Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-03-10

space In racks and floor, there
were also two Syrians. | climb
ed in and pushed our baggage in
to a place the best | could, when
my friends came back they IN
formed me that they expected
that | would have followed them
to the buffet, and have some
thing to eat. Now 1t was eight
mmuted to starting time, so that
there was no supper for me. At
ter emptying their pockets /
found three oranges and these !
took and made my supper Of
them.
We arrived in Beyrouth, thank.
full that we had come down the
mountains all through darkness,
wind and snowstorm, safe. Now
the question was, How are we to
get to our shipi Our plan was
as soon as we came to the sta
tiOn of BeyrOuth in the night,
was to select the most bright and
intelligent man that climbed on
the steps of our car as it stopped
at the station, we did so and
handed him a grip and said
Cincinnati several times. He led
us to the side of the water and
there We found small boat and
a man in it, the young man that
led us to the boat was | suppose
about Is years old and the man
i'm the little boat was his father.
We three with our grips got
into the small boat making five
of us in all. The water in the
protected bay was quite calm,
and We were full of JOY, that we
soon would be ON our own ship,
and soon be in our clean and
warm bed. One man (the faith
err took the oars and started
out into the dark waters, we
went on and on till We were near
the break waters, then we CON-
: menced to bob up and down,
as we began to pass the break
. waters the boat began to dive
up and down in the most lively
way, and as we moved out fur
Their into the cold dark rough
J waters, we began to wish We had
gone to a hotel and waited for
daylight to make the attempt
TO embark. We saw what we con-
sidered our boat away in the
distance ablaze Of light. We
J worked our way towards our ship
} feeling that any minute the way
eS would swallow our little boat,
and as we began to approach our
, boat we commenced to think that
the boat In front of us was not
our boat. We began to feel that
we were in a bad way, we turned
to our bOatman, while he was
keeping the cOckshell as much as
possible head towards the big
ship in front of lis and said, is
this the CINCINNATI? He said in
broken English, yes AnglO-Amer-
lean, AnglO-American,. yes, just
at that moment | discovered thru
:, the darkness, that the ship in
front of us had two tunnels and
we took heart and told the boat
man to advance as We approach
J ed We found that the step land
ing was too high to reach, so we
called the watch to lower it, we
waited holding on to the rope
that was stretched along the ships
side there waited, the boat Jump
ing up and down like something
bewitched, We all trying to keep
her from smashing herself against
the iron side of the ship. The
step was lowered, so with the
help of the sailors on the landing
stage, as our little cockshell of a
boat was jumping up and down,
we were one by one dragged on
to the stage, feeling thankful for
something solid under foot, the
bOat-man came on the landing,
after beating his boy, who began
to show fear. | offered him two
francs the right fee, and a tip of
one franc, but he put my hand
aside, with Indignation, pointing
to the rough sea shook his head.
ne followed up the steps to the
deck of the ship, there | thought
perhaps he deserved more than
the ordinary fee, so l put into
his hand 3 F. ($l) but he shook
his head and would hear none of
1t, and said in his broken English,
one pound, and pointing to the
rough sea, 50 to settle the matter
l put another 2 shilling piece in
TO his hand making $3.50 altoge-
Their, two days pay for a boat
and a man here, no this was not