Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-11-25
Letter From the 10th Kansas.

promised that l would with you d.,
letter from Honolulu, IL ever got there
Well, that time has come at last. for ",
reached Honolulu about II o'clock las
night. The ship cast anchor out in til,
bay, till morning. and did not move i'll
to the bay till about a. nj. The trans
port Ohio, with tvs battallions of ths
First Washington regulars on board
early this morning, and beat us into til,
harbor The mail ship, Daric arrived
here Yesterday, from San Francisco, SC
we got some mail this morning. The
Dare left San Francisco Saturday. two
days after we did and beat us here half a
day. She is fine vessel and very fast
don't expect that we will get any
more mail till we get to Manila
The transport Arizona is back to Hon.
olulu again from Manila. You will
doubtless remember that the Arizona
started for Manila with load of troops
and provisions and q lot of hospital
supplies, but received orders to leave the
troops at Honolulu and take the provi-
sions and hospital supplies on to Manila.
This she did. and is back now. and will
take the troaps she left on to Manila
from here. The Arizona, Ohio, and In
dinna Tour vesseD will leave here for Ma.
Mia early next week.
believe we had as successful voyage
as has yet been made, SO far. The health
of our men is excellent, and the way we
have run over this city is 4 caution.
OF course, NE had TROUBLES OF cur
own" the first few days at sea.
thought never should get used to the
continuous roll of the vessel, but / did.
Por the first two days my stomach Kept
pace with the roll of the ship, and don't
think lost "the cadence" once. o! sea.
sickness is not 80 terrible after all. al.
though it 10 mighty disagrecable for the
time being. All the Garrett boys &C.
quilted themselves nobly. and have no
doubt but that they will he regular "old
salts" by the time we get to Manila.
Qnite number of our company did not
get sea-sick at all
We had an uneventhal voyage till we
arrived here, but We have seen enough
to-day to make up foreverything. About
8 O'Clock a. IN. Quincy Tetft, Robt. Frick'
LLOYD Curier. Victor Paxton and l
went on shore. About the first thing We
saw was the palace OF the ex-Queen,
which is now used as the state building.
We saw the room in which she held her
court and the throne on which she sat.
We hung our hats on what i suppose
ONCE was the royal hat-rack. 1t was the
most beautiful pair of antlers that one
10 ever likely to see.
cannot begin to tell VOW all that We
saw or everything that we did, SO ! will
hasten along. We also visited the old
state building, and climbed to the top OF
it. Then we strolled over the city. l
have read of beautiful places and thought
that had seen seme in San Francisco,
but | guess | never realized fully how
beautiful place could be made till saw
some Of the places here. All that wealth
and tropical climate can DO to make
place magnificent seems to have been
done here in several instances. don't
know who owns them, but il there is
any fault TO be found with thcrp, don't
think that !, or any OF the boys who |
were with me, will be the ones to do it.
All manner of trees are fouRd here.
I saw several baRyan trees, with roots
running down from almost every branch.
I saw quite a grove of beautiful cocoa
nut trees, full OF nuts. saw the date
palms with dates on them orange trees
with all sizes Of oranges; fig trees with
ripe figs; the bread fruit tree with fruit
On it; and quite large grove OF banana
trees with all manner, or, rather, sizes, OF
bananas on them.
In tact, guess saw about all there
MAS to see, though don't think / am
in the least. ! guess you
Believe ME now. when say we put the
10y in at sightseeing. We were permit
ed on shore from about 8 a. m. till Top. nj.
II is time was in my bunk and asleep,
10 will have to close for the present 1t
> quite warm tonight. but this is the
lrst time we have noticed the heat since
re started. 1t 10 not nearly so hot as /
expected 1t to be. If it is not much
worse than this at Manila. we will get
,long all right. have seen 1t lots hot
er than this in Kansas.
have not time to write ANYTHING
about the people here, this time. but
Kill try and do 90 later. Write soon.
remand yours truly,
Corr. JRssH II. HAnPsAIRE.
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks
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