The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-19
A TRIP AROUND ALASKA.
BY EDWARD BAILEY.
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inquiring now and then if anything
had been heard from the Elder, etc.
Sunday morning, no Elder, but by |
telegram it was announced that she |
would sail at P NJ on Sunday. So |
I went to church and heard a good |
sermon, and enjoyed a Sabbath
school once more before going be-
yond civilization, and at 6 P. NJ. we
were ready to 60 aboard the Elder,
but it was late in the evening when
we finally got off on our wonderful
trip to Alaska. My trunk had been
sent from the hotel when I did not
know it, and / had much ado in find
ing it and getting it checked.
Things are rather newish up this
way and 1t is we'll to see to your own
affairs yourself.
The Elder did not sail till 4 A. NJ.
of Sunday. July 18th. Itwas foggy,
and when we began to stir about in
!
accommodations of the Elder were
of the narrowest, and that we were
fairly sandwiched into her. There
were about l35 first class passengers.
Just one-third of that number might
have been comfortable, but never
entirely SO. when the births were SO
near together that fat man could
not roll over without disturbing the
one in the berth above him. To &C
commodate this whole number at
, one table, contracted as it was, could
not be thought Of, SO we had first
and second, and for part of the
voyage, third tables.
Added to all this our steward was
] often unfit for duty through inc
y briefly. But Capt. Hunter and his
. chief officers did their best to make
d us comfortable, and the voyage an
: agreeable one. We came for a
g pleasure trip and were not lightly tc
be disappointed. Many, if not most
f of our company had seen the rough
g side of life.
s And l fear it is not possible tc
show in writing what was the con
a slant Joy of the trip, nOtwithstand
O ing all its discomforts. Excepting
e in few places where the channel:
|. opened out to the broad ocean, anC
i some other places where owing K
l. the narrowness of the channel ths
II tide caused fearful eddies and whirl
pools at times, the whole voyage
}: was like sailing in a canal. Even il
2. the broadest of these places compar
J. atively landlocked the waves wer
It only like those on Lake Ontario
when the wind was strong
e AS rule we had little wind. w
It arrived at Port Townsend abou
v noon of the 29th. Here the thirt
3: man in our room, Russian prizes
e for KelIisroo, came on board. II
c. did not speak English, but caused a
Ie little trouble as the case admitte
r. of; thoughShe acted as if he feare
II his baggage might be stolen.
le I should say here that I do nc
TO certainly know that I lost anythin
by theft during the trip, thong
b. some complained that they los
ID things. It is not worth while t
le take much for fancy on the trip, III
e. less for trade with the Indians.
n. 1 may as we'll remark here tn;
r. the so-called Indians whom we sa
ry are not Indians at all, and are NJ
considered as Indians by intellige1
d. white people. They are undoub
~ eddy descendants of Japanese WI
is drifted to the continent of Amerit
pe at a greater or less distance of tin
a. ago. They have few of the chara
slf teristics of the Indians; perhal
re- none which are not the direct on
lis come of their surroundings. Wh'
their peculiar custom of givin
woman more life than was assigne
her by her Maker arose from it
by difficult to conceive.
10 But it is equally difficult
re accout for their peculiar mytholoe
ISIS making the whale, the crow, IL
ed frog and the bear and son
Ter other animals their progenito
srs and patron gods. Some child:
ar within, probably, growing out Of mi
ps- conceptions in general, and take
80, advantage of by their designir
of shamans to reduce them to servilit
IS. Such system would require no lor
te time to become fixed in the very te
he ture of their minds, being an ingnC
lc- ant and impressive people who h,
he no other and more reasonable syste
Mt. to occupy them. The disposition
IN account for everything around
NO with some reason, true or false,
mt not wanting among savages, in col
he mon with those of more pretentiol
en- to civilization, and when men 10
ms the knowledge of the true God thu
he became vain in their imaginations.
he As stated above the Elder sailed
in 4 A. NJ, and we were enveloped in f
ms most of the forenoon, rendering o.
he view of distant objects unsatisfa
,62 tory.
us About noon we reached Port Tow
MS send and tied up to the wharf. III
Tor heaviest business part of the TOW
an lies close along the water; in fa'
in part of it stands on piles in Il
of water of the bay. There are son
de, large structures of brick or wood al
rs many more are building. One sire
els runs parallel to the shore in this pa
he of the town, which is crossed
ed streets running from the wharves
uc- the bluff, which is precipice of pu
he sand about 100 feet high and near
49, perpendicular, which separates tt
1t., part of the town from the mo
I Oh oh Oh