The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-01-31
NUMBER l3.
Doctor Brown Reaches Phillipines.

we ran out into gale, which was so
severe that the waves broke over the
forecastle. If you want to see people
SICK you ought to have been aboard To
see now the majority of the passen.
gers showed what they had in them |
tell you they raised every thing they
had eaten for six months. For time
1elt as though | couldn I contain nv
self; but by battening the matches and
missing my dinner, every thing passed
the prima via-probably the only one
who could in truth say as much. Some
did not show up for three days There
were a lot OF school teachers who be-
gan to think that instead of teaching
the young Filipina how to shoot, they
could better teach them how to puke,
since they themselves had become past
masters of the art.
| The second day ont, however. every
thing was fne-the sea as smooth as
glass and as blue as indigo, continu-
ing SO until we arrived at Honolulu.
Here we butted up against the quaren-
tine, and, for time, feared that we
would not be permitted to land, as bu-
bonic plague had broken out in Frisco
after left; but, after rigid inspection
the tirst-class passengers were allowed
to land.
Honolulu is delightful and is we'll
worth trip from Julesburg to see. |
could have staid there a week.
The fellow | was with when reaching
shore had brother aboard the West
Virginia, which had just arrived.
was invited to accompany him, and we
took dinner with the "Jackies" and
were shown the inner side OF life
aboard a man o. war, which | enjoyed
very much, especially the dinner,
while not bit fancy, was really good.
| have much greater respect for our
fighting men since this visit They
look and act like a lot of good, clean
fellows, with bright eyes and ma gnti-
cent physiques, and men with whom
wouldn't care to hunt trouble.
The next day went ashore early
and roamed about alone. | never be-
fore saw such pretty lawns in my life.
Grass looking like green velvet, with
! here and there various kinds of palms
and trees foreign to me, some of them
covered with purple.colored blossoms,
and all surrounded by a hybiscus
hedge about three feet in height and
covered with scarlet blossoms two in
ches in diameter.
The most beautiful sight of all. how
ever, was the aquarium. | never i'm
agined such gorgeous cOloring in the
animal kingdom. There were, think,
forty eight tanks and all but three con-
tanned different cOlored fishes, all of
which are indigenous to that place.
They varied in size from |! to II IN
ches One was about the size of a dol
lar and as thick in the center, shading
to an edge almost circular and colored
like the wing of one of those large but
tertys one sees in the states. Another
was orange hued, similar to our gold
fish, but with an abundance Of chiffon
like wings that quite completely Gov
cred the body when in certain posi-
tiOns. The color could still be seen
shining through but softened to IA pale
straw tint Then came young shrimp,
looking for all the world like gigantic
mosquitoes, about II inches in length
and SO transparent that one could see
through them as clearly as through
glass: and then the octopus. huge look
ing like the stomach of an animal sur
rounded by lot of minute intestines
and wiggling like lot Of angle worms.
every now and then stretching out to
grasp something: and then the sea eels
looking like the pythons one secs at
the circus wish that could picture
to you the others, but | must admit
the task beyond me.
Leaving Honolulu. we had smooth
sea until within days Of Yokohama.
when another gale, more severe than
the first. came on, and most of the
passengers had to do it all over, even
up to the ship surgeon, his work fall
ing to me, whom it did not phaZe this
time. Part of this run was thr, ugh
a phosphorescent sea, and from the
bow of the ship at night it looked as
if We were plowing through sea of
fire. As we approached the coast OF
Japan we saw the wreck Of the -fated
Dakota: and how the captain could so
run his ship on the reef in the broad
night OF day surpasses my nautica un-
der,tanding.
My first observation while entering
the harbor at Yokohama was its forti-
tication Three small islands in the
channel have been strongly fortified
by the Japs ard, Judging from their