Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-06-28


mr.. vent the trouble or to relieve it
in any way. Some advise YOU to
eat and $, ME not to eat, some to
drink and some not to drink, but it
all comes to The same thing.
Anyone that can CO mpound any
medicine that will prevent this
trouble has done much for human
ity, and placed at his own COM
manl much income.
When you are able to get out OF
the stateroom you spend most OF
lifetime on deck as fresh air feels
best. Many of the people spend
most of the time on deck when
they have adjustable reclining
chairs, and most everyone has u
steamer robe to keep IF the wind
IF YOU do not have one you can
rent one Oh board. Meals will be
served to you there without extra
charge, il you do not care to go to
the dining-room.
The smokestacks of a vessel are
generally spoken OF in the marine
yernacular az tunnels" vessels
having from one to four. 1t may
surprise You to know that man
could ride through one OF these on
the largest horse you ever saw and
have several feet to spare Ov"r ms
head.
You may wonder how vessels 20
or 30 feet below the water line, and
water tight above could be proper
" ventilated. This is done BY
means of Tubes or pipes, some OF
them as large as 10 feet in dame
ter, which start on the upper decks
and o. down to the the desired
places in the vessel. They have
long bell shaped mouths to them,
which can be turned any way to
catch the wind, and the speed OF
the vessel drives it down the tubes
which are subdiyided and carried to
the different rooms and you can
cut it off or on as you like:
The men who are firing the en-
gincs are literally supplied with it
and they need it, too. 1t, makes
life endurable for them, but short
ems their days from standing too.
much in the drafts when overheat'
ed.
There are many other things
that are quite interesting about
boats, but | realize that,l ami 60
ing too much into detail. | must
therefore skip over many of those
things, as we'll as the occurrence OF
the first four davs 'ahoat outside OF
that to which we have already re
ferrtd.
We left N, Y. in the dead OF
winter with the snow covering the
ground and still falling Our
course was S. E, and We noticed
the weather getting warmer each
day. We met and passed's'me YES
sells. not many, and exchanged sig
nails with them when close enough.
The first land We sighted was on
the morning of the 9th day, the
Azores Islands, in the Atlantic o.
can.
Now / had heard of The Azores
Island since had studied geogra
phy in my school DAYS, but it new
ersimpressed me that they were
any thing Of Importance. Well.
personally, they are not, but they
struck me as being the most beau
tiful spot on earth that | had ev'r
seen. They reached for 800 miles
and we were sailing past or Through
them all dav. The first one we
sighted was names Flores, which is
the Latin word for flowers, a very
appropriate name. II may have
been that the change from the
fhleak scenes of winter jnst left in
IN X, by contrast, made il. apreai
the mors marked, but be'that as il
NAV, they hacked respieldant in
royal green. The slopes rising
from the sea, with their fields Of
wheat and orchards -sand hedge
fences. looked to ME like the work
of artistic landscape garduers. The
houses were all built Of stone ant
painted white. and the towers Thu
same. The towns were numerous
along the shore and one of them,
difficult name, had population Of