Arizona republican., 1914-09-13
LETTER FROM
 THE ANT|P0DES
Description of Voyage by Lecturer Dan Crawford Through the Shining Seas from San Francisco to New Zealand

1 Citizens of Phoenix will be interested
 in the following letter to Mr. Walter Hill from his friend Dan Crawford who lectured here last spring on Dark
 est Africa where he had lived for 8 | long time and acquired more intimate
 knowledge of it than any other living man. The letter containing a descrip- 1 tion of voyage through the South i Seas, follows:
 Christchurch, N z 20th July, 1914. My Dear Friend,
 I am just sending you a note to say that here I am-can I believe my eyes in dear, delightful New Zealand. Ii seems all dream, for after leaving Vancouver, away we sailed south into
 the shining seas, until one day we struck the Sandwich Islands (modern name. HaWaii) where Captain Cook of immortal fame was killed and eaten I did not know what was waiting me there till one day, far out at sea, the wireless Marconigrams came streaming into my cabin, one from the governor of the Island, Carter, and another from the great pr. Doremus Scudder invit- ing me to land and lecture for a month. All the messages wound up with the greatest word in the Pacific ocean Aloha, which means far more than the English word Welcome" It is the concentrated essence of all the warm gracious ingredients that go to form a sweet, take you to- the heart welcome So 1 landed, and went plunge into Par adise for twenty seven days. For here is land that never, never varies, and all the year round-January to Decem-
 ber-they have a temperature of S5 degrees. As climate is notoriously a formative factor in character, you can | quite conceive that these glorious islanders smile all the year through. In fact, at last we have reached the land where the rhyme holds good:
 Miles, and miles, and miles
 "Of smiles. and smiles, and smiles.
 There is the famous Waikiki beach here-the greatest bay in the .world. Venice and Durban (South Africa) come in a decent second; but hats off, all the world. to the primacy of the Pacific. There it was that I found hungry souls who knew all about the latest novels (for being Islanders they are jealous of being "out of it') say that they knew all about every book except the Bible, So, starved with romance and philosophy, we put tfem on the good old diet of the brown bread of the Kingdom of God. Then it was that you were all forgot. for this is a little island, mere dot in the Pacific, half way between America, Asia and Australia We snapped our fingers at the whole lot of you, and held on our shining way to the tuiie of an everlasting S5 degrees in the shade.
 Now off we go, sailing through shin ing seas Then my old friend, the Southern Cross, comes overhead, and old friend salutes old friend. Then comes the next phase, four days south, the famous Fiji Islands, and not a catch on the Sandwich group. Here it was casually rang up the missionary MT. Small. He at once set the phone bel! ringing all over the island which eventuated in great big meeting, the body of the church being filled with glorious Christian natives who, more toning the hymns with that haunting semi-negro, wholly Pacific intonation Then I spoke. with the result that they