The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-14
CRITICAL AND WITTY OBSERNA-
TIONS OF PROF. BRIGHAM.
Clear Around the World-In Strange
Waters and Foreign Cities--Changes
Since a former tour.

lduuul ndll, IundnOu, was nlleu
with am intelligent audience Tuesday
evening to hear Professor w. T. Brig
hams account of his trip around the
world. Preceding the regular order
Professor Ingalls, played selection
on the fine memorial organ. Professor
Ilosmer introduced the speaker. He
referred to the course of lectures
adopted for Punahou during the win
ter months, and felt sure no better
man could have been found to open
the season than Mr.. Brigham. The
course of lectures. he said. would com
bine both physical and aesthetic sub
iects.
Professor Brigham was in his best
mood. He gave a general review of
his trip with no attempt at details.
He was exceedingly happy in express
sions, and his remarks were replete
with fine jokes and anecdotes. The
audience was kept in ripple of
laughter during the entire evening.
From Honolulu the speaker took
the audience first to Suva, Fiji. He
found the natives of Fiji of fine ply
sique. A feature which was at once
noticeable was their lack of the cur
iosity, which the Hawaians possess so
largely. The arrival of steamers i'm
port, even though they have but about
two a month, creates no eXcitment
and they seem to feel no concern in
them nor in new faces. The gardens
Of Fiji were about the same as those
of Honolulu, though hardly so old and
extensive. They cultivated down
proved a splendid thing for hedges.
lles-Froln Fiji the speaker went to sgd
ney, Melbourne and over TO Adelaide
The best of Sydney was its magnifi-
cent harbor. 1t was in most respects
a modern city. Melbourne had gone
down under the financial panic of
1898. 1t was not the flourisNng old
city. 1t had lost its vast business
prestige and was plainly travelling
backward. 1t was 1900 miles to Ade-
laide. There the speaker found the
Thermometer at 10 in the shade. He
was received by the curator of the
museum and taken to his beautiful
mountain retreat. There he was most
kindly treated. The place abounded
in fruits and flowers and the ther-
mometer was never above IS
From adelaide the speaker Jour
neyed by steamer to Ceylon. The trip
over was described as one of the most
pleasant voyages in all his travels.
There was a band of thirteen pieces
on board which played every day. His
account of the routine of each day on
board was highly entertaining. The
speaker was much pleased with Co
lombo.
The next section of the trip took the
audience up the Red Sea- Mr.. Brig
ham found the same slow process of
getting through the canal which pre-
vailed twenty years ago At one time
his steamer had to wait nearly two
hours on a little vessel which had
gotten in the way. Through the canal
the steamer was never more than sew
enty-tive feet from the shore. An
amusing thing was constant traffic
carried on between steerage pasSen-
gers of the steamer and the Arabs on
shore The former would throw "A
bottle. tied by a string. tashore and
draw it back full of camel's milk.
There was no cholera i'm that country
at the time and large numbers of pas
sengers were coming up out of Egypt.
From that point the voyage was
continued across the Mediterranean
via, Messina, to Naples. At the latter
place the method of discriminating was
exceedingly crude. 1t took he passen-
gers all of two hours to get ashore.
Naples was not the filthy city il is so
often represented to be. In fact. the
speaker found it model of cleanli-
ness, with handsome, well kept
streets.
Crhe speaker visited the famous
aquarium at Naples. As this was
principal point in his trip the audi
ence regretted very much that he did
not enter fully into the subject All
hope that he viii find occasion i'm the
near future to deliver a special lee,
ture on the aquarium itself.)
From Naples the speaker visited
Rome, Vienna, cities of Germany and
Paris. He tried to enthuse over st.
Peters and other attractions at Rome.
but could not. The "smell of san
City was too strong. Vienna
charmed him very much. There he