Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-21

night for we had dinner, which
started at seven and we did not
finish until nine.
/ would like to stay some time at
Sorrento, Amalfi and this place. The
view, air and meals are fine. DR.,
Willard had never stayed here with
his party before, so he was a little
surprised when we came to the din
ner table and found it decorated in
ivy, tulips, friezes. hyacinths, peo-
nies, iris, and some flowers / did not
know the name of. We stay here
until after lunch and then we pro-
ceed to Cava by carriage, taking US
on up the mountain, but still in
view of the sea. Many years ago
this city had 10000 inhabitants
while now there are only 1000. 1t
was very cold last night and I
wished several times l had my
steamer rug.
April IA, on board Yacht Athena
Here we are sailing along on the
Ionian Sea. The weather is grand
and the sea smooth. Our meals are
all eaten outside with Just canvas
over our heads. We travelled over
800 miles on the train yesterday
reaching Brendesi about eight
o'clock, where we were driven to the
yacht Athena, and set sail at 8:45.
1t was quite rough all night as we
were crossing the Adriatic Sea, but
today its very calm again. This
yacht holds seventy-five people, and
we have nearly sixty on board I
don't feel like we are on the sea for
land is so close on both sides of us.
Every one is going wild over the
snow covered mountains, which have
been in sight all morning To
Emily and l, who are used to seeing
snow covered mountains, it is not
new. These mountains look very
much like the Rocky mountains as
there is very little growing on them.
We get to Delphi in the morning
about six and land about seven. We
will be there nearly all day. Our
plan has been changed little so as
to go to Constantinople first, so we
will not get to Athens until April
25th instead of the goth, so it will
be just a month since I had any
word from home.
The other day when we returned
from Postum, the two Church girls
(Mrs. J. J. Murphy's grand-daugh-
ters) got into the same car with us.
] did not know them although one
of the girls face was familiar to me. |
She looked like her mother, so I
asked her where she was from and |
she said Oregon. told them was
from Salem and knew their grand |
mother very we'll Their mother
had gone to Rome, and they were
leaving Cava in a few days for
Rome.
We did not get to land at Corfu,
this morning, but on account of be-
ing in Greek waters our officer had
to land and get the yachts papers
fixed up, so nearly every one sent
some mail ashore. Our ride yester-
day on the train, was mostly
through olive groves, although we
have not had an olive to eat since
we reached Italy. Very few olives
are eaten in Italy as they use all
their olives for OIL We will get
olives in Greece, and they say they
are very fine.
April 17th-This is Sunday morn
ing, and we will be sailing all day.
This is such delightful trip, and / ,
am so glad l came to Greece, for /
have learned more of Greek History
this last week, than l knew during
my whole life.
We left Bundire in the evening,
and our first stop was Itea, where
we took carriages to Delphi, Here
we spent the day; eating our lunch
under the trees at the Castaian
Our lunch was prepared
on the yacht, and they took two
sailors along to wait on us. We re-
turned to the yacht about 1880, had
lur dinner and retraced our steps a
little, and our next stop was Kata-
Kola where we took a special train
'or Olympia. The train ride was |
about l y hours, We again took our |
unch with us, but this time we ate /
t in the dining room of a hotel at
olympia, but we had our own
waters to wait upon us. We get to
'irea about i've tonight, where we
AXE on supplies and coal, and while
We are at Pirea, which is just a lit
lie ways from Athens, they are go
ng to send a sailor after our mail
From Pirea We go to Epidure and
hen to Crete, The weather is !
grand and now that we are in in
protected waters, instead of open