The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-23
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boys almost drownded themselves try
ing to get an orange out of
a tub of water with their mouth. We
had nice display of fire works at night
and you will have to imagine the effect
of the colored fire on the wages for /
can't describe it, only to say it was in
discribably beautiful. This ended the
most notable Fodrth of July 1 ever
spent, all things considered.
July 5-This day opened with nov
city. About o'clock a. m. a storm
came up frou the south east. We have
our port hole open for ventilation and
the wind had free access to our cabin.
sleep on an upper bunk and the wind
has full play on me. / was uncovered
with just my shirt on and the wind
blew so cold that it woke me up SILVER
ing. l got under, took blankets before
was comfortable. The strangest
thing about it is that we are in the
latitude where oranges and bannas and
pineapples and such things grow. We
are In the torrid zone yet and it is as
comfortable as at Meridian. Many
sick reported to the hospital this morn.
ing. We had dried apples and stewed
prunes yesterday and from noon till
night the fruit lay in tin pans and
buckets and the men were poisoned by
eating it, They are not seriously i'll
yet. / was standing in my cabin look
ing out of the port hole and saw little
bird that looked like those little snipe
that fly up and down Five Mile. l
wondered where he could have come
from. l saw him light in the water
but could see no more of him. l was
watching closely ond soon another few
by and went in the water instead of OH
it and found we were in school of
flying fish. / went out on deck and
studied them. History says they do
not really fly, but they do fly. They
will raise out of the water and fly
straight or turn either way they chose,
go up or down over big wave and
they will fly from so to 200 yards. They
are from 6 to IS inches long, of bright
color on the belly and back and wings
dark. They seem to be about the shape
of the square mouth OF silver sides. All
of our old birds are gone but we have
some small white ones. l don't know
what they are. They may be land
birds as land is no more than 100 miles
off on our left so the captain says. We
will see the Leper island and the big
volcano this evening. II nothing hap
pens We will be in Honolulu tomorrow
noon. We travel about $50 in "a hours.
Not very fast, but we keep pegging
away and will get there yet.
July 6-Yesterday evening after l
had closed my journal l saw rain
storm at sea. The ocean was calm and
the rain poured down in torrents. 1t
was beautiful to see, but thought it
was waste of moisture. If it had been
on the alfalfa it seems to me it would
have done more good. This is to be a
great day for us The sky is nearly
cloudless but there is a haze in the at.
mosphere which makes the distance
lock blue. We woke up this morning
in sight of land, the first we have seen
for nine days. On the south of us are
the Leper island where none but lepers
live. 1t is rolling piece of land with
some high points on it. Looks like a
nice place 10 live, but who can tell the |
misery and heart sorrow confined on |
that island. 1 can see no trees on it.
On the north of us is a range of noun. |
tatns, rugged and rough, much like the |
Silver city mountains only not so high.
We will anchor about noon. don't
know what will be the program when
we get to Honolulu. We don't know
we are about TO land on
foreign soil or whether we have annex.
ed Hawaii and made it one of the
United States. "All things come to him
who waits" We are having fine trip
approaching Honolulu, the scenery is
nne. We pass large crater of an ex.
tinet volcano. 1t looks like the LECTURES
you see in the geography. This whole
island is volcanic. We see large Gsb
jump out of the water, sharks after
them perhaps,
We'll, we have Just come aboard of
the steamer after spending four hours
In the city of Honolulu. / am amazed
1t what have seen. We are surely in