Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-04

case in San Francisco bay, and by 8
O'Clock that night there were few wom-
en- on board who were not deathly
sick, and many of the men were in
| like condition AS luck would have it
neither my mother nor myself were
sick for minute of the trip. This was
was rather surprising to me, owing to
the fact that it was my first sea
| voyage. From what | saw that day,
! formed the opinion that sea sickness
is often brought on by the magma
| ton, although l don't say that is al
ways the case. The people start to
thinking that they will surely be sick,
and, of course. the first rough weather
they have there is no other alrernd-
tive. l had made up my mind that I
was not going to suffer, therefore, was
not sick; in fact did not even feel the
there were only five people appeared
in the saloon at the First Sitting for
dinner.
The "Buford" is the smallest and
| slowest of the transports, but she
made a record trip for herself on that
voyage. She is the only transport that
is not equipped with the wireless ap-
paratus, and the only one fitted with
a single screw. She is supposed to
make eleven knots an hour at her
best, but just before reaching Homo
lulu on this trip she actually made
299 miles in one day which is better
than twelve knots an hour; in fact, we
averaged 1S1 miles q day on the en-
tire trip, which is almost twelve knots
an hour. We arrived at Honolulu
about o'clock on the evening of Sat
urday, Sept. 70, 1908, twenty-four hours
length Of time before the officials OF
that port were expecting us.
Sunday in Honolulu.
AS we We're not to leave Honolulu
until Monday morning the 14th, it
being against the laws of that terri
tory TO unload cargo on Sunday except
in cases of emergency, we had quite
an opportunity of seeing the city. We
/ spent all day Sunday in sightseeing.
IN the morning we visited Fort Shafter
and the beautiful parks in that part
of the city; in fact the whole city
itself is one massive park, especially
in The resident districts. To person
who has never visited tropical coun.
try the scenery is lovely, but, in my
opinion, the "sameness" the whole
year around, would become very mo-
notonous after the newness Lad worn
off They had some of the most beau
tiful palms in that city. We saw five
different varieties during our short
stay There were two species OF
cocoanut palms tall and shorD date
palms; banana palms, and palmetto
palms (shade). In the afternoon we
visited what is known as Waikiki
beach. At that point there is fins
public bath house and natural park
OF several hundred acres. At this
point there is a boulevard that you
can look down and see nothing but
iron pine trees on either side as fai
as you can see. These trees get theil
name from the fact that they are sc
hard it is said they will turn the edge O.
an AK and have to be sawed down. Jus
a small twig Of the tree will weigh al
: of pound it is so heavy The
aquarium is located in this section o
the city also and of course, we visit
ed it. This place is noted all over the
world as the place OF interest IL
Honolulu. They have seventy varietie:
of fish. All colors, sizes and shapes
imaginable. They even have an octo
pus, which is the most horrible crea
ture | ever saw. We also visited thu
/. Moana hotel Ca winter RESORT whil
in that neighborhood. This hotel ha
a private bathing beach where the sur
[ ,,;I SC.
picnic watching the bathers trying t
ride the surf. One minute they woul
$ be in the boat and the next they woul
, be trying to get in the boat. The boat
l are long, slender affairs, built some
: thing like a canoe, but much longe
y and much narrower, and they have
; long rail Of bamboo jutting out fror
either side in order to balance ther
when the high waves strike then
Even these protectors would not pre-
: vent the boats from turning turtl
| when the waves were received broat
side. This being the case it require
e good deal of skill on the part of tn
II paddlers in order to avoid getting int
u the waves in that position.
A Long Voyage.
n Monday morning, the day we wer
h to sail from Honolulu, the native bras
d band came to the wharf and played fc
o several hours for the passenger
e of the "Buford." 1t is the Gu
d tom of that band to play c
S the arrival of all transports, but, oN
l. ing to our arriving ahead of tt
n schedule, they We're not at the VIVA
q when we landed They have a 'cracl
y band and certainly sounded fine.
i being the first instrumental music v
e had heard since leaving San F-rancisc
# We weighed anchor and pulled awe
t from the Honolulu wharf promptly
II II o'clock Monday morning, Septemb
= 18th. amid the cheers Of quite
- crowd. Two of the teachers that he
IL come that far with US could not r
sist the temptation Of coming down
wave goodbye, although they we
It. the only ones in the crowd we were a
r Quainted with. Having left that wha
- we started on the longest and me
~ tiresome part of our journey, name
III to Guam. 1t requires from 10 days
ut two weeks to make that stretch.
at person does not realize the vastness