The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-26
HOMEWARD U
MR.. CREWS ON THE H0ME-STRETCH
IN HIS JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD.
Hong Kong to Aden-The Sail Through
the China Sea, the Indian Ocean and
to the Mouth of n Red Sea-Stops at
singapore, Penang, Colombia and
Adam
On the China Sea, May

OA ~ S-AA 1921 |
Editors Messenger:
This is Saturday evening and we are
sailing very smoothly along on the
China sea on the large, steady-going
ship Chusan, of the PENINSULA and
Oriental line. She is sailing under the
British flag, as almost every ship l
have seen in this part Of the world is
doing. The Tsinan, which carried me
from Manila to Hong Kong was Of
London and flying that flag also. We
are going almost a due south course
to Singapore, and the weather is as
pleasant as we could wish.
1 was up early his morning getting
ready 10 leave pretty Hong Is ing, that
city OF beautiful mountains, hills and
harbors, the home of the ~Jinrekesha,
Cooley, Chair, Sampans and, l like to
have said that conglomeratIC7 OF hu-
manity the like of which 1 have never
before seen. at noon. 1t was there, as
in Manila, so not I could hardly stand
it. 1 settled my bill of $1,000, Mexican,
with Mr.. Fcrsacca, the Portuguese
| manager of tie Connaught house, went
| arounl 10 the bank and had my Hong
Kong moEey changed to Eng ish, ted
Mr.. ]. W. Bellies and others god bye,
paid a Chinaman so cents to get me
out to the ship in the harbor, in his
! sampan, got settled down in my room
| and soon sailed away from the city I
had longed to see, but from which 1
was, for soma cause glad to get
away from. ! would not care to live
there nor in Manila. / think. l feel
that 1 am now turning my face home
ward and am glad of it.
Among the many passengers ABOARD
are DR.. and Mrs. Schmidt, of Philadel-
phia, who are touring the world; two
ladies who are returning missionaries
from China to London; n lady who
is going to Bombay to marry a gen.
tleman whom she says she has never
seen but once and three young Filipi-
nos who are on their way to London
20 study civil engineering.
This is Sunday evening and up to
moor to-day we had made $50 miles of
the LAO to Singapore and were still
running almost due south. Religious
services were by one Of the
ships officers in the dining room at
il o'clock a. m. NICE or twice during
the day the weather was threatening
and it looked like were running into
one If these dreaded and violent tor
nadoes called typhoons which happen
on this sea at about this season of the
year, but nothing serious so far. The
deck hands on this ship are black and
are M~ohammedans, 1 am told, while on
the Tsinan from Manila to Hong Kong
they were Cinnamon. Both appear to
be acceptable help.
This is Monday evning and at noon
to-day We were in latitude Ii north,
longitude 1888 east and had run 2S5
miles. There was board
practice during the day which was
very interesting. There are a few men
drilled to man a life boat on each side
of the ship n at the sound Of a keen
whistle they rush for the boats and go
through the performance of towering
them as though a man was overheard.
A snip was passed, steaminS toward
Hong Kong. The weather is very
pretty.
Tuesday evening, and the weather
and sailing fine. Had fire practice
aboard ship. There was a rapid ring
ing of the fire bell and men from near
ly all parts of the ship came rushing
on deck for the life boats and hoes
and went through the performance of
to-day was 800 miles. Longitude 1O9:07
east, latitude 1892 north. For the first
time since leaving San Francisco D
saw a whale which came near the ship.
Wednesday evening and we are now
passing on our left many small islands
and another large ship a just pass
ed us. mother run of 313 miles-mak-
ing 1,20S of the LAO, and we are now
nearing the Malay p~eninsular and
Singapore and hope to reach there
early in the morning.
Tuesday noon, n we are now in
Singapore and seeing the many sights
tiof the city. AS early as 800 o'clock
this morning land was in sight. At z
O'Clock anchor vas lowered and the
pilot came aboard and the yellow flag
went up, signifying that the ship vas
from a plague-stricken place. Soon
the health officer came aboard and the
yellow flag was hauled down, signify
ing that all on board We're we'll and
that the ship could go to the dock TO
coal and the passengers go ashore
We are now back to the ship for
tiffin, after having driven partly over
the city and called on Mr.. r. A. Mos
ley, Jr., our consul general at this port.
He was appointed from Alabama
We Will soon be sightseeing again,
and as the mail closes soon which goes
o nthis ship 1 will close this letter
with a short sketch of Singapore from
a pamphlet called East to the Vest:
singapore that great center of the
commercial and seafaring universe,
presents many attractive features. The
splendid buildings, the busy streets
ana markets, the river crowded with
Malay boats n the stream of Chi
nese, japanese, ~JavaneSe, Siamese,
Cingalese. Malays, Hindus, Parsees,
Idi'IiIS.h ATdUS ana representative of
every race and tribe of man, make
Slngapore's human panorama most ex-
citing and interesting. The Raffles
museum the botanical gardens and
the many drives around the town
pleasantly fill ones time, and there
Is an interesting thirty-mile drive,
with a short ferriage across the strait,
to n palace of the Maha-Rajah of
Johore on the mainland shore of the
Malay peninsular. Singapore is a
monument to British foresight and en-
terprise and founded by Sir Stamford
Raffles, after the fall of Napoleon had
moved Great Britain to return Java
to Holland, it has not only rivalled.
but outStripped Batavia as the tropi-
cal metropolis of the east. Although
lying nearer to the equator tina Bata-
via, Singapore, by it's fortunate posi-
ton in h straights, enjoys a much
lower temperature. People Of all ma
| tons, bound for all the remotest parts
of the globe, on business or pleasure
| bent, meet at the famous hotel for
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