The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05

S6ltlQg nome carrier.
have reached that point in my
journey where it is hard to tell whether
home lies to- the east or Nests it is
about as far one way as the other. We
are now within a few miles of the
equator; believe we do not cross it:
we keep little to the north. Travel
ers who cross the line for the first time
are ducked. and old Neptune comes up
the side of the ship from the sea, and
the sailors exact money with which TO
buy grog.
BY the way. that is a good sea word:
grog. 1 am sorry l have not thought
of it before.
Nearly every passenger carries a
kodak. And there is more real art in a
cheap kodak picture than in an ex-
and have had good many pictures
developed. They are excellent, and
beat all the descriptions a man can
write. I must secure q picture of the
N1issourian: only a picture viii enable
YOU to understand how amusing he is,
for his looks are as funny as his talk
AS I write this he IS seated in the
smoking room. watching the two
games of high five in progress The
look of tired disgust on his face is
worth studying. A man has just gone
over and sat down beside him. Nc
Kowi" the Missourian says BAH
spent Two QdN5 SElllii5 ltAELC anu saw
nothing but rain storm
Wednesday, December 20.
The sea is almost as smooth as glass
today. The only excitement on board is
the manufacture of a Christmas pudding
Mrs. Williamson, the Atchison girl, and
I Mrs. WiliamsOn's maid, are at work on
it. and two Indian boys are tanning them
The passengers, at q certain stage in the
manufacture of the pudding, were invited
TO stir it, and make a wish. All the pas
of
ding on Christmas day. which viii be
celebrated sea between Penang and
Islands appeared of to the left this
morning.
We are missing the Kansas winter. but
are having unreasonable hot weather that
is worse. It is so hot today that no one
is comfortable.
have just heard of a new joy in store
for me. 1 shall be compelled to undergo
/ quarantine at Port Said, because of my
visit to Bombay, as Egypt has quaran-
tined against Bombay because of the bu-
bonic plague. Ten days is the usual term
of quarantine, but as we shall have been
eight days at sea when we arrive at Port
Said, we VIII be confined only two days
A gentleman with whom / was talking
last night says the plague rarely attacks
Europeans or Americans; he has lived
through several epidemics, and only the
natives caught the disease The gentle
man also says that quarantine in this
case means nothing more serious than
stopping two days in very good quarters
on the shore of the Suez canal where
i /
learned that my informant was Sir John
Somebody have forgotten his name,
and haven't a passenger list handy
The long ocean voyages render the trip
around the world wearisome. From San
/ Francisco to Hong Kong, one month;
Hong Kong to Singapore. five days; Sing
apore to Colombo, eight days; Colombo to
/ Calcutta. four and half days; Calcutta
to Bombay Thy raiD.s a week to three
1 months owing to the time at your dis
posal. Bombay to Port Said, eight days:
1 Port Said to Marseilles. seven days and
thence to London by rail, two days: Lon
don to New York. eight days. And you
are always subject to delays. When I
arrived at Hong Kong, I found that the
! connecting steamer for India had just
/ sailed. In my case, this meant delay of
ten days and ] spent the time in trip
to Manila. At Colombo there will be an
other wait for a steamer for Calcutta.
/ could proceed to Bombay on the "Sinnla,
/ but should miss Delhi. and Benares. and
Lucknow. and all the interesting. portions
/ Of India. From Bombay. a P & o. steam
er sails once week for Europe; from
/ Port Said. a steamer of some line sails
+ for Europe nearly every day
7 do not care to come this far and miss
india which is more Interesting than
Japan or China Thousands Of books have
/ been written about india, and manv Of
I them have been written by men like Lord
/ MacauIay. and Sir Edwin Arnold. and
/ Rudyard Kipliug. Many of these books
on India are real literature The history
of our mother country. ENGLAND, has for
several centuries been intimately con-