Douglas Island news., 1910-06-15
AROUND THE WORLD
Dr. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
Bom bay. May 6, 1910.

BOm pay, May D, l51O.
 Friend Hopp:-Have just received "News" with first installment of my letters. They read rather jerky, but probably not more than l talk. do not dare to read my letters over-if l did l would never send them. How ever, there is this comfort: that these letters will be worse. Then l was Tn Kobe, nice and cool; now l am swelter- ing with the heat. Besides, l have a grouch. have received number of letters from Mr. T. J. Patterson and several patches of papers, but have not had a word from another Alaskan although l have written to nearly hundred. Even my old friend John l. White, man of whom have always spoken kindly, has not answered any of my letters and has utterly forgotten my existence.
 Before begin l wish to say that Mir. Murray, the wster-works man, sent me a message through T. j. Patterson, say 1 ing that he wanted me to give the full name of the parties whom l am writing about. He also suggested that inn prove my spelling, but he can go to thunder. 1 was at city few days ago. The station label said that the place was Jeypoor. went in and tbere was a proclamation an the wall issued by the mahraja of Jaypore. went out; passed the Jeypur postottice, the Jaipur gas works, the Jaypoor water works, went on to the Jaipore hotel and found the letter. heads read Jaypor. How the devil does he expect me to spell word ! like that?
 Left Kobe for Shimoneseki and pass ed through a rich and we'll cultivated country. Most of it is low and flat and is planted out in rice. There are hun- dreds of miles of dykes, some of them forty or fifty feet high. Road ran near seashore most of the day. Arrived at Sbimoneseki after dark and rose before day break Crossed over to another island, distance of several miles. A few hundred years ago there was bad sea fight, there being over five hundred vessels on each side. This sounds big, but very few of them were any larger than the Anita Phillips. The rebel side won and sunk all the kings yes sells. The king was three or four years old and his grandmother was looking after him. When she saw the battle was lost she picked him up and jumped into the sea. Both were drown.
 The sun rose as crossed to Nogi and as I looked at the thousands of fishing vessels coming in or getting made ready to go out I could imagine what it was like few hundred years since. 1 Kumamoto Is about hundred miles from Nogi. The road passed through very rich valley in places over fifty miles wide. Near Nogi are large iron works and coal mines; farther on are sugar mills aud many kinds of manu factories. l saw three or four men ploughing, the first I had seen in tray cling 1,600 miles in Japan. l reached Kumamoto, went to hotel, found that nobody spoke English. Fortunately at Kobe l had one of those lucid streaks that hit me occasionally. l had hunch that I might have trouble and had the hotel manager give me letter telling who l was and that wanted to see the leper asylum. produced the letter and every body frightened up. They bundled me into a rickshaw and the Jap started off. It was two miles out of town, but it was boulevard all