The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-04-23

certs almost every evening from until
0, and dancing from until II, our mu-
sic consisting Of a piano, two Ylolins
and a cornet. The other evening we
had a fancy dress ball-quite swell at
fair BY shutting in the sides of the
deck with canvas and decorating with
flags We had quite handsome ball
room.
The sea is so smooth all through the
Indian ocean that there is scarcely any
motion of the ship felt, and it is so
warm and pleasant that almost every
one Is in white cotton suits and caps
and canvas shoes. The crew are near
ly all Asiatics and their dark skins,
bare legs, short white trousers, gay
colored frocks and turbans make quite
an oriental picture.
This is our ships first voyage. She
was put on exhibition at Sydney and
Melbourne. Nearly two thousand peo-
pie paid sixpence each to see her. The
receipts went to charity.
We left Sydney, New South Wales,
on the 18th of February, Melbourne,
Victoria, on the Goth, and Adelaide
South Australia, on the oath. We lay
at Adelaide two days. 1t Is small
town, but very pretty; we'll laid out
with fine wide streets, paved well and
supplied with cars drawn by horses,
The cars are built with two stories,
like the London cars. The upper story
is protected from the sun, but open at
the sides. They are so easy of access
by winding stairs that it is the favorite
place for ladies and children. 1t was
so intensely hot that did not walk
about much; 95 in the shade. l spoke
to storekeeper about it, and he said
was quite cool to what it was a few
lays before, when 1t was ITO in the
shade. I went ashore the next day.
But what change! l took ride of
| five miles on the street car, and was
glad to walk all the way back to get
warm. I always thought New Haven
was very changeable, but this makes
me think New Haven a pretty good
place after all.
| There are some very fine buildings
here, and evidences of wealth and
prosperity in the numerous handsome
residences and parks. Although like
everywhere 1 have been, found the
people complaining of the lack Of bust
ness and money. 1 found a better feel
ing in Auckland, New Zealand, than
anywhere. 1t is accounted for by there
having been large yield of gold from
the mines last year, which makes a
wonderful difference to them.
After taking aboard the malls, and
many more passengers, amongst them
being the governor of New Zealand and
family, Lord Glasgow, who Is going to
the queens jubilee, we steamed out
into the Indian Ocean for Albany
Western Australia. We only stayed
there one day to take on and put off the
mail, and took on more passengers.
1t is a small place close to the waters
edge; only 1900 population, but it has
several fine buildings and is laid out
for large increase. There are great
many going into Western Australia
from the other colonies, on account of
the rich gold discoveries there lately;
but it is a dreadful climate; 100 in the
shade sometimes. / forgot to mention
that at Adelaide I saw the finest fruit
that l have ever seen, not excepting
California even; large punches of fine
grapes at one penny per pound. The
passengers bought large quantity.
The Australians are turning their at
tention to making wine, and are all
ready putting a large quantity on the
| market.
We left Albany on the 9th for our
longest stretch, without stopping, over
1900 miles to Columbo, on the shores
of India. We arrived there March 9th,
after a lovely but monotonous passage.
Then the scene changed; it was East
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the sea; the harbor being shut in by a
substantial stone wall about three
quarters of a mile long with a railroad
on the top, and a light house on the
end. The harbor is horseshoe shaped,
with the open front to the sea- and the
buildings of the town are all around
the semi-circle. There is a large num-
Der of steamers of all nations in the
harbor most of them surrounded with
the native catamaran boats, manned
by naked Indians, with a rag tied
around their loins, yelling and shouting
at the top of their voices to the pas
sengers to buy their wares or to
throw over coin for them, so that they
may dive for 1t. 1t is busy scene,
and at night it is a perfect fairy scene,
to see the rows of lights on the numer-
GUS steamers and the hundreds Of cata-
marans each with a light, moving in
all directions, and the lights of the
town, and the different landing places,
and the balmy heat of the atmosphere,
combine to make it scene never to be
forgotten.
A French man-of-war came in imme-
diately after us and fired a salute. AS
the ship stayed here three days, l went
ashore and stayed at a hotel by the
sea; big barn of a place with very
poor table, but lots of style; So a day,
and little extras made 1t 81. 1t was
too hot to walk in the middle of the
day, so I had to take a carriage drawn
by native instead of horse. They
trot along at the rate of about five
miles an hour very nicely; it is quite
the style here. Sixpence an hour is the
cost. There is also a substantial fort
and barracks ] saw the soldiers play
ing cricket and football in spite of the
heat. Three days there were quite
enough for me-
Three hours before our ship was to
leave, 1 was delighted to see the Stars
and Stripes coming into the harbor; it