Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-01-27
A Hopkinsyille Boy on the Other
Side Of the World
A Continuation Of the Letter
Written From Honolulu
Last Fall.

18th of Nov, we had fine time
during our four days there. Hon
olulu is strictly religious city.
| All business houses close at IL
o'clock at night, and on Sunday.
| 1t was sight to us to see the ma
tives come to town early in the
morning with their train of pack
mules and ponies loaded with ba-
nannas, oranges, pine apples,
grapes, cocoanuts and wood. Each
man would have IL or Is mules and
ponies, one tied behind the other,
and he would walk in front and
lead them. We left tour men in
Hospital at Honolulu two of the ar
tillery boys, two of the cavalry.
The Pennsylvania left Honolulu
twith the 51st Iowa boys on the 10th
of Nov. and the New Port came in
to port ON the morning of Nov. 10
with Gen. Miller and staff and part
of 20th Kansas regiment.
1t brought mail for us but it Will
not be opened till we get to Manila.
Honolulu has a fine band of about
so instruments. They came down
to wharf and played about two
hours for us. They played "Dixie" "
as we pulled out. There was a
great crowd at the wharf to see us
leave port.
We made a good impression on
the people during our stay in Hon
olulu The sea is quiet to night,
but a few of the boys are sea sick
again. They say we will make
the trip to Manila in 10 days. FRI
day morning. Everything calm as
can be, II or Is boys still sick, we
can't see a thing but water.
Our grub is getting pretty tough.
Saturday-Every dy is having a
big time playing games except the
few who are sea sick. The sea haa
been calm all day. We expect to
overtake the transport Penn about
Monday as we are gaining about
three knots an hour on her. /
made trade for three of us to get
our meals from the cook of the ship
from now until we get to Manila,
and we expect to live high the bal
ance of the trip. The rations fthe
''chute" are getting awful tough,
the beef is not fit to eat.
Monday Yesterday was fine
day and the water smoothe. and
the nights are fine. Moon shines
as bright as day We have not
seen anything of the Penn so far.
We are getting plenty Ito eat now
and just as good as we could want,
get coffee. tea or chocolate and ,des-
sert like boarding at hotel.
Wednesday 49, We passed over the
the meridian or international date
line last night and so we gained a
day, jumped from Monday to We'd
nesday, and some of the boys could
not see how we could do that The
sea is not so smoothe now.
Thursday 24th-The sea is ugh
and it looks like it is going to be
worse, we are in sight of transport
Penn and this is Thanksgiving
day, we had good dinner, had
turkey and chicken and Lieut., Pat
ton set up canned peaches to the
Co., and of course got my share.
We passed the Penn tonight at s
O clock.
Sunday This has been the rough
est day during our voyage. II is
impossible for a person to stand on
his feet Several waves washed
over hurricane deck and several of
the boys were scared, thinking the
ship was going down, some put on
life preseryers, and some of the Off
GERS were about as badly scared as
the boys. Two or three of the boys
| fell and hurt themselves, one boy
iell and cut cash in his head
about four inches long, he is in the
hospital now. Several times a lot
of us were on deck and the ship
would rock so that we would slide
from one side to the other and it
would be all we could do to keep