Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-07
ON AN OCEAN. VOYAGE.
It is Then Camera Beccme es of Rare
 Value.

There is nothll1s more interesting to < returned wanderer than the spells of his camera. Every scene is lived over again Ship-board acquaintances are old famil- jar friends and many lonely hour is turned into season of delight
 A collection of views taken while on a winters cruise on the Pacific is never ending pleasure. The first picture, of course, is of the leave-taking. The ugly old pier in San Francisco made beautiful by groups of smiling friends, though here and there is a fearful one and in one corner a group from the Salvation Army kneeling in prayer for the little band of sisters going forever, perhaps, to strange land. The next is snap of the officers of the boat lined up for our benefit, fne-looking group. The cap-I tain's laughing eyes look ready for any joke and the chief engineer is as solemn as If the whole of the universe rested upon him. Perhaps he is tired of assuring a dozen people one after the other that he will be careful and not allow the boilers to burst. Thoughtful of him, isn't it. You would not have expected 1t.
 Goodness, this is picture, myriads of black heads and shiny bodies leaping about In the water. Honolulu boys div ing for coins.
 Honolulu looks like play place. nestled as 1t is at the base of the noun tains. The picture does not show the glorious opal tints of the bay nor the rainbow that hangs over the pali. These are pictures worth looking at pretty, dark-eyed girls fairly smothered in wreaths of flowers. They are holding great strings of them, for they we'll know every passenger on the ship must buy a fragrant lei This is the beach. Waikiki Why, it looks like some of the fashionable Florida or California re- sorts. There is as fine hotel as you would see anywhere, long pier. lovely cottages and perfect beach. Here Is An interesting one, the surf riding, two natives in the ends of the canoe with paddles in their hands and a couple of laughing girls with their stalwart es- corts all ready for the start It takes no little courage to trust yourself to that long, extremely slender boat and ride on the crest of wave dashing in at the rate of an express train. Here is one of only strip of sea. but at the bottom are the words passing the equator" The equator, as we learned at school. is an imaginary line. No wonder we could not see It.
 Plenty of snaps now at the passengers. Evidently a drowsy afternoon, a row of steamer chairs, each occupant taking nap some heads hanging on one side,, here mouth open to the point of dis location. Now the games. What in the world are they about, men lying all about the deck What would those at home say of dignifed fathers and uncles playing fighting cocks and jumping about on their knees?
 Here is the most beautiful harbor in the South Seas Pago Pago, in Samoa. It looks like a stage set for grand opera. The foreground is a mass of small boats and laughing natives, while back are verdure-covered mountains and fringes of tiny huts.
 Auckland, New Zealand, is next The harbor is a fine one and the city is high above the shore, where the pier is cov- cred with people to see the mail boat come in. It is nice and Englishy, but hardly picturesque
 Al couple of snaps at some boats rac- Ing us, waving handherchiefs and fly. ing hats add to the excitement
 Beautiful Sydney-a fairyland lying beyond the crags that guard her harbor. Lawns and fragrant gardens slope to tho waters edge, and crafts of all nations dot the bay.
 Thus do the sights and sounds of that great water way the Pacific dwell for. ever in memory's field