Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-04
Jenson's Travels.


tie good weather and smooth sea con.
tnuing. About shutdown we passed /
East Cape
Monday December 5o,h. Early In the |
morning we were passing Mercury Bay |
aud the island OF the same name; at I1 ]
". m. we rounded Cape Colville, AMI at /
1880 p m. We arrived safely at Auckland, |
where we met three Elders George i. I
Burnham, Schuyler H. White and Joseph /
i. Derbidgcl who had just arrived from /
zion as missionaries 10 the AusiDlas.an I.
Mission. Some OF the brethren put un /
az our Grey Street room while Elder
Gardner and myself and three other III.
dcrs engaged board and lodging with "a
Nlfs. DIuuclley, who keeps a private
boarding house on upper Queen Street.
Since Elder Gardner and Iet Auck and
eight weeks before we had travelled
s52l miles. namely 1900 miles by
steamer, s55 miles by rail, rs miles 10y
vehicles, 100 miles on horseback ana foI
miles on loot. We have visited nine
districts of the AustralasIan mission and
held conferences, or two days meetings
in seven oil them. We have worked up
to the programme which We prepared
before starting in every particular, aud
have not missed single connection
with any Of our many aud varied modes
O. cunyeyanCcs ON which we relied Tor
transportation. We have also been im
mlnently blessed iu our labOrs Almost
invariably We have good me tinps and
| our associations with the Elders aud
SAINTS In the different districts aud
| branches have as rule been Of the
most p casaut and agrc able nature. ]
/ have also been successful 300 obtaining
! historical data and information Tor
| GhuTcn history, and been the means OF
introducing certain reluims in record
| keeping on general puucp.Cs, We also
! feel 10 duty bound to acknowledge boz
| public manner the courtesy OF the Hud.
cart, Parker s. CO., which gave us both
| lfCc transportation on their steamers
| from Auckland 20 Dunedin and back,
and for other couftcsigs extended TO our
/ Elders and the Saints, who have tray
eicd 10 vessels Of the company
Tuesday, December SYST spent the
/ last day ui 1905 IN our upper room ON
/ Queen Street. IN Auckland, preparing
correspondence Tor tie DEsEur NEWs.
aud finishing my private journal Tor
| 1885. 3D. summarizing I hui that since
li,it home Boo May last ! have Travelled
| 90 ono miles, namely iu.Sg5 mile, by wa.
ter aud l,tgt Boy lana. OF the water
travel iO,4g5 miles made 100 steamships,
| go 10 a steam launch, .15 100 sthuUugn
aud los in small boats. The land trans.
] pUrlauuu was i6gs miles by raj, 452 10y
] vehicles, g5g on horseback aud $50 ON
! loot Su,u lett Salt Lake City
] have spoken in pu1.ic los times,
! namely thirty five times 90 Hawai-,
J seven In Tonga. eleven in Samoa, forty.
nine boz Sew Zealand and three on board
steamers. ! have spoken through in.
tefprclcis seventy times aud without
| thirty i've times, have been
/ immnrntly successful iu my historical
/ llburs, and being assisted by the clerks
| Of the various missions visited and by
| other competent Elders, ] have been
able to gather a vast amount Of iniOr.
nation aud Church history data iu
short time, My acquaintance with the
native race lnhabIung Polynesia, have
been OF a pleasant nature, ana the
kindness and hospitality which they
have shown me and my tfayc log com.
panions will always be remembered
The Maous are perhaps superior 10 any
| OF their knslolks who inhabit the
smaller lslangF, believe ! con write
little volume on my own experience
and associations with them aud the iu-
hauitanls OF Samoa, Tonga and Hawaii.
| While our Elders, who are HhufinE
among the Europeans ln New Zealand
would undoubtedly stafyc 20 death,
should they rely upon the hospitality OF
the people tor their sustcnance, those
who travel among the Maong are a. a
rule well fed aud taken care Of Of
course the food and accommodation Is
not always OF the best kind. they are
H.NH D..
the people have, and no more could be
expected Il D. also a pleasing Tact TO
/ record that OF all the Elders who have
laJurcd among the Mt0rls during the
past twelve years, not one of them b.
known to have tfansgtusscd or com
. mittCd himself with woman. Aud this
has become one Of the distinctive iel.
lures OF the VI fmon missionary; Do being
so different 20 the experience OF &c
Maons with other white men who have
! come among them, Elder Bartlett, Of
the Bay ol Islands district, clated an
instance where Mlaou family was
visited by two Of our missionaries, and
stopped over night wuen the man OF the
house was away from home. "A neigh.
boring woman, q uOn.member, who
/ happened to call IN aud vino saw the
Elders there remarked to the woman OF
the house how she dared keep these
men In her house while ner husband was
away. "Nou don't understand" was
the reply, Thee are Mormon mission.
ares They are not ike other men, but
more ike Gods, No greater insult
could be offered them than for a woman
to make uncnaste advances to them"
have YET three more Maori districts
TO visit, namely, the Waiksto, Hauraki
and Tauranga, Then go to lahiu,
and will return by way Of New T. aland
10 return to Australia, thence 70 to
Europe, via the Suez canal, expecting
To visit Palestine and Egypt on the
way, (Fnisn.l ANDREW lENsoS.
| AUCKLAND, New Zealand, December,
syst 1895
Driving Club MatineeS.