The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1907-10-16
VISIT SCENES
OF EARTHQUAKE
REV. AND MRS. WILLIAMS SEE
KINGSTON EN- ROUTE TO BO-
Gotta, COLUMBIA
NATIVES DIVE FOR NICkELS
Many Negroes Go to Panama to Work
on CanaI-Weather Hot and
SuItry

Rev. and Mrs. G.. S. Williams reach
ed Colon, Panama, Oct. | on their way
90 Bogota, Columbia. The following
communication was written to THE
News, enrOute.
On board Steamer AtratO,
Kingston, Jamaica,
Sept. 28, 'O7.
Jamaica! " someone calls-and we
gaze out at sea. Away off in the dis
tance looms up white mist, looking
more like a cloud than mountains,
which latter we presently find it to be.
AS we approach we make out their
outline. They lie in three tiers; the
upper one a deep blue, yet soft, misty
blue, quite unlike the solid blue OF the
ocean. The second tier appears dark
grew, while the lowest chain is green.
These colors are distinctly marked.
The mountains seem afire with the
RAYS of the setting sun, lat the same time
retaining their own cOlOrs. Horizontal
lines of red and orange streak the Verti-
cal bands of blue and purple in the
sky Everything is glory-tinted. The
waves become fiame-flecked instead
Of white-crested. A West-India sun
set is something to marvel at.
The Blue Mountains.
Now we can make out the high blue
cliffs, with white clouds clinging to
their sides; floating clouds, which are
soft, airy, and yet very material.
These are the Blue Mountains, and are
we'll named. They lie between seven
and eight thousand feet above sea.
Ia is growing dark fast. There is no
twilight here-and the brilliant tints
are fading fast. Just as the lighthouse
shines out over the sea, we go below
for dinner.
The Moon.
What wonder has been
wrought during the dinner hour!
Here is the moon and we have changed
our course.
The moon with its attendant sparkle
on the water and its flood of silver light
around the mountains are producing
another fairy scene.
, Kingston Hard to Enter.
We have been signalling for the
pllot-sending up many colored sky
rockets, a veritable Fourth of July
celebration, and here he comes!
tiny speck of light, miles away. In
an hour he is scrambIing up our ships
side by means of rope ladder The
moment he boards the vessel all re-
sponsibility passes from the ships
officers and rests upon him. Kingston
q is one of the hardest ports to make in
all these islands. We are to anchor at
Port Royal tonight at midnight and
enter the harbor by daylight, as it is
not safe to attempt it by night.
Health Inspection.
We leave the promenade deck about
midnight, and are up again at four.
Al that hour the jamaican doctor
came on board to receive the papers of
the ships surgeon, who must testify
that we are all in health. After this,
we are allowed to steam slowly into
port, which we reach about seven a.
m. The tops of the mountains are
Sun-kissed long before the little prom
tories stretching out to sea awake to
the SUMS appearance. The little trop-
ical islands are dotted with cocoanut,
and date palms, while at the extreme
end of one stands pagoda, for all the
y world like Chinese one!
Village Picturesque.
The houses of the villages near at
hand are thatched huts, overshadowed
by the tall palms. The villages are
numerous. Tucked away under the
hills, nestled half way up the noun
tains, peeping out among the palms,
they are very picturesque.
Three Wrecks on Sands.
Three German ships, wrecked on
the sands and rocks, are pointed out to
MS. The wind blew them on to the
wrong side of the peninsula, and they
could neither see the light house, nor
secure the pilot. The captain of one
of them shot himself as soon as he
knew his vessel was wrecked, but all
others on board were saved. What a