The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-26


With wide-open eyes that have
watched the panorama Of a world un-
fold across e2,QoO smilee pS sea and
land, the 5S4 passengers Of the Ham
burg-American cruising ship "Cleve-
land" are again under the American
flag. To fouri outsabf evury FIVE this
means a return to homeland and home
after an absence Of nearly four months;
to the fifth il means one more nm.
familiar land to be Passea in review
before sailing for the Fatherland in
Europe. 1t is difficult to know which
is more to be envied--the homecomers
or the visitors.
The 'Cieveland' sailed from New
York on October 81 on its long voyage
of 40 days around the world, with
Captain Dempwolf ON. the bridge. This
ship has made the circuit before, but
this is the first time that the cruise has
been conducted by the Hamburg
American company itself, and 30 the
voyage marks a new eepoch in that
part of the history of navigation which
records the operations of this line g
fleet of III ocean steamers. " N''
1t has been a remarkable trip and
a remarkably successful one, for even
the weatherinan has remained in con-
genial mood. 1t has not been necessary
to nail the dishes to the tables on ae-
count of stormy weather nor to fush
the vessel with water. to prevent
spontaneous combustion while passing
through the tropical belt. The dreaded
passage of the Red Sea and of the. In
dian Ocean was made in weather that
was little, worse than balmy, and
neither the China Sea nor the Sea of
Japan was the brooding place of a
typhoon while the "Clevelandp glidea
through it's waters. There have been
very few days indeed when the pas
sengers might not remain comfortable
on the spacious promenade decks.
wonderful World.
1t has been wonderful world that
this party of Americans and Europeans
have seen as they have swung around
the great circle. First came Madeira,
with its flowers and it's famous wine
and its equally famous laces. Then
Gibraltar rose up out of the sea, grand
and gray and ominous against the
November sky. In striking contrast
was the sunny shore of the French
Riviera, with drives in the moonlight
around Villefranche and Nice and a
little cautious flirting with the roulette
many of the passengers
'iewed with the same awe that one
,estows upon circular saw in motion. |
On glorious morning, with the
'row of the great ship pointed toward |
! carmine sky, the statue of De Lesseps
It Port Said came into view and the !
Vest was now in the East. Instead I
lowly creeping through the SueA |
lanai, the passengers here took train |
or Cairo and sojourned in the city |
hat never wearies and the land that
s so old that. the passing years add |
title to its antiquity. Rejoining the
hip at Suez, the other end of the Canal, [
hey headed for the farther East.
Bombay, the commercial capital of |
he great empire of British India, was
he next port. Here, as they drove
through streets packed with humanity,
he travellers saw mankind In the mass /
nd met the odors as well as the sights
f the Orient; here also and only here
hey saw that strangest of all the meth
ds of disposing of the dead-the Par
ee ''towers of silence upon which
'ere perching focks of sleek vultures
awaiting the arrival of the +
ext body within their weird banquet.
,g hall.
Splits Into Groups.
At Bombay the party split up into
smporary groups to visit different
arts of the empire. Some went with
he "Cleveland" to Ceylon-" where
very prospect pleases, and only man
vile." Some went only to Agra, to
BE the worlds greatest tomb, the in.
Tai Mahal. Some went only
, Darjeeling, on the southern slope OF
ne Himalayas, to see the sun rise on
Iount Everest. And u special party
100 went to all of these places by
1ecial train and visited en- route those
ties of grimly heroic memory-Delhi
nd Cawnpore and Lucknow. Then all
,me together again at Calcutta and
'ok ship for Rangoon and its match;
ss Shwe Dagop pagoda.
The next port was Slngapore-the
alf-way house to the Farthest East,
he crossroads of the ocean highways,
it'll its peoples of every race under the 4
IN. Then, a degree southwark, they
'ossed the equator and passed on to 4
atavia, where they sojourned with the !
,nial little Malays of Java--and did
1t drink Java coffee. NorthwaFd again
,ross the line and then northeastward, !
10 "Cleveland" caught up the trail !
Dewey and steamed into Manila
ay, where the party was met at sea
= the famous Constabulary Band, play
g the music of the homeland. -
on for HongkonE. III
1t was Christmas Eve when the I
Cleveland went out of the bay, SO
hristmas was spent in the China Sea =
/ the way to Hongkong. While the
Zip lay at anchor here, the party went
riverboats up to Canton and Feceiv.
the heartiest of welcomes from an
multitude of Chinese gath.
ed on the pier, withgthe edag of their
Nv republic. waving everywhere. Back
;ain to Hongkong and across the Chi ,
sse Sea, the party celebrated New
ears Day with the Japanese at Ma