Douglas Island news., 1910-07-06
AROUND THE WORLD
Dr. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
Continued from last week.

We went back to Manila by train through very interesting country, crossing the battlefield of Lapote, where there is a monument to Phil Me- Quillan. There are two kinds of boats or canoes--one is simply a dug. out, the other is little larger and is sail boat. It has outriggers on which native sits to steady the boat. In stiff wind he will sometimes be seen sitting on an outrigger six feet away from the boat itself.
 l was going to tell you about Lahoma church where the big Qattle was; about the Pasig river; about the bridge where the Fillipinos first attacked the Ameri cans; about the graveyards, where you are turned out of your nice, warm grave at tbe end of five years if your ground rent is not paid; about the Lunette, where the band plays in the evening; where the Philippines used to stand on the soft, sandy beach with their backs to the sea to be shot in the morning-I was going to tell you about those things, but will not; have said enough about Manila The botanical gardens are we'll worth seeing, and Terry Brennan was entirely mistaken the Filipino girls are not pretty.
 From Hong Kong to Canton is about 100 miles up muddy yellow river through flat, lonesome country. ] had forgotten to tell you why the Yel- low sea is so called. The water is yellow or sand colored, and for hundreds of miles you do not see any blue or green water. l suppose it comes from the fine sand and mud brought down by the large rivers.
 Canton has about three million peo pie, one half living on the river. There is small European settlement on an island. There is one white and several Chinese hotels. We could not get room at the white hotel on account of that cursed Clark's party. That party has annoyed me ever since. There are ITS tourists making a round the-world trip on the steamer Cleveland. At Hong Kong we had to sleep in the par Tor on account of them, at Canton in a Chinese hotel, at Colombo we had to go to second class hotel, at Calcutta all the best rooms in all the best hotels were taken by the Clark'5 party, at Darjeilng they would only give us rooms until the Clark's party arrived. They crowded me at Benares, Cawn- pore, Lucknow and Delhi. 1 am glad to say that they left Bombay a day or two ago, but l will be sure to meet them again ia Turkey, Italy or Greece.
 went first to see the temple of the 800 genii or followers of Buddha. The guide assured me that in the course of time all those men would be rulers of China, that is, their spirits would pass into the bodies Of the different em perors of China. They, of course, be- lieve in incarnation. The figures were life size; no two alike. A few had European features, but most were Mongolian. The one that made the greatest impression on me was Marco Polo. An Italian trader or merchant sets out from Venice on trading trip. He visits Ceylon, India, China, Japan and other countries and he is remem. bered in every place he visited. He in- troduced the mariners compass in Europe Before his time they sailed by the stars or kept in sight of land. He found that the Chinese had been using