Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-11
PROF. PARKS RETURNS
FROM TOUR OF THE WORLD

Parsees, by wealthy Hindoos, and by
generous Japanese.
PAID MANY VISITS.
1--WE visited palaces and novels,
churches and temples, Christian mis-
sions and pagan shrines. We walked in
the darkness of tombs and caves and
climbed to the heights of monuments and
mountains. The heather opened their
temples to us, and the Christian mission
aries arranged more than dozen great
gatherings for us.
1--WE travelled on steamboats,, launches,
tenders. tugs, sail boats row boats, SAM
pans, railroads, electric cars, tram cars,
horse cars, OK carts, OK sleds, man sleds,
buffalo carts, ekkas, dos-a-dos, carriag es,
victorias, ghuerres, cabs, hacks. omni-
buses, horses donkeys, camels, elephants,
carabaos, in chairs on the backs of
coolies, in 'rickshaws drawn by Chinese,
and by jinrickishas pulled by Japanese.
I'VE saw Abbas, the khedive of Egypt;
Lord Mimic, the viceroy of India; the
emperor of Japan, and number of
princes, counts. barons. rajas, sultans,
maharajas, British residents, and Ameri-
can consuls.
I'VE saw war ships of England, Ger
many, Italy, Austria, japan and the
United States; of our own navy, we saw
Il
vania and West Virginia, at Hong Kong.
the Maryland and Colorado, at Nagasaki,
the Washington and Tennessee, at Yoke
hama, and a couple more in the inland
sea of Japan. 1t would not be an. eX-
aggeration to say that probably few peo-
pie i'm so short time, have ever visited
so many countries and places, or seen so
many people and so many of the varied
scenes OF the world.
SOME DISCOMFORTS.
However, there were discomforts. The
China sea was rough and the Pacific ocean
was rougher. The Red sea was hot. but
saki it was raining and cold. but at Nikko
1t was showing and colder.
1.-THE fruits of the tropics were a dis
appointment. The food on the ship was
excellent, but the regularity became mo-
notonous, especially as it had been neces-
sary to carry much of the provisions from
New York in cold storage. The food i'm
some of the Oriental cities was not al
ways palatable.
Pure drinking water could not always
be obtained, and for weeks In India and
the tropics, we were driven to the neces-
sity of using bottled liauids-mineral wa
ters. soda waters and lemonades.
Sometimes there were difficulties in
satisfying the quarantine regulations at
different ports, and in several countries
there was danger from exposure to conta-
gious diseases, such as cholera bubonic
plague leprosy and fevers. During the
two weeks of our stay in India, over 5000
people died from the effects of the bubonic
plague. At times our party was alarmed
by rumors of disease and by false re-
ports of possible quarantine restrictions.
trA q 81 frnx 10 ho fnnl-
ings of some to learn that the officers
OF the steamship had on board an extra
supply OF metallic collins, in case there
should be need for them.
I'm the party only few were ser1-
ously sick; however one man died as
our steamship was crossing the beauti-
full inland sea of japan. Besides one OF
the stokers died at Yokohama. At best
the undertaking of getting around the
world is a strenuous one, and the trip
could not be recommended to invaiios
in search of repose and health.
But more trying still was the long
separation from America and home. For
several weeks practically all connec-
ton was lost with the western world. At
sea, there were no papers, no letters, no
news and on land there was often only
slight western news in the local papers.
Frequently we were among people who
had barely heard of our country.
GLAD TO GET BACK.
Truly absence makes the heart grow
fonder, and never have 1 looked forward
with more joyous anticipations than
have today as l return home. Georgia
looks good to me. The old state never
seemed greater than she does today:
and America with all her political ana
social defects, is surely the best lana
on the globe. How fortunate we are
among the people of the world; how rich
in opportunities and natural resources!
Comparatively free from abject poverty.
free from degrading superstition, free
from the darkness of ignorance, ana
EARTH