The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13
PHILIPPINE LETTER.
Chas. McNulty, Of the goth Kansas Volun-
teers, Writes Another interesting Let
ter to His Parents at Thayer.
OUT ON THE OCEAN. !
Nov. 26. 1898 {

OUT ON THE OCEAN. !
Nov. 26, 1898.
Dear folks as home:-We will be in
Manila the night of the Goth or the
morning of the 30th; and we will all
be very glad of it, too. 1t has been a
very tiresome trip. / have just got
out of the hospital, having been con-
fined over two weeks with malaria
fever. L became sick just after we
left Honolulu, but am all right now.
They gave me quinine in abundance
every day, so that now l can hardly
hear myself think. My temperature
was up to los for three-or four days.
There are eleven soldiers in the hospi-
tai now; two pretty bad cases, one is
typhoid fever.
Murphy, George Lowrance and F.
Long are all well; none of them has
been sick. We passed the Farrilan
Island Wednesday. 1t is of volcanic
origin. There was plenty of smoke
but we couldn't see any fire. The is
land is very small; about all it con
sists of is the volcano. We also pass
ed in sight Of the Ladrone Islands.
We have not seen ship since we left
Honolulu except the one that carried
the Tennessee regiment. And they
passed us as if we were tied to some
stationary object. We-Aave the slow
est ship of the lot.
We have had very nice weather, not
storm of any kind. They only allow
US two pints of water day and it is
nearly hot; and the boys do not relish
it very we'll. Nearly all of us sleep
out on the deck, it is too hot down in
the hold. The ship hands rouse US up
at q, M, so they can scrub the deck.
We will be in sight of land some time
Monday.
Wednesday, Nov, 80. We'll, 1 will
try and write a little more today.
We were in storm on the 9th and
2Sth. We are now in the China Sea
and it is as smooth as glass. We have
been in sight Of the Philippine Is
lands ever since yesterday morning.
We can see the island of Luzon, on
which Manila is situated, and will en-.
ter the bay sometime this afternoon.
/ understand we will have to unload
with small boats, as the harbor is not
deep enough for ship the size Of ours
to get to the wharf.
1 am feeling first rate again. You
ought to have seen the big waves dur
ing the stor2i. 1t was great fun to
see them break over the ship and
catch the boys. They have the most
of our stuff up on deck this morn
ing ready to unload. 1t is nice
and cool here, just as pleasant as
can be, but guess it will be pretty hot
when we get on shore. We are all
getting tired Of the ocean; just think,
we have been on the water ever since
the 9th of October, except the four
days we were in Honolulu.
We arrived here at about l O'Clock
this morning. We are anchored out
here in the bay about two miles from
the city, and it is reported we will
not land for two weeks at the least.
That news did not please us at all.
We are tired of this old ship. 1t has
been forty-fiye days since we left the
United States, and two weeks more
on board will make us all good and
tired. The city looks from here just
like an American town. We can look
through a glass and see some fine
looking buildings. We can see Dewey's
fleet from here, and also the Spanish
fleet that was sunk. They are raising
some of the vessels. l am very anx-
iOus to get on shore.
got two letters from you yester-
day; they we're written October 26th,
the day before we left San Francisco
1t seems TO take a long time to get a
letter, but ten thousand miles from
home is a COOL ways.
We are still on board the ship and
do not know when We viii get or.
Everything Is quiet here and pretty