The Republican journal., 1898-10-06
Capt. Milliken in Manila.

We are indebted to the family of Capt. S.
NJ. Milliken son of the late Hon. S. L. Mill
ken, for permission to publish the following
home letters. Everybody will be glad to
hear news Of SMELL" and all will wish him
the best of good fortunes;
On Board q. S. S. City of Rio de Janeiro
en- route to the Philippine Islands,
5000 miles from Frisco.
My DEAR MOTHER: This is Sunday even
ing, August 14th, but with you 1t IS Aug.
and thereby gained day on the western
hemisphere. Just now it is raining very
hard, so hard that every one has gone Tor
shelter below, 1t is very hot here and all
we can do is to sit around and persplre; 1t IS
impossible to do any work with ihe burning
sun beating down upon US even though we
have awnings. We are only twenty degrees
north of the equator and sailing along the
goth parallel. You will not receive this for
quite long time as we send our mail back
on the next transport leaving Manila, which
we do not reach for ten days yet. We left
Frisco on the 23d of July and we expect to
complete our long voyage on the Oath OF
August, one month and one day from the
coast of the U. S, 1t took US seven and
half days to reach Honolulu, where we had
splendid reception from the people there
Met Harold M. Sewall from Bath, Maine,
who is our minister to. the Island aud
and he seemed very pleasant and spoke
so nicely of my father, who was one OF his
best friends. Said he could tell l was his
son, as l resembled him in several ways.
We We're not introduced but he came up and
asked Inc if my name was not Mllilken
Mother dear, | never saw such delicious fruit
IN my lfe,-pineapples that need no sugar,
cocoanuts and many other fruits totally new
TO 1ne. Climbed banana tree and ate all
the yellow beauties | could safely keep
They have a much different taste from those
we have i'll the States. Honolulu IS GER
talnly one of the most beautiful cities L ever
have seen. The vegetation is 80 luxurlant
and the palms are the finest grown, Mag
nlticent drives and streets and the bathing
facilities at Waikiki are uneXceled. The
view from the Pail, a very high mountain is
unsurpassed in our country. There is
winding maCadamiZed road all the way to
the top, and to see the fertile valleys beneath
and the immense breakers from the ocean
makes one think how small we are III COM
parlson with these noble works of our Crea
tor. 1t would certainly repay a person for
travelling many miles to gaze upon the
scenes and you could easily spend day
with this subject alone. Now if Hart Wood
cock could only be there and spread his
large umbrella and sketch the different
views about this island of Oahn he would
not think Of MatinCus again, but would cap
ture all the prizes at the Boston exhibit
just think Of making long trip by water
like this, over a month. Ten Thousand miles
from home. viii add to this some every
day, for there is not very much to tell, it is
so monotonous here on shipboard and so
fearfully hot. Why the people in Honolulu
wear only necklaces, and IN Manila they have
nothing but the horizon around them, IN
othe words their birthday clothes.
August 18th. We are within seven days of
the end of our journey and provided we en-