The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-10
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CHAPTER VI,


and could hear the whistles and many other
amusing things, but still we were exiled.
Thursday morning, at eight o'clock, the
captain Informed us that another effort
would be made to go along side, but warned
al passengers that the greatest precaution
naQSe be used The old pilot who came
aboard Informed us that for twelve years
be bad been docking ships at the wharf, but
had never seen just such disturbed waters
as there seemed to be at this time. We
gS0aalSel to obey orders and the ship made
saQsAsg effort to get along side, This time
sAsy succeeded in bringing the ship in
YessA QsS the wharf, but were compelled to
SAY u With double anchors. Such passen-
xsSS ~ desired to land had to climb down
\ ladder, more than thirty feet long, extend
s& eat ever the water from the top OF the
SASs 10 the platform on the wharf. When
ms ladder was extended the first person
e SSesaG il was q young man, apparently
SA00t thirty years OF age and nlmble OF
steps, who seemed to be a regular sailor.
Some one cried out that man was ascend
lNS the ladder. and we beheld the face we
had met in London six years before. We
cried out, "Rev. Forde." He cried out, CDR
RovS." The first thing he informed us of
WAS that he and number of his members
made up a part of the crowd that had pa
raded the dock each day, watching our ship
and hoping for our landing. The captain
informed us that the ship would be at least
rwenty-fOur hours discharging its cargo.
We turned our room number Is with all
of our baggage over to the chief steward,
and for the first time tried our hand on de-
Scending an extended ship ladder. The
water made our head swim, but the determi-
nation to reach the shore and put our feet
on Costa Rican soil was so great that we
ran down the ladder like sailor. Our
hand-grip was lowered by line. DIR. Forde
grabbed hold of it, got us by the arm and
made Decline across the wharf, through
the dock houses and out to land. But here
at the gates we were stopped. DR.. Forde
jabbered something in one way to one man,
then something else to another man. He
left our grip with the man with whom he
had talked Spanish, had another to lead out
towards another building to whom he spoke
French and to us he talked English. Then
we soliloquized, "What manner of man. He
seems to be able to communicate with the
whole universe at one time"
He then informed us that he was going to
obtain a permit, or land pass. He walked
up the steps of another Office and here con-
fronted us man, neither white nor black,
with whom DR.. Forde held a conversation
in Spanish who asked us to present our let
ters of introduction, which we did. This
man, neither white nor black, called young
white clerk, who, we presumed, must have
been American or English. He read our
letters and translated them into Spanish
and the gentleman gave us an Important
piece of paper, shook our hands and told us
we would need it when we went back to go
through the gates. We found he was cor
rect.
Then we made a bee line to find cable
office, but found that Port Limon had no
cable and must depend upon wireless. We
then looked every place to find Western
Union code. Being informed that there
was none in the city, we found an A. B. G.
code. We wrote out the following cable
gram Baptist, Nashville, Tenn, Adolezco.
Sabuga." This we offered to the wireless
people and asked them if the message could
be delivered. They said yes. We asked the
price and were told that by putting Tennes-
see in brackets they could deliver the mes
sage for nine Colonies" which means nine
Costa Rican dollars, or nine dollars in sill
yer. He said it would cost four dollars in
gold We had learned the use of gold by
this time and we found that messages were
one dollar per word, hence we handed the
man five dollar gold piece. He handed us
two silver colonies" which seemed to be
considerably larger than our silver dollars
Making polite bow to the gentleman and
saying, "mucha gracios senior" we made a
dash with DIR. Forde to his home. Reach
ing the parsonage, or what they called the
mission house." we found beautiful two
story, eight-room house.
But when told by DR.. Forde that he hat
no family, we were little surprised AM
wondered what he did with all this house
He said to us he might do as Rev. Thour
bourne had done, visit the States and per
suade some American lady to accompan
him back to Central America. We told hir
that we thought he had head like tacl
if this was his intention.
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