The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29

or ana the pilot stepped INTO II from
a rope ladder that had been let down
the side of the ship.
Great hOcls OF seagulls followed US,
and every time anything was emptied
from the kitchen, they dashed at it.
and fought and caekled.
AT p. m. I took the young lady to
her room, and she did not reappear un-
til the following evening, when the sea
was much smoother. I was sick, but
managed to stagger about until five
o'clock when L went to bed with my
clothes on. The sea is always rough
two days out of San Francisco, but they
tell US the next five days to Honolulu
viii be very pleasant.
During the night the wind blew fierce
~, and not one passenger out OF ten ap-
peared at dinner; about midnight big
wave washed over the Tower deck and
flooded some of the rooms.
There is an fndescribable smell about
a ship that brings about sea sickness.
Take a Holland herring that has been
picked in salt two or three years, fry
it in rancid butter. and the smell given
off in the cooking will give you an idea
of what I mean. That is, I think it
would, for at home I have never known
any one to fry Holland herring in
rancid butter. In addition to this smell,
there is an Odor in the staterOoms that
is intensely disagreeable The state
rooms are very clean, and this ship is
ton Of sea air, paint and pine.
A ship at sea has two motions: a pitch
and roll, and these continue until the
voyage ends; Their is never moment
when these motions cease. They are
never violent. except. when the screw
comes out of the water and this hap
pens only when the weather is exceed
ingly rough. Going to sea may be com
pared with spending several days in
swing with q double motion. After
time you lose consciousness of the mo-
ton, and are no longer sick.
This-Sunday, November 5-morning
got out of bed at $50. I had slept a
good deal, but was very tired of being
in bed. When I went on deck, daylight
was just appearing. I stumbled into the
smoking room, and determined to
smoke. but was soon as sick as ever,
and went out on deck to get the fresh
air. Here I found a lot of Cinnamon
scrubbing the decks. I determined to
throw the cigar away, but was befud-
died, like a man under the influence Of
Opiates. and instead of throwing the
cigar away, threw my hat over the rail
into the sea. 1t took a fiip-fop on top
of an immense wave, and disappeared.
Whoever finds It, may have it. Then
[ determined to go back to my room,
and look for a cap that had been pack
ed in my trunk. But the trunk was
under the bed, and troublesome to get
at, so I resolved to go to bed, instead.
When you are in bed, and sea sick,
your bed seems to fall out from under
you: gently, but you seem to be just
above it, chasing it. Then when the
ship starts upward, you float upward,
just above your bed. When you lose
this sensation, you are no longer sea-
sick. I noticed, also, that at a certain
place on the downward motion, I was
also gently shaken three or four times.
Then away down in the ship was the
constant beating of the engines: CHUG,
chug: CHUG, chug: the downward
stroke a little heavier than the upward
stroke.
My steward is a Chinaman, and like
him, but he cannot coax me to eat: the
first five meals on board I ate nothing,
save an orange and a bowl of soup. I
heard in my room somehow, that had
been assigned a seat at the captains
table. but did not see it until Monday
morning.
Occasionally I would get out Of bed,
and stagger over to No. 2, where Mattel
was worse than I was. She said she
was able to sleep a good deal, and the
stewardess was giving her every posi-
bic attention.
At 5 o'clock this afternoon, while
standing at the rail. she surprised me
by appearing on deck. We walked about
until after dark, and had bowl of soup
on deck. I kept mine but she didn't.
took her to her room at $50, but I
lounged about the smoking room until
nearly ten. feeling miserable.
I am "at" myself this morning.
Tuesday, November 6, and, in company
with the young lady, appeared in the
dining room for the first time. The
other passengers looked at US in an
amused way, as if they would say:
We'll they are the worst!" And I
think we were; I think we were the
last to appear. The steward did not
know US when we appeared and we
He consulted his list. and we found
we had been assigned to the captain s
table. Nos. rs and 70.
The sea is very calm, as was pre-
dicted for the second day out, and all
the passengers are on deck, loahng
about in the lazy way common to
travellers at sea. On the forward
Storage deck are hundreds of Jap
anese passengers, and the cabin pas
sengers lounge about on the two decks
above, and watch them a good deal.
The costumes worn by the women in
/ THE Mikado' are very pretty, but the
costumes worn by the Japanese Wo-
men of the lower class, are ugly and
dirty, as are the women wearing them.
On the rear steerage deck are hun
dreds Of Chinese passengers. They
seem to be eating most of the time.
A half dozen of them sit around a
board on which has been placed a big
pan of rice; every man has a bowl and
two chop sticks. Filling his bowl from
the pan, he proceeds to shovel the rice
into his mouth. On the board in the
center, there is a large bowl fun of
meat chopped into squares, and Oc-
casionally the Chinese take a piece of
meat, dexterously lifting it from the
the bowl to their board in the center.
and before being eaten, the squares of