The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-26

! thedral in the town, which is also very
! old and rich in adornment.
The governors palace is a very large
stone building, and it was there Ma
poleon lived during his occupation of
Malta. There is a cathedral fourteen
miles away which marks the place
where Paul preached after he was
shipWrecked off the island. A number
/ of Maltese women wear a garb not I'M
/ like that of nun. 1t is said that 100
years ago when the city was beseged
with women all had their hair cut, and
decided that for 100 years the robe
should be worn. The time has Just ex-
PRED, but some women continue to
wear them. There are no Maltese cats
on the island except those imported
from Sicily, but there are a number
OF Maltese dogs, small and white, like
| the French poodle. We sailed from
the harb0r in the evening, and after a
quiet passage, meeting no ships, we
dropped anchor in the bay of Port
SAID, just at the entrance of the canal
We passed monument erected to
Ferdinand de Lesseps, recently fin
lshed. The trip was somewhat more
quiet as the life of the party, Repre-
sentative Joy of Missouri, was called
nome from Malta on account of sick
ness. AS soon as we had dropped an
chor we learned that the place was
quarantined, and that if we went
ashore we would probably have to wait
in quarantine in Manila. Accordingly
Captain Grant and two other officers
went ashore and the American consul
visited the ship. From the harbor we
could see that the homes of conSuls
and ministers were built quite close to
the waters edge. a few steamers of
the North German Lloyd and German
and English and Portuguese vessels
We're at anchor near us. The pilot came
aboard, the special search-light was
put on and we began the voyage
through the canal.
1t was very impressive, pleasing
experience. The banks looked like
stone walls, and the searchlight on the
bow cast the rays across the canal and
on the desert on both sides The canal
is just wide enough for two vessels to
pass, although the one going south
must tie up on the left side to permit
the other one to pass. During the night
we passed the gunboat Marietta and
two tramp steamers, and in the morn
ing passed an English battleship in
tow. We arrived at Iskmalia, midway
through the canal, at a. M, and
dropped anchor in the lake, which
forms a part of the canal.
y number of our passengers took a
trip to Cairo by rail- In the evening l
drove around the town. 1t is a small
town and has a few good hotels:
American trees grow along two or three
principal streets and numerous date
trees grow in the yards. The private
homes are surrounded by stone walls
six feet high The town is surrounded |
by a stone wall and a canal of fresh |
water which runs from the Nile. 1t was
built during the construction of the !
Suez canal
The railroad to Cairo is 100 miles in
length. and the fare is $780, first-class. !
There is a narrow guage street car line. |
but it is used only in the day time. !
French, Arabs, English and Italian are |
the predominating inhabitants. We !
sailed from Ishmalia Aug. at $3.50 p. |
m, after passing two passenger ships. |
We arrived at Suez, the end of the |
canal, at 10 p. m. In the lake at Suez !
there was a French transport and sew |
eral smaller vessels. Many chains of |
desolate mountains enclosed the bay. i
Arabs came aboard to sell their wares, |
and we left Suez Aug. at IL a. m. and |
passed into the Gulf of Suez and then
into the Red Sea-