The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-05
STORIES OF MANY CLIMBS
TRATELs or AN OLD NEJV HApBN CITIZEN AND ms ADVENTURES.

CITIZEN AND ms ADVENTURES.
 Incidents of Voyage to China in the TO's
 A Sailors Idea of Hong Kong and
 Other Chinese Cities at That Time
 Among the Gold Seekers in the West
 Indian Life and Customs-Interestine
 Experiences.
 The following interesting extracts are from the advance sheets of a book of travels about to be published by q gentleman of this city, who made a voyage to China in the days when such a voyage was considerable more of a rarity than it is at the present time. Some of the sheets relating to the voyage, and also to sojourn in the western part of our own country in the 7O's while it was yet wild section, follow:
 Reefed topsails and not cloud to be seen on this treacherous Indean, ocean; waves in other sections of the ocean were mere pigmies to those seen there during that blow. Four or five nights the watch below were called up to help handle the sail. On the 4th, when the storm had abated some, we tried to celebrate, but what a celebra- tion; one could not stand on deck without holding on to g. belaying pin or something else, and we tried to march fore and aft with a musl5et at right shoulder arms; surely it must have been a laughable sight seeing us mak- ing the attempt, as the line of march was planned for celebrating by the Of ficers. Pausing a moment between the surges of the ship and waiting for an opportunity to let go of one belaying pin to grasp another farther beyond, while the water was swashing back and forth on the deck from scupper to scupper; it must have been a grand spectacle to a reviewer. We had two six-pound cannon aboard to announce to them in that far off latitude that a declaration of independence was once declared, but am afraid no one heard it outside of our ship, In the evening which was the coldest we had, as ii was then winter there, we set fire to an empty tar barrel fastened to the end of a plank and the plank showed out from the side and fastened. Thus end ed my first and last Fourth of July eel ebration in the winter. The next day during a, thunder storm the lightning struck the main topsail sheet and glanced overheard, inflicting no dam age whatever; and a man was stand ing close by the sheet at the time and felt no shock whatever. Proceeding north we were visited by hurricane about in the latitude of Madagascar but being too far east to get the full force of it, sustained no damage ex- cepting to loose our long boat suspend ed from boats davits. It was caused by a neglect to mouse the forward sis ter-hook A larger wave than usual Tapped up and raised the forward part of the long boat and opened the sister, hooks so that the boat dropped down and the headway of the ship together with the force of the subsequent waves, tore out the other fastening SC that we had to contribute to the de- mands of the Indian ocean. Not many weeks after that it seemed quite a contrast from the stormy weather of the past, when approaching to the lee ward and passing some of the small islands near Java to smell the fra grance from them four or five miles away, and the light, bal1ny air begins here At the extreme western end ot Java, then called Anje Point, we came to an anchor two or three miles off shore, and soon had numerous native Malay visitors aboard wishing to sell joggery (native sugar., tamarinds, ba- nj n nn1 1Nf monkeys, Java sparrows and whatnot The Malays are not overburdened with clothing and wear turbans on thei, heads; their teeth are very dark, being stained by chewing beetlenut, which understand will make an old tobacco chewer sick to chew, it being so much stronger. On the shore could be seer nicely laid out cocoanut palms and oth- CT trees, and understood from those that went ashore that there was ia nous banyan tree that covered many acres. That tree, cocoanut palms, the very earth on which they grew, and 1T fact Anje Point, is now no more, hay ing since been swallowed up by ar eartbquake as well as other small is. lands in that vicinity, and new island: created. We took in supply of water there, also as well provisions, bu such water, one would think it a mix. ture of half and half of milk and wat CT. Having loaded with supplies wt passed through the Straits of Sunds northward, and subsequently, whilt passing through the Straits of Banca almost out of sight of land, Sumatra on our port beam and Banca Island or our starboard beam, we came to a sud den stop. We drew thirty feet of wa ter and had met with a mud bank, and all the cursing of the captain at tht man heaving the lead at the time die not bring her off again; we were fast For a week of strenuous efforts made by relieving the bow of the vessel O one of her anchors; carrying a kedgt anchor way astern and heaving on i occasionally would not budge her unti a favorable squall came, and setting some of her sail she slid off nicely While stuck on the mud we had severa