Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-03-02
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We passed out Of the gulf Of Alden
I through the straits Of Babel Mandeo
/ into the Red Sea- Those straits are
called s.the Gate Of Tears" by some-by
the sailors "the Gate of He'll" We
have the coast Of Arabia on one slde
and Africa on the other for ABOUT l,oOO
miles. We reach Suez, after short
walt, get into the the canal, which IS
50 geographical or about one hundred
statute miles long. We pass through
this wonderful work In seventeen hours,
the quickest passage ever made 0y a
/ shin OF this line or size. We land at
Port Said and take on 900 tons Of coal
in two hours and fOity-hve minutes.
! Arabs carry il in baskets containing
about one bushel each. They work
with 4 will and keep up wonderful
noise. reminding me very much OF
negroes coaling on the Mississippi river
steamers. We see camels at different
points on the canal and dragomen ready
20 escort travellers across the desert.
We take in the whole town OF Port
Said: see thousands of Egyptians,
and areaglad to get out OF place
Swarming with Ouch miserable
beggars. We see dozens Of donkeys
Saddled and the jabbering natives IN
sisting on our riding over the town on
donkey. They call in broken English
almost every traveller "McFurguson"-
from Mark Twain. Many of them call
out the names Of their donkeys that
they wish you 10 hire. Here is Billy
Gladstone, Sir Henry Parks; here is
Madam Langtry, Mary Anderson
Madam Kitty O'Shay, etc. The Suez
Canal has cost two hundred millions OF
dollars, and for long time paid an an
nual dividend of % per cent. Lately
they have reduced the tolls and pay
dividend OF 10 per cent on the capitai
stock. At times there are dozen
or y more ships In the canal
at once. Royal mail ships have the
precedence, and other ships 60 TO the
side and let them pass. The toll OF this
ship FOR passing through the canal was
e., 400 or about twelve thousand DOL
lars. There is much that l would ike
20 write about places pointed out to us,
OF which we have read and heard from
our youth, such as Mount Sinai, the
spot or place where the children Oh
Israel crossed the Red Sea and where
Pharaoh and his host were covered with
the returning waters OF thegSea, ETC.,
etc, | would also like TO write ABOUT
the cannibal negroes on the coast OF
Africa, and what a sin it is TO let them
remain there, when there is so much
demand for that kind OF labor In
Queensland and in the Northern Terri
tory OF South Australia. l VIII, now
ever. give you before closing this letter
description Of this vessel, and on reach
ing Naples this evening drop II in the
Office This ship is about two years ola
CLYDE built-452 feet long, $3.50 tons
burthen; has every modern improve
ment, saloon, elegant and taStefully
furnished, and potted flowers, etc.;
eight hundred electric lights. with can
dle-pOwer from to 16 each. She has
eleven miles OF electric wire; she has
five boilers, each boiler weighs tfty-hve
tons. She has now on board something
over 4. 600 tons Of freight, consisting OF
wool, hides. ores, and 300 tons OF
Australian butter in her refrigerator.
On her next voyage she will have the
largest cargo of apples ever shipped
from the Colonies.
A Company in Tasmania has contract
ed 10 ship three hundred thousand
boxes containing one bushel each.
There is Chief and eight
assistant engineers, forty firemen, coal
beavers, trimmers, and oil men. She
burns sixty-f five tons of Welsh coal and
ninety tons of Australian coal every
twenty-fOur hours. officers and crew
number 1sS. On her last voyage out
she had SIS passengers-making total
of zoo souls on board. Provisions con-
sumed. as stated to me by the Purser,
%, 600 pounds Of meat, 1900 pounds oil
fresh fish, 40 tons Of vegetables, 5000
pounds weight of tea, coffee and cocoa,
6. 600 bottles Of wine, beer and spirits,
eight hundred dozen bottles OF Ariated
water, ten thousand lemons, three
thousand eight hundred pounds OF but
ter, one hundred and sixty gallons OF
condensed milk, seventy tons OF ice, be-
sides canned fruits and salt fish not
mentioned. One Of this line Of steamers
ltdNte LluQOu 4OE AuoAA oii1 VfSAJ WV
weeks. The p. 81 O. line have larger
number Of vessels and send one out
every two weeks. This gives weekly
service &c the colonies. Your readers
can form no idea of the magnitude OF
the trade. 1t is a pleasant thing TO
meet vessels when you have been out at
sea for number of days. We met the
Oroya, OF this line, in the Gulf OF Alden
passed within a hundred yards
of her-and yesterday we met
the Orazaha a little less
than 1000 miles from Naples, quarter
OF a mile distant, she signaled us that
the John Elder, one Of this companY's
boats, had been lost. We have met sew
eral Of the British India Company's yes
sells We will leave Naples tonight AID
run to Gibralter, thence TO Plymouth.
II we have good weather in crossing the
Bay of BIScay and up the English Chan
mel we will be tied up at the Tilbury
Docks, in London, in five days less than
schedule time, which is forty-two days,