The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-05

crowd of excited people, it was heard
 at that time, and not one movement
 was made by the captain to assist
 them. They made no movement to get
 out of our way as they had q seine in
 tow, and as no one was on the lookout
 on our vessel they were not seen by us
 until too late. We had not gone far
 before we felt shock as of a heavy
 head sea; there was quite spanking
 breeze at that time but not enough to
 produce scuh a shock as we occasional
 ly felt, and I noticed there was quite
 splash under the bow during the
 shock. Being busy at the time, did
 not pay much attention to it until e
 moment after, seeing part of the crew
 were perched on the lee rail looking at something in the water, curiosity
 prompted me to follow suit, and be-
 held two finback whales about thirty or forty feet long, Changing their position from the bow to the side they
 would run along side of us for awhile below the surface of the water, proba-
 bly, with the intention of rubbing the
 barnacles off of their sides and every few minutes would come to the surface to breathe. The first mate fired chunks of coal at their two orifices for breathing at the top of their head, and once he hit his mark. The second
 mate fired his revolver into one of them, but they appeared to take no mo- tice of it. They soon after separated from us. Proceeding on our voyage
 one night during my watch below l
 was awakened by the cry of man over | board; all hands on deck. It seems | that several men were out on one Of the yard arms when the foot rope
 broke and one of them was precipita-
 ted into the liquid below. When had i turned out a jolly boat had been
 manned and lowered and cast adrift, | and soon after the man was rescued, 1 boat hoisted into position and we were speeding on our way again. Arriving off the mouth of the Jang Tse KiangWe | took aboard a pilot long before we could see land, and the water from that river colored the sea very yellow in | deed, so that it hardly seemed like | water. The first pilot took us to the | mouth of Shanghai river where we came to anchor; then the second pilot I weighed anchor, and there being seve-
 ral Chinese junks anchored near by us, | when the pilot manipulated our ship
 around into position he carried away l the masts of one of the junks and colH- | ded with one or two others and thought
 no more about 1t than though he had
 broken off the branch of a tree Get l ting into position we sailed up the 1 Shanghai river, and passing rice fields l and low rnarshy ground we first came | to a settlement of the American consul 1 then the English consul settlement
 and then the French consul settlement
 where we came to anchor. Adjoining
 the French settlement and above is the | city of Shanghai walled in, and in or der to enter it one is obliged to pass l through a gateway. Just outside of 1 the gateway we're grouped number
 of old crippled beggars. On top of the | wall about fifteen feet high, beside the
 gate at that time were two pirates heads placed as warning to evil doers
 In the river opposite the city of Shang- | hai were grouped together numerous l Chinese junks; so thick were they that l their masts resembled a forest. Inside of the walls of Shanghai the streets ! are very narrow, and no vehicles were used, only palanquins carried by cool | ies. Most all the transferring is done | by men with yokes, articles suspended | from either end The stores in the 1 streets resemble booths in a market. I visited the Josh-house where an inn
 mense Idol was placed and devotees prostrated themselves before it. Not classifying myself under that head I | rather ignored the habit. There is 8 l beautiful park that I visited which I
 really would like to see again Then our guide ushered us into a Chinese | theater for a few moments, where we | became the greatest attraction. It l formed an amphi-theater, there being no roof over the enclosure and no
 seats; the audience was standing The stage was raised about seven or l eight feet from the ground beside the
 entrance, and no curtains were used. I Not appreciating their performance, we stayed only few moments, while I -