The Springdale news., 1906-02-16
LETTER FROM CEYLON.
Louis Fritts Writes of His Voy-
 age to That Country.
Dear Arkansas Friends:

It lS impossible tor He to write to very many of you personally 50 I shall avail myself of the kindness of The News and send
 fou little account of ny where aboats through its columns. To begin with. Mrs. Fritts and I were married in Piainweli, Mich. Sept. 2o th and left immediately Tor New York. Ne made this journey by easy stages, stopping at Butlalo Niagra Falls and al- bany and ending with the day boat trip down the Hudson. We did this in order that We might not leave our own land entirely ignorant of its natural attractions and l must say that We have yet to see a grander scene than Nj agara or d more beautiful pan orama than that displayed to our view on the lordly Hudson. Sept. 26th we went on board the $. $. Gretlc and set our faces across the Atlantic Just after passing through the Narrows We met the aWilhelmder Grosser going in and about four o'clock We saw the last faint outline ol the hor- izon. From this time Tuesday, We never saw ship or land until We sighted Cape de Vincent on the Coast of Potugal a week from the following Thursday. This cape Is d bare table land jutting into the sea but 1t was as well come as though It had been the weli-tilled fields of Sunny Italy.
 Our journey across the Atlantic was uneyentful except for d good strong sol easter that struck us about mid-ocean. The waves were like mountains as they bore down on us and when all especial Iiy large ole would strike uS the spray would cover even the prom enade deck while everything for ward vas completely drenohed
 Butit was q grand sight The great wall of water would be par ted by our prov and roll back on either side in q regular whirlpool
 of foam and spray mixed with the gorgeous blues and greens of the ever changing sea. We landed at Gibraltar for six hours sightseeing Ne first drove to the Public Gardens where We saw many tropical and semi-trop- ical shrubs and flowers including date palms. oieanders. pepper trees, olive trees, and q great pro- fusion of lmnense wild gerani- uns. We then SaW tic shore batteries. the great painted gun painted in dull nottied. coIors to conceal t from an enemy and the huge dry dock. We then re-
 traced our steps, passing through the South Port gate erected by Charles \ of Spain. Next We climbed up to the Galleries. long tunnels dug through the solid rock parallel to the face of the cliff. At intervals of few yards holes have been dug through to the light and out of these holes
 cannons are trained upon every
 avenue Of approachso that in five minutes they could blow fleet out ol the harbor with perfect se- renity to the defenders. The whole cliff, GOO 1t. high, i> honey combed with passages bored through the solid rock by human al. The people of Gibraltar are the most interesting eosmo- politan lot one could imagine.
 Crowded into the narrow streets we find Spaniards, Moors, Ne
 groes, Japanese, Malays, Arabs, Hindoos, Egyptians, Italians, Greeks. Jews, Englishmen, Americans and every other na- tionality under the sun except Es- quimax and Hottentots. Like wise every grade of society seemed damned into these streets. At one and Hle same instant we would see the most beautifully . j.as,s.,j SD,,tel !, iadiag a,d +ta