Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-26
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Precisely o98 miles from the Ga
dess Of Liberty aud her uplifted torch
lies San Salvador. tho fiftle bland
where Columbus made his iirst land
ing in the New World. Some sacri-
legious Yankee Of later days has dub
bed i Waiting Island, " but Tor our
selves, readers mine, let US stand by
the ancient name conferred BY thu
great discoverer as he knelt under
the shadow Of the cross
Passing this historic bit 81 land.
whose fash light may b seen far over
the ocean, a run Of eighty miles brinor
n close 70 the revolving beacon a.
Bird Rock. Like others or the Baha-
ma group Except IIayti). this suaIl
island Il owned BY England and COW
erned from Nassau, the revenue {som
i being barely sufficient to support IL
lighthouse And thus it Is, By bits Of
territory scattered all around the
globe, that the favorite boast Of BIZ
tain = true, Upon her domains the
sun never sets"
A few hours later we reach For
tune Island, at which point II the
weather be favorable, letters NAV be
put of, TO be afterward picked up "
some northward bound steamer Of the
Atlas or Pacific Mail lines. But mo-
body IS advised to pin his faith On the
reliability OF this postal service Ia conn
munlcations Of Importance. such. for
example, as tardy proposal to your
sweetheart or words Of reconcilistion
TO . one time friend The chance.
however. brings blessed relief to those
who are suffering the first panes 81
homesickneas, even though the 6asty
love messages never reach their desti-
nation. Letters sent in this way 20
without stamps, ship mail being al
lowed to pass free in the United States.
to the other end Of the line. where
double postage IS collected. Two boat
loads OF Jamaica negroes came rowing
alongside by the dim light Of q cres.
cent moon, and the engine suddenly
stopped, a. if the throbbing heart Of
the ship stood still with anxiety lest
the precious budget OF letters be lost IN
its perilous transit to the tossing bark
below.
About thirty miles beyond Fortune
Island the nodding OF palms that
fringe the shore OF Jamaica NAV be
seen, Through glass darby" if you
happen TO reach the place on clear
day in the passage between that island
and the western end of Cuba. None
need TO be told when the Caribbean
sea is entered, for the fact IS at once
emphatically attested BY the bolster
GUS waves The faces Of our neigh
bors grow pale and paler, then blue,
then CHASTITY gray; the nautical crank;
the dirtatious Spaniard; the patriotic
Englishmau and American who had
been warding of this same emergency
BY imbibing no end OF champagne.
even those who had oftenest asserted
they were never, never sick at sea. =
stood not upon the order of going, and
in less time than it takes to tell It the
deck was comparatively deserted.
Then that sound that is SO familiar to
sea goers, that word that is the same
in all languages, and is always given
with rising infection of more or less
intensity pronounced u-r-r-a-o-o-o-p)
is heard on every hand When din
ner is on, racks having been put on the
tables TO prevent the dishes from fly
ing across the cabin, the a-r-r-o-o-o-p rs
are loudest, as if the organs Of smell
were somehow in collision with Nep-
tunes stomach pump-causing all the
comnopent parts Of the ships gener-
Gus menu for week past to rise in re-
view before the stricken sufferer, as
the sins OF dying man are said to do.
L But nobody ever dies of seasickness,
though its victims may wish them
selves thousand leagues below. Its
surprising how the first glimpse Of
land acts as curative. The moment
: Manzanillo Island heaves into view,
| the most helpless and hopeless OF an
hour before begin to bestir Themselves
, and presently appear upon deck. And
here we are at last, humping against
: the dock at AspinwalL Fannie b
Ward in ST. Louis Republic.