Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-07-27
\ TRIP HALF AROUND THE
WORLD.
A Spicy Letter from DR.. Nicely on His
Journey to New Zealand.
(C6ntinued from last aceek.)


the finest ships that visits "Frisco".
We had about 200 on board, and
there was large crowd, four or five
hundred people, at the wharf to see
friends and ship leave. 1t was rather
a sad separation with some; indeed
all seemed to realize and feel what it
was to leave friends, home, and ma
tive land. / thought the pangs of
leaving home, with me, were thing
of the past, but as the old boat 81
lently, surely and swiftly sped out
upon the mighty waters, l stood up
on the deck, not alone, but with
many others, bidding "home, sweet
home" and my native land, Young
America, farewell. | felt such love
thrObbing in my bosom for my own
country as l had never dreamed of,
and thought oh, if | could only give
that which lay before me for that
which l had left behind, / would be
content and happy. AS l stood in
deep meditation, unconscious of all
around me, watching the blue out
lines of home die away in the dim
distance, the luminary of day shed its
last rays upon the blue ocean and
sank down into the deep sea in the
far West, enshrouding all in dark
ness and gloom. All was sadness,
even the roar Of the restless waters
seemed to reverberate the last fd1e-
aVeN While thus studying was
summoned by the doleful sound of
the gong to the salon, to which place
retired and was seated at a table
ladened with the most delicious food.
was rather slow to commence eat
ing, however | took bite or two, but
the thought of home or something
else had taken my appetite, and sud-
denly a notion struck me that | ought
to go up on deck. | had a hint, l
suppose, was the cause of this sudden
notion. The hint didn't just knock
me down, but it staggered me, any
way thought it would be best for
me and perhaps for the boat too, if l
would go very close to the guard on
deck. So | made a break, and a
break it was, for the very first thing
was to knock two or three dishes off
the opposite table. | cleared myself
and started again, but my start was
most too much, for | could not stop
until | had run into the next table,
very nearly overturning some old,
large, tieshy lady, and how she did
talk. Don't ask me what she said.
l started again and this time landed
at the foot of the stairs, and pulling
up by the railing, | got out of the
door and tumbled over to the side OF
the vessel and hung my head over
the banisters, and really / could
hardly tell you what transpired for
the next five days; more than that ]
bad pretty much the same expert.
ence as Mark Twain on his first ocean
vOyage-the first day or two l was
afraid / would die, the next few days
l was afraid wouldn't die, and so il
went for about seven days. But we
q say we because there was not 8
passenger and but few of the crew
who were not very sick,) had JUS
cause for being sick, for the water:
between Frisco" and Honolulu
were rougher than was ever known
before, so said the captain, and thu
ship surgeon said he had Travelled
100000 miles on the water in last foul
years, but had never seen the watel
so rough and the wind blow so hard
Just think, the motion of the vesse
was so great that the ship doctor wa
sick himself; little boy was thrown
from his berth, dislocating his shoul
der, and | tell you / had to swing OF
to the railing of my berth, as sick a
| was, with death grip almost t
keep from being thrown out. Their,
was a mighty sea which came across
the front half of the vessel, carrying
away the hatchway, the water poured
into the hull and luggage room, al
most submerging everything. Thi
was not known by the passengers I'm
til about a week afterwards, whel
they were allowed to go into thei
trunks. They discovered, grea
many of them, that their clOthe
were completely ruined. One gentle
man told me his wife lost two dresse
which cost $3.50 each, also anothe
gentleman from London who had hi
family, - in all, with two maids
had the clothes of ten trunks CON
pletely ruined. The salt water whe
it poured into the vessel soaked int
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