The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-22
A DAY IN HARBOR
Nagasaki Reached on Bnperofs
Birthday.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS ON SHOW
Friends Found Who ReCiprocate
kindnesses Received lin
Honolulu.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS ON SHOW
Especial Correspondence.

Especial correspondence.
EDITOR P. c. Ave left Hong |
Kong, October %, some three hours aft
er the advertised time of departure. |
We were delayed by additional freight, |
enormous logs of teakwoOd to be taken
to shipbuilding yard in Nagasaki;
and hundreds of sacks of sugar, to be
taken on for Japanese use, as the COM
mon dirty sugar of native manufacture
no longer suits the increasingly fas-
tidious taste of that people. We
steamed along within sight of the bar
rem islands that stud the China coast
in this section. With the Monsoon
wind, dead ahead, we had somewhat
rough time, passing through the For
mosa Straits. The sky was lowery and
| the air bleak, but We worried along,
and fortunately reached Annoy in time
| to take on board additional cargo,
and get out again into the open sea
before night-fall.
We found Annoy situated very much
like Macao, a split of land running
out into a bay, and so forming a shell
tered harbor We took a sampan and
landed in Kulangsu, an island on
which are the foreign residences. We
found nothing strange in their appear
ance, nothing different. from other
such residential portions of the cities
in these Chinese ports. There was an
unfinished air about the place, Cor
Shanghai is the more important entire
pot and Annoy has but little business
comparatively. Formosa tea is brought
oyer to this port for shipment. 1t was
$50 tons of this Formosa tea that we
took on board, and two or three pas
sengers going to the races in Shanghai.
We did not visit at all the Chinese
city of Annoy, which has the reputa-
ton of being the filthiest in all China.
Infectious diseases prevail at all sea-
sons, and as we did not care to have
small poX, or dysentery, or the bubOnic
plague, or beri-beri, we thought dis
cretion the better part of valor, and
did not tempt fate by recklessly run
ming into danger.
Every port seems to have it's own
peculiar style of sampan, and some
distinctive articles of dress. The Annoy
boatmen wore a blue cotton turban,
and their boats were painted blue,
which color seems to be a favorite
tint with the olive brown Chinaman.
The junks did not seem to differ much
from those in other ports, and however
rude their construction, they seem to be
managed with great skill. With their
mat sails, and many roped pulling,
they would seem awkward things to
handle, but somehow the Chinaman
manages to "get there"-"all the
same"
We were not long in making the run
from Annoy to Woo-Sung, the anchor
age off Shanghai reaching our destina-
ton at 2:39 p. m. on Sunday. Here we
had to wait for the tug to come out to
meet us, but instead of taking her up
to the city as we had hoped, notices
were posted that she would leave
Shanghai at 10 a. m. 1t seems that race
will begin at 2 p. m. Monday, and the
Shanghai office evidently wanted to get
the vessel off before that time. The
hotels were reported to be full, and
reluctantly we decided that it would
not pay to take the risk of gowing UP
to Shanghai, two hours trip, to re-
turn so early. 1t was disappointment
to others too who would have liked
to get a sight of Shanghai, but the
Of hn CT
be subordinated to the pleasure of the
clerks in the o. and o. Office. So we
pocketed our disappointment, and
rocked and rolled at the anchorage
The Library was shut and the Doctor
gone, and not a newspaper or maya
zine on board; so that our resources
for occupation were very limited, and
took the time to write-not about
Shanghai and its sights, but how we
have been "Shanghied" out of oul
rights as passengers and sightseers
and newspaper correspondents.
We had smooth passage across
the China Sea and came into Nagasak
harbor before daylight. 1t so happened
that the day of our arrival. No
vember 3, was the Emperor's birthday
and consequently public holi.
day. No business could be done, anG
as We were to take on 1000 tons OF
coal for the trip to San Francisco the
vessel could not leave till p. m. Of
the second day This gave us holiday
on shore, which we were glad to en-
joy. But we found that there was tt
be no public demonstration as the
Court was in mourning for the Dow.
ager Empress.
The shops were not closed, but every
street was lined with the national flae
of this Land of the Rising Sum-" a rec
disk on a white ground, floating from
bamboo poles, the joints painted alter
nately black and white, and the pole
capped with a gilded ball. We were
fortunate in having friends ashore
whom we had entertained at Honolulu
Honolulu hospitality has a wide repu
/ tation through the Far East for cor
diality and friendship, and our Maya
saki friends were bound to let us Sc,
that such hospitality was appreciated
and would be reciprocated There wa