Smyrna times., 1888-09-19


continent when 1 discovered that the
engine on the OLympidn was made by
Harlan & HollingsWOrth, of Whining
ton. We made but ten minute stop
at Port Townsend, which is place "of
great expectations" reaching Victoria
at 6 P. NJ. Victoria is one of the
possessions of the royal dame whose
name it bears, and one of her custom
house officials inspected my trunk.
Puget Sound, over which we sailed was
rough enough to-day to send several
passengers out into the cold air.
must skip the days of my delay in |
Victoria, of which town" very Eng |
lish YOU know"-I have told you in |
previous letters; and we will start at
once on the latter part of my trip,
which was by far the most interesting.
The pen of Bayard Taylor could not
do Justice to the scenery from Victoria
to Juneau.
July 1910 P. NJ. We steamed out
from Victoria this afternoon at 1920 on
the Pacific Coast Steamship Co.'S
steamer Geo. w. Elder, which, by the
way, is not as nice a boat as they
should have for the excursion. The
steamer is filled to her full capacity
with excursiOnists, a number of whom,
| as can be seen by their trunks, are
from Philadelphia and New York. At
! 12.45, Mt Baker looms up in the dis
| tance. feel more lonely than l have
since l first started, but this feeling
does not last long, because l am soon
absorbed in the wonderful scenery.
We have left the busy world behind
US, and at least can not expect to hear
any news from home before the sixth
or seventh of August. The scenery IS
perfectly grand, and 1 have heard
several people say who have just come
from there, that it far surpasses the
Yosemite Valley. SnOw-capped noun
tails rise abruptly from the waters
edge on each side of us.
At $50 we saw our first whale,
which was probably twenty feet long.
The water at this point is two hun
dred fathoms deep. At sunset Mt.
Baker is right astern, and red rays OF
the sun produce wonderful effect
upon its snow-capped summit. Tour
lists say it excels anything they ever
saw, even Switzerland.
At 8P. NJ, we arrived at NanaimO
where there are several large Goa
mines. We walked through the ole
, town, and saw the first fort built il
=. this district by the Hudson Bay Com
/. pany, two hundred and fifty years ago
! 1t looks decidedly like an old fashioned
. wind mill, only the top is larger thai
/ the bottom,
6 When we came back to the boat
:. three young fellows, who are will
+ quite party of young people, got ou
q their banjos, and they had singing an
+ dancing on the deck, for we wer
lf especially blessed with beautiful mel
a low moonlight.
q july 19.-8.30P. Last night W
o took on two hundred and fifty tons
q coal, for which purpose we stopped
n NanaimO. There were ten three-ma
a schOoners in port, loading with COZ
for San Francisco. Before we left, "
r were visited by steam launch full
nj passengers from Alaska, and the
~ report a fine trip. At 11.3O v
= sighted the steamer herself. She hi
NJ been out from Seattle seventeen day
lie At Ills P. NJ, we reached the SeymOl
Ia Narrows, where the tides from Il
n North and South meet. The result
D a succession Of very powerful eddi
iu CuLIGuLSs L
" that it is dangerous to attempt to
rv against them for fear of being carrie
+. into one of the eddies, which nj
.er times out of ten means destructio
The consequence is that we had
ba time our arrival so as to come in
at the flood and out on the ebb tide.
on There is a difference of eighte
on feet between high and low water NAL
No A man-of-war was lost here abe
ia three years ago. The wind is a
nd blowing a gale, and everybody
rlv wrapped up and either hugging arou
a the smoke-stack or finding some sh
At tered spot. am thankful that 1 (
Rad out my overcoat at Victoria. I
ore moonlight on the snow-capped mot
iTn tains is a truly beautiful sight.
oyv july 2O.-9P. NJ. This morning
md five we reached DixOn's Entran
ON. where the Pacific gets full sweep
nm us. About three-fourths of the p;
We engers were seasick, and only alb
feet thirty-five appeared at the break
we table The captain, who, by the W
one is a very jolly and Obligiug Norweg
of about thirty-five, says that the
trance was unusually calm.
scenery remains about the same, me
ssed tains on each side covered '
last cedars. AT P. NJ, we passed an
ter dian village of about forty-fve ho
low- all frame. Quite a number of bea
1Our full cascades run from the tops of
we mountains, where they are fed by
Belt melting snow. Paths are traced d
are the mountain sides made by avalan
are which have carried everything be
vond them. We have professional pal
the and five amateur photographers
are board who are supplying themse
the with pictures of the most nOtewo
lilo scenery.