The big
trees, which we also visited, are very large
indeed; on one of the stumps they have made
a platform for dancing, and a 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 large tenn
pie. not in very good architectural taste
should say and an excellent theater Nor
monism doesn't seem a bad sort of thing,
hut the people are polygamists, which OF
course is very shocking; and the Gentiles of
the place are dreadfully prejudiced against
it. However. Mormon elder with whom
conversed told me he didn't think there was
Q nobler or grander set of men in the world
than Mormons and as he had been here
ever since before the massacre, as they call
1t, he must have had opportunities of judg-
ing. We crossed America by the
Pacific railway, and spent a day
at Niagara-very fine cataract-and week
in New York. America is a splendid coun-
try, with capital hotels and admirable rail
way arrangements besides which the cigars
are good; but from my observations in the
States | am fully convinced that republican
institutions won't hold water. Most of the