The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-02-03
ON The ARABIAN SEA.
Last Stage Of Miss Alice Wishsrt's Sea
Travel on Her Journey to India.
WEATHER IS DELIGHTFULLY."- WARM.
Traverses Red Sea In Its Entire Length, gets
Glimpse Of Mt Sinai, Halts st Alden
the Hottest Town Ia the World.

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potato with spoon, threading a
needle after a race, marking a
pigs eye blind folded, &c. Be.
fore dinner Marie Weir helped
me with a Hindustani lesson; she
speaks it very we'll. Marie told
me she has two dozen cats, eigh.
teen dogs, four pet deer, and lots
of other pets. Her mother had a
pet leopard but 1t got too big and
they parted with it. Every body
is very social and there are some
exceedingly nice people aboard.
We have music every day, and
something doing all the time. We
passed Mt. Sinai last night in the
distance. Wish all my friends
were seeing all these wonderful
things with me.
S. S. "ORIENTAL," Dec. IA, 'O3,
Arabian Sea. Two hours from
Alden.
This is a very perfect day
so pleasantly warm with nice
breeze and calm sea. We reach.
ed Alden at six this morning and
the "Oriental" anchored directly
behind US when we came on deck.
l had all my packing done before
breakfast which we ate at $50,
paid our fees-awful nuisance
said our "goodbyes" and boarded
a launch which took US around to
the "Oriental" where l found my
cabin at once. And strange co.
lncident-Marie Weir and l are
cabin mates again l have been
fortunate in having nice cabins.
The rest of my party have not had
nearly so nice caoins, little and
stuffy, and far down. I had the
incest of the lot, but my Society
had to pay more for it. My berth
is by a port hole just as IN the
other steamer. This boat is not
so large, neither is it as crowded.
Mary p and l put the clothes
we didn't need in my steamer
trunk and had it put on the SIN
dia" at London for Bomb bay, TAX.
ing her trunk with just enough
clothes across the continent to
save freight; and now I've been
having a time to get my trunk out
of the hold so we can get things
back to their normal condition.
l have not suffered for the want of
clothes, but it takes more than l
had anticipated. l think l shall
enjoy this part of the voyage bet
ter than the other.
Dec. 16.-Did 1 tell you I am
learning to eat curry and lot Of
other new English dishes? How
soon one falls into new ways
This heat makes me rather Ian
guild and sleepy, but I've been
studying Hindustanl, with Marie
to correct my pronunciation
She is bright girl and thinks 1t
great fun. 1 wrote twenty-five
postal cards yesterday TO mail at
Bombay. I'm glad | put some
thin summer shirt waists in my
trunk, for since we left Port Said
it has been very warm.
Dec. 18.-One day out from
Bombay
Instead of getting into BON bay
at 10 A. NJ, as expected, to-mor.
row, we shall not reach there till
3 p. M. We had a calm sea and
charming weather ever since
Alden, but a strong head wind has
made US lose time. 1t is said the
India" and 'Oriental" are car
rying the heaviest mails they have
ever known; 1890 mail bags were
put ON at Port Said, Christmas
mails you know, and it took near
ly six hours steady work getting
it off the mail boat onto the "Or-
ieutal." We can look down the
hatchway and see them sorting
it. They have been ut it, a dozen
or more men working early and
late for five days. / saw a big
heap of paper torn into bits in one
corner, and when I asked whstit
was they said that it was parts of
packages, letters, and papers
! that had not been done up care.