The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-21

Holy Land, Egypt ana SoutLeih
rope is interesting at all times, but
when events of worldwide import are
happening in sequence coincident with
YOUR visits the interest attached 10
such a trip is itensified manlIolo'
This was the case with the voyage tax
en- last spring by Mrs. Mary Gum, VINO
has recently retured to Honolulu, and
the story of her journey is an inter
esting one.
The start was made last February
the White Star liner Arabic sailing
with a large number of interesting
people from all over the Union on
seventy days tour, especially chartered
for the trip. From the slush and
SHOWS of the East the liner sailed d.
rect for Madeira, the island Of sun
s.tine and flowers, from where few
Gays ago a shipload of people put out
bound for Hawaii. This island resem-
bles those of Hawaii very closely in
climate and physical appearance. IL
is volcanic in origin, and conditions
among the people outside of the coast
resorts are most primitive. Transpor-
tation is wholly by means of bullock
carts, and in the interior the roads are
fearfully and wonderfully made. The
hotels along the coast are, on the 9TH
er hand, very fine and are patronized
by hosts of tourists from the Eastern
States.
From Madeira the party steamed to
Cadiz, the 5000 year-old city. From
here, after a short journey by train,
Seville was visited, the party having
their first view of one of the great
cathedrals OF the world, that of Sc
vile, being one of the handsomest and
richest Gothic churches of Christen-
DOM Other interesting places visited
by the sightseers included the Alham-
bra. at Granada, and the Notifications
OF Gibraltar, the strongest fortress in
the world.
From Spain the party crossed the
straits to Algeciras, at that time the
center of the worlds diplomatic stage,
where the ENJOYS of France and Ger
many clashed and Europe trembled in
the dread of a great war. Thence to
Algiers, once the home of cOrsairs and
now the abiding place of tourists and
invalids. Algiers is a beautiful city,
its white houses and palaces on a slop-
ing shore forming a never-to-be-for-
gotten picture.
Malta, the British naval base, was
approached when the town was cele-
brating a fete day, something in the
nature of the Honolulu floral parade,
in which the gaily-clad peasants were
in themselves a sight for the visitors.
Ordinarily Malta is not favorite place
for American tourists, the resident
British having imported more than
their share of the home eXclusiveness
into the Mediterranean.
Athens was worked up into enthu-
siasm over the coming Olympic games,
the party being unfortunate in having
to leave before the time when their
flag flew, time after time, for the vic
tories of their countrymen over the
pick of the worlds athletes. In Ath-
ems the travellers obtained their first
glimpse of royalty, the Crown Prince
of Greece being pointed out to them on
their return from the Temple of Jupi-
ter. Most of them found the Prince
more interesting than the temple.
The Arabic next threaded it's way
through the Grecian archipelago and
through the Dardanelles to CONSTANT
nople. In the city of the Turks three
days were spent, days of dirt and dogs,
flies and smells. The necessity for
taking off ones shoes before entering
the Mosque of St. Sophia, the largest
in the world, was appreciated. The
beautiful Turkish carpets with which
the mosque floor was covered would
soon be destroyed with the mud car
RED in by the feet of the thousands
of the faithful otherwise. So huge is
this mosque that eight schools hold
their sessions inside the one great room
without the loudly chanted lessons of
one class disturbing in any way any
of the others.
Up the Bosporus, the towering banks
of which are reminders of the Pail
sades of the Hudson, a few hours sail
ing brought the vessel to the Black
Sea. whose inky waters readily sug-
gest the name. On the way up the
ship was stopped opposite the Robert
College, controlled by Americans, and
the girls boarded the steamer and Wis
tied and sang for the passengers. The
fees of one of these girls are paid by
the Womans Board of the Central
Union Church.
"A feature OF the landscape along the
Bosporus is the number of fortifica-
tons lining the banks. In fact. on the
Asia side there are practically no 9th
er buildings than these little forts ev
cry few hundred feet.
At smyrna the first camel trains
We're seen and the first attempts of the
voyagers to ride the desert travellers
We're productive of many amusing
scenes. "a cd
would be hit on the knees and in re-
Spouse would sprawl himself down on
the sand. Then the rider, a woman
generally, would perch on his back,
taking firm grasp on the hump. The
signal to rise would be given, and with
many grunts the camel would hump
one shoulder up. then the other, rock
ing his rider from one side to the other
So NinlantlN. that alrl,ast ;,,!.a k,I,. sLe