The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-01

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ly flowers of all kinds palms, bananas
and cocoanut trees. AS you know this
is great place for tea and there are
| Americans who own tea plantations
here. Coffee and spices are raised plen.
tifully on the island also. But the
prettieSt place | saw and which
makes Colombo famous, were the Gin
namon gardens, in which are all sorts
of tropical plants and trees, such as
ebony, mahogany cocoanut, palm, ba-
mana, bamboo, etc. | had the pleas
ure of going into magnificent muse
um also, which was the most interest
ing place l ever saw. 1t contained
Il species of all the different products.
animals, reptiles, fish and everything
else which the island produces. l saw
there the carcasses of great whales
and sharks, elephants, stuffed tigers,
lions, etc. There were models in wax
of the wild men of the island which
were so natural looking l thought at
first they were human beings in glass
caSseS. There were a great many
statues of Buddha also. We were an
chOred just inside the break-water
which was about mile long and the
the sea dashing against it sometimes
threw the water $50 feet high and
when the sun was shining it made a
perfect rainbow, being a beautiful
sight.
Our next stop was at Singapore,
situated on the island to that name,
whose people are mostly Chinese and
Japanese and of course, a great
many English are there. You would
have thought you were in China could
you have gone into the Chinese quar-
ters. The houses are built of tiling
of all colOrs and there is a picture of
dragon on nearly every housetop, the
dragon is made, in mosaic manner, of
the different colored tiles. There are
hundreds of opium dens and the "Hea-
then Chinee" can be seen lying
around everywhere asleep from the
effects of the drug. | saw one little
railroad at Singapore but it did not
compare with dummy that was in
Memphis when | was child. The
rikisha was popular here and pulled
by japanese.
Leaving Singapore we sailed for
Manila, where we laid in the harbor
for about ten days before being
brought to CacereS. We were not
Allowed to go ashore, so can give you
no description of Manila. Neuva
lJaeeFes is on the seutherfsz of the
island of Luzon. 1t is one of the
principal towns on the island. The
native houses are nearly all made of
bamboo, and are called shacks. There
are some good buildings owned by
the Spanish, but these are now Occu-
pied by the Americans as quarters,
storerooms, etc. There are no side
walks and we are in the mud nearly
all the time, as it rains here a great
deal There are no public lights here.
There are no forms of amusement
here except cock-fighting, which is
indulged in on Sundays and feast
days. People grieve very much when
one of their chickens are killed.
Nearly all the stores are owned by
the Chinese and when they get their
hands on piece of money it stops
circulating. There are two or three
| hlltTlCdIl SdlUOllo ucIC. ltoC dIc
undoubtedly the tilthiest people i'm
agnable. Pig pens, chickens and
people are often seen in one house
together. They can make anything
from a chicken coop to palace with
a bolO and rever use nail. 1t is
. surprising how much work they can
do with one of these instruments,
which is large piece of steel made
into blade. Some of the tribes
fight with them, though most of
them engaged in active warfare use
rifles.
Most of the children under six
years go entirely naked. The men
and women wear just as few clothes
as possible. The women have a
dress which seems to me is straight
piece of cloth that they wrap around
themselves and pin up some how,
apparently as tight as they can pull
it. They have a curious way OF
washing clothes over here. Instead
of wash board, they have rock OF
a block of wood. and upon this they
beat the clothes numerically. You
can bet the buttons fly, and the veal
on the garments is awful. They dt
all their washing on the river bank
charging SC apiece for everything
except handkerchiefs and socks
which are two for five. These peO
. pie are very religious and all arr
J Roman Catholics. They are yer!
devout, going to church morning ant
! evening, regardless Of anything, ant
, when they pass church they neve
] fail to lift their hats.
/ You ought to see some OF the thing
| the natives eat. Grasshoppers ar
considered dainty and delicious an
] they eat all they can catch; some dr.
I them before eating, others eat ther
raw. l have seen baskets full G
i prasshoppers In the market for sale
/ They are great fish eaters, but wi
i not touch it until it begins to decay
*These people are catching o
j to the English language very rapid,
Il They study aloud to keep from goin
to sleep. l have transferre
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