The Portland daily press., 1898-09-29

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real live fish with wings. 1t flew fright
out of the water and fell on the deck and
died, and an officer picked 1t up and put
it in basin of water, and it had blue
wings. Was it not wonderful
20 July.-Guam. Ladrone Islands. -
has happened. The Spanish are gone,
Governor General and all The forts are
abandoned and the Spanish flag hauled
| down. At daybreak I was on the bridge
| and land could be seen on either hand.
| On our left was the island of GUIANA
long island, with no mountains in sight.
II looked like promontory with precipi-
| tous sides. I cannot tell you the peculiar
| feeling that comes over one when sighting
land after long voyage. 1t was twenty
! two days ago that we let Honolulu.
| Grad ually 1t grew brighter and the sun
appeared, dissipating the shadows from
the land and bringing into prominence
the brilliant green foliage. 1t was many
miles away when first smelled land.
You know my nose is pretty acute as a
good DOCTORS nose should be, and such a
smell 1t was perfume in which dis
| tinctly smelled lsmons and lilies and
warm moist earth-such perfume as one
finds in greenhouses. Gradually we drew
near the harbor of San Luis D'Apra
| which contains the forts Through the
spy glass one of these fort could be seen in
| the middle of the harbor. No flag was
| flying, although our own colors futtered
| in the breeze. A sail boat could be seen
heading for the ship, an audacious thing
surely, in the enemy's country. The
Captains gig and the whale-boat were
called away, Mr.. Beatty in one with
| bucyS to mark the channel.
| M r. Fechtler in the other to reconoitre
and if necessary, to demand the surrender
of the place. There we're stacks of arms
In both boats. The secondary battery
men stood at their guns; the rest of us
expected at every instant the call to "Gen-
eral Quarters The shore boat drew
nearer; the sail was furled, and the mast
| unshipped. Then man who looked like
half breed Spaniard stood up in the
stern sheets and taking off his hat, re-
specially bowed. The boat was allowed
to come alongside and the Spaniard to
come aboard. He then told US Spanish
sovereignty was at an end; that the
Charleston with the first transports had
stopped here, fired three shots;the garrison
of fifty-ou men had oapitulated; and
that all these as we'll as the Governor
General had been carried off as prisoners
of war. A Spanish paymaster only was
left; that Captain Glass after the Spanish
colors had been hauled down, hoisted the
salute the flag, The natives knew moth
ing of the war till the Charleston an
nounced it with the boom Of cannon.
They had naturally been much excited,
but after months consideration, were
now reconciled and.,rather pleased at idea
of living under the protection of Uncle
Sam. They had no American flag, bat
wished one to be left and carekeeper ap.
pointed from their number to see that 1T
was properly hoisted. how much of this
story is true. you probably know now,
| better than I. All that can vouch for
is that no Spanish flag is to be seen and
the forts appear to be abandoned They
| are poor, ANTICIPATED structures and ap-
pear to be made of stookades and adobe.
| But very few houses can be seen from
the ship and these are mostly matched
huts. The natives swarm about In shore
toats They have lazy, Spanish look
about them; polite, inoffensive ssand gen.
Al e ccl,u nd ho1f
among them, trader. who has lived in
Chicago and who does most of the talk
Ling In English for them. Many under
stand, however, a few words of English
which they have picked up from occas-
ional whalers who call here. The second
expedition called here and stopped inside
the barber, but did not enter. We did,
and are now mooredsside by side to the
Brutus which, with much putting of steam
is disgorging some of her coal into our
bunkers
"a July, Sunday.-Dr. Rogers has gone
ashore and I am left in charge of things
medical. 1t is warm and suitry, scarcely
ripple on the sea. The long coral reef
which bounds the harbor can be seen as
w
at Honolulu, line of emerald green
stretching GUS into purple sea. On the
horizon can be seen two or three showers
and at one point water-spout. The
captain has given the officers the use of his
bridge, to be out Of the way somewhat of
the coal dust, and, there, use of his
bridge under the awning with an indiffer-
emit book and an excellent Manila cigar,
I have spent. the afternoon, looking out at
intervals on this tropical sea and distant
headlands and dreaming as usual, not of
the book but of home.
26 July, 1898. AT sea.-We sailed again
yesterday afternoon and are heading for
San Bernadino straits in the Philippine
islands. The weather has changed, low
flying clouds and rain all day long. Every
thing is being made secure, for this is the
region of dreaded typhoon of the China
seas.
got ashore yesteray for two hours and
I improved the opportunity by taking a