Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-01
SOME YARNS SPUN AT SEA

week $50 tOd6y az nom, NS'EJhS
cabin passengsrstCr tie WirdWArd Islands.
Yesterday she reached 81. Kits, the hrst
s,op-iag place, and by a week from to-day.
HARM, hurricanes and other uIeomtorta-
he tbinys she will be st Trinidad. fyou
we're 20 20 down into the TrinidRds saloon
and mskinz either q port or . stArboard
tsck around the great eompanionwsy, were
70 turn 10 the right into theft rst Of a mum
Der Of small passsg sways, you would come
- the stateroom numbered 7, with port
hole for light BY day ard an electric light
for use by night. OF that state loom l
have the honor at present TO bs the occu'
nsnt II il were no. for the number OF
shoes ana slippers scattered usthe foOr'
Tor the suits Of thin clothes and thick
clothes hung up carefully on the sofa and
on the upper berth, and for the general IN
tidy appearance that l have managed a.
ready to give it, I should invite you to
5-op IN and see me. But having written
las, Fall tia, was about to start of for
a trip among the WndwArd Islands IN
search Of something to write about, and
then having got no further than Nassau
aud the south OF Cubs. felt constrained
10 keep very quiet about it this time tilI l
wss actually cH. Now, however, being
down once more in sunny lands among
the cocosnuts and oranges, and on one OF
the Islands Of tina: crop - which geogrs-
piers have been so generous in giving
names, calling them Unfortunately the
Lesser Antilles, the Caribees, and the
Winiward Islands, l have no hesitation in
saying that am of on little voyage Of dis
coyery in whss / have always beheyedto be
the most interesting part Of the Western
Hemisphere. Lstmetell you briefly Whatthe
programmes and think you viii sgreeWith
me that if We do not Gud some rare things
10 write about here il viii be the fault OF
the 5uDEhug writer, no. the want OF ma
,erisL PERHAPS / had better mention first
where aud what these islands are. If you
are fresh out OF school, of course you know,
bu, il as | rather su1peet) your head IS
older thsn that. and you have been spend.
ing toe last - or 80 years earUicg and
boarding up dollars, you msy have forgot
ten. The Wind EGrd Islands are the most
southerly portion of the West Indies-that
group Of little dots on the msp that, lying
far 10 the eastward and "suth ard Of Cuba
and the larger islands, form the eastern
boundary Of the Caribbean Sea. The
group makes almost q straight line from
north 10 south, line mora than 500 miles
long. This island Of 81. Kits, Is about in
latitude IL 30 north, or little further
sou'a than the southermost part of the
island of Jamaica Its forests are said to
be toll Of wild monkeys, and in its chief
,oRn. Basse Terre, there are many inter
esling things. But tomorrow We will see
abou: them. From here we are to 60 to
the httis island Ot Nontserrst, where the
Inhabitants. white aud black, are Of Irish
descent; aud there hope to meet, tor the
6rs; time. q dsrkey With the good rich
laue Of O'Shaughaessy or Moloney. The
doGs;sr.rals, if | may 50 call them, make
living by preparing and bottlIng line
Iaics. Then We 70 on to Antigua. DO
no, please fall into the very material error
Of prouo1nciug this name as It il spelled
Leave out the every time, and call 1t
An.tgsga Our neat stop, sitsr leaving
Antigua. viii be D0niCics. This word
gives ne chance TO play scboolmsster
again Do not cali i Dominica merely
because it Is spelled 50. If you want to
be very correct pronounce it Dom IN esk.a;
bit II sou will be satisfied with the pronan-
citation most common hsresbout VOC may
shorten IT into DJminiqle. Then We 60
on to Martinique. Of courge you know
Il slready. out whsn you eoae down here
sou zijl Re reminded OF it az every turn
l5st Martinique wss the birthplace of the
Empress Josephine | trust 20 the Mar
nnjquisas ICy 10 Jet any stranger get away
without frst driving out 10 see the house
she was born in | hope 70 see it; and If
can ind it | viii Try to tell you something
a5oaci,. Martinique belongs to the French
Government, and all its people are French,
jarkies aud all. St. Lucia is the next STOP
and | will know more about j. when We get
there for Just nov / have not the taintsst
idea Of what it is Then the great Bsrbs-
Goes, Jhs mighty Barbados The most
wonderful place as its natives think) in
the world, with its $50 square miles of sur
tacs snd its $50, 600 Of population, which
packs the people IN q triAe thicker than
they are in China. People on tbs other
islands tou, no doubt they are JEALOUSY say
the Bsr5adions described the world as d.
yidsd iCto four eontinents-Europe Asia
Africa aud Barbados All the other
Islands in this group are called the Wind.
ward Islands because they lie TO the wind
ward OF Baroadoes-for down here, in the
course Of the trades the wind blows nearly
always from the northeast. From Baroa,
does We are 70 make stride Of about 200
niles 70 the southwest. and rab the ships
side almost against the South American
Continent This We viii do in going to the
Port Of Spsin. the capital city Of the island
Of Trinidad the largest and most sousherly
island OF this group, which in some places
IS not more than Two OF three miles from
the South American coast.
The Trinidad is the crack ship Of the
QaeoSc Steamship Company, fine iron
vessel o. 1000 tons, with every appliance
toS making her passengers comfortable.
The piano is going half the time, and at
night when We get tired of watching the
moonlight play on the water, the electric
lights make it easy and pleasant to stretch
o1t on the s;steroom sofa and read. These
little comforts grow into great proportions
snen VOYAGE spreads out into q couple
Of weeks. Il is beautiful to sit on deck and
sEtch the ses, but 70 do il day after day,
with no variations, would in time become
Q trlls HOMOGENEOUS We pass very few
yessetN On Sunday, when We we're in the
Gulf StSeSm, I've entered the Stream" at
10 o'clock ia the morning and left it about
N the evening We saw two sails and one
sesuer, al bound north. There was moth |
lsSgln sight on Mocdsy sod nothing on
tuesday. On Wednesday q lsrss bark !
came Wy close to ~ and tried to signal /
u.s. bat the wind kept her signals close |
hgAlnef the gasla and 90 osuld ~ vraka l