The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-12-31

look cot, blanket and rubber coat
and slept on the deck and had ,
much better rest than / had the
first night in my hot state room.
This morning about $3.50 o'clock
we sighted land to orr lei,, which
we were inforned wa. the I-lsad
OF San Salvador-the lnud first
sighted by Columbus, as all schoOl
boys well know. The coast of this
island looNed very rough, although
we could uOt tell much about it as
we were no closer than 10 or Is
miles
About I0O'eIOck to-day we sight
Ell II sailiu.: vessel on our 81 arboald,
or right, side. 1t was long dis
lance off, but by looking through a
glass We could distinguish the
sails. Shortly afterwards We sight |
ed another sail on our port and in \
front. This schooner was two
masied and came within about two
miles Of us. 1t was evidently a
coaster and was trying to make lis
way back 10 its Island home, but
WAS making slow headwav against
the wind. A sailing vessel with
all sails spread certainly isn pretty
sight, hut had rather look at one
than to be on one, as lhev seem to
b too much at The mercy OF the
winds. We also sighted three
mast steam ship off to our light
goi g north. This was rather
large vessel and came so near our
ship that we could see her hull.
The nex1 thing that attracted
, our attention was The top of light
house away in front and 10 our left,
then the land came into view.
, The light house is located at the
end Of Crooked Island on Bird
r Rock. We went within about s
, miles of this and the Island, the
light house and large steamer
anchored near could be plainly
distinguished and pretty view it
presented.
The next land we passed was
Fortune Island. We went within
two miles of this beautiful little
Island. We could plainly distingu-
= ish the houses of little village on
the coast near the center. The
= name of this town, we are told, is
= Alvin. 1t was here we saw the
' first palm trees. Just at the point
: of this island another large steam
ship was anchored.
We have to "tear ourselves away
from all of these sights to 60 to
. supper, as eating is one of the
things one never neglects on ship
board if he can help himself as a
;, vacant chair at table always causes
remarks about sea sickness and
no one wants to give up until he
= is compelled to do SO.
After supper we came out on
" deck and looked ahead where the
: bright light of a light house could
" plainly be seen in the distance.
y This is located on Castle Island we
y are told and we will pass within a
few miles of it soon all of the Is
" lands named above belong to the
Bahama group, which if / mistak
!" ., not, belongs to the British.
1t may be of interest to your
readers to know that the first
u twenty four hours out we Travelled
y 800 miles and the second 500. /
70 cannot tell you how far we will
= travel this twenty-four hours until
: in the morning.
- Tomorrow morning when we
awake we will see the Eastern
= coast of Cuba, which Island will
- probably be the home of the Fourth
for some time.
:" This has been the most interest
=. ing day out and tonight / feel az
well as have felt since starting
although last night before going tt
. bed / felt as though before morning
. l should be in the hospital. l hops
=, to escape altogether now that
have went thus far.
:. There is piano in our ship
=. cabin and while number are sit
=. ting around writing, one of the
boys is playing the violin, one tn
. piano and another the bango 81
IS that we are having some excellen
y. music. Sitting here it hardly seem
-, possible that we are out on tn,
ocean, but rather in some nice par
lor. The only difference is tn
10 steady roll of the ship and the con
- tinual throb of the mighty en-
gines below. AS l sit here man.
-, new, and to me interesting thought
~ ~ come troopiug through my mind
- but havn't time to write then
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