Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

clothes than any other nation | have ever
seen, and its picturesque characters will en-
able my amera to give you some good repre-
sentations of the anatomy of the human
frame as it exists among this nation of the
Mongolians.
THE PACIFIC OCEAN
Is virtually different from the Atlantic, and
Pacific ocean travel offers almost as many
new things as one of the countries Of Europe.
When you step on the deck of an Atlantic
ship You are in England. As soon as you
land your baggage in the state room of a Pa
cllic steamer you are in China. The ships
are manned entirely by Cinnamon with the
exception of the chief officers, and you drop
into the land of the celestials the moment you
lose sight of San Francisco. The Storage
passengers are all Chinese. Your food is
cooked by Chinese cooks and your rooms are
cared for by white-gowned, Acknowledged men
in pigtails. The walters, the sailors and the
coal beavers are Cinnamon, and on the
Gaelic the European officers did not number
over a dozen. watched the sailors closely
and Captain Pearnc, who is one of the oldest
captains on the Pacific ocean, tells me they
make better seamen than the English or the
American. They are conscientious in their
work and do not shirk They never talk
back and if they swear it is in their own Ian
guage. They never get drunk and the only
time they grumble is when their rice is not of
the best quality.
CHINESE SAILORS
wear a dress VIII ich is a cross between that Of
the American Chinese washerwoman and the
pure celestial. 1t is extremely light and con-
sists as n rule Of but two garments. These
are a wide, shirt-like gown and a pair Of
pantaloons, which are as full as those Of u
Iouaye and which flap loosely about their
yellow-skinned legs. Some OF them wear
shoes and some Of them do not, and the skin
of their feet is of the dark, rich bronze of
their faces. They have sailors caps, which
tit closely down above their almond eyes, and
each one has a big knife, which he carries in
a case attached TO the center of the back of
his waist band and resting, as it were, on the
small of his back. Their chief food is rice
and they use chop-sticks in eating it. They
get so cents a day and consider themselves
well paid. 1t costs about
TEN CENTS A DAY
to feed a Chinese Storage passenger and il
costs a { hinaman $25 to pay his passage from
San Francisco TO Hong Kong. Notwith-
standing the immigration laws more return to
America than go away from it, and this ship
carried over a thousand during its last voy-
age. The companies which ship them to
America engage to deliver them dead or alive
back into China, and the result is that if a
Chinaman dies on ship board his body is
never sewed up and cast into the sea, except
in cases of small pox or. cholera, but il must
be embalmed and carried on TO China. We
had two deaths before we reached Yoho.
hama, and the doctor who embalmed the
bodies got sl2 apiece for doing so. This Is
the regular charge on all the Pacific steam
ers, and the embalming fees amount to quite
an item when you have q tho usand or so Chi,
namen on board.
LIFE on A STEAMER.
The Pacific steamers must carry much
larger supplies than the Atlantic. When a
steamer starts out from San Francisco to
Yokohama it has 300 tons Of coal, and it is
provisioned for a six months voyage. Our
ship carried live sheep for mutton, and the
Chinese butchers killed these from time to
time. 1t carried also ffty-foar cows 10 a
dairy in Hong Kong, and these supplied us
with fresh milk. Two calves were born on
the trip, and the daily excursions to see the