The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-18

Jonas, don't show that face Of yours in until
that blood and go work. don let me catch you
disabling any more of help it may 60 hard with
but really goodhearted steward sought the deck above
And peace reigned again in the glory hole Evidently
br,cksey had no desire to foul Of the American
Pr1vateer as of the boys dubbed Paul after his
battle for he maintained respectful distance took
good care to keep his mouth shut AS for Jonas he
the slightest response from his closed lips He learned
his lesson and was disposed to profit by it. in all of
which Paul secretly exulted, for he naturally
peaceable ad no desire get into further en-
broiments with his shipmates. > - =
So truce declared and the wounds gradually
closed but the great fight fruitful topic of
versaon in the glory hole for weeks after To this day
the odmers tell the newly joined cockney Of the pitched
battle they once witnessed at O'Clock in the morning
between a big chap named Jonas and plucky young
American called "Yank, and when they asked which
whipped they shrug their shoulders and say, "Weil
Yank went to work that morning Jonas didn
show up on deck for three days. ~.E--.~
Cape Guardafui sighted the fifth of July-the
hrst land raised in three weeks, after of nearly
SIX thousand miles The coast line is very bold and
rugged and is dangerous that mariners give it
cry and lnhosptality few casaways escaping
their clutches. .c~
Five days later the Chimborazo passed the port of
Alden the Arabian coast the coang station for the
peninsuar and orient steamships but the
coal at Port Said, stop made. Next morning
pig steamer entered the Red Sea thru
|sizzng hot better describes the atmospheric con-
d1tlon on shipboard than any other term and if Paul
had previously wondered at the significance of the Arabic
for he gates he longer questioned it's appropriate
ness Several wrecks were sighted the to suez,
the deserted huks standing high dry on the sand
close to the African shore
Naturally enough the lad eager to get first
glimpse of the famous Suez canal that marvellous triumph
OF engineering skill which endeared the indomitabe
De Lessepsa to the French people, whose confidence in
him not the disastrous Panama venture could
entirely shake. The white stone government building
adons the entrance to the great canal closely
the details could be from the deck Of
the Chimborazo Vessels going thru are restricted to
which akes
sage particularly travel is permitted after dark
At the second station where the Chimborazo held
over night, Paul and Scully took plunge overheard
swimming from the African to the Arabian shore. But
the current strong that when they landed the
hundred yards below vessel In returning they ran
along shore until the boat lay corresponding distance
easy swim brought up alongside and hauled aboard
From one station to another the ship was attended
by young Arabs who along the sandy
chores of the canal begging backsheesh,' to obtain
which they plunged into the water whenever the pennies
were flung from the quarter deck Boys and girls any
where from 10 to H. followed the vessel on dog-trot
for hours Another feature that impressed Paul was
number of SMALL wooden that lined the upper
banks of the canal marking the burial places of hun
dreds of aborers whose lives forfeited during
of construction It is said that the building of
the suez canal cost the lives of five thousand hui
beings.
molly crowd of natives offering all kinds of barter
awaited the steamer at Port Said which reached
early on Sunday morning Almost as soon as the
Chimboazo dropped her anchor she surrounded by
frantic lot of boatmen who yelled their wares in
execrabe English and sold alleged curios to the pas
sengers at ten times their actual value Big lighters
loaded with coal appeared, and gang of scantly
dressed felahs each provided with "couffn - willow
basket began trotting the runway leading the coal
bunkers into which the contents of their baskets
quickly dumped the procession stopping for three
hours when five hundred and sixty tons had been de-
sted in the steamers hold by the interchangeable natives
Port Said and Singapore considered the
coaling stations in the world. ~ . g.
Leaving Port Said in the afternoon, Paul soon had
his first sight of the Mediterranean Sea- thru the blue
waters of which the Chimborazo gided if her
already scented the white cliffs of England. The lights
of AeXadra were dscernble at dusk but to the lads
great regret no call was made at this most ancient Of
Mediterranean ports Past the Island of Crete where
Pulls santed namesake is said to have been wrecked
on his voyage to Rome and past the massive cone of
the Chimborazo until the Straits of Messina were en-
tered sromboi left in the and the Bay of Naples
reached at last. 49,. '-.> ',=.. - =
After magnificent night spent in the beautiful bay,
with pyrotechnic display from Vesuvius that Paul
knew made extra fine he