Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-09
MEET Steamers
ON A LOG
RAFT
by Latest MALL

RIO DE JANElRO. DraZil-Des-
cribing a unique journey along the
che Brazilian coast where the coast
al vessels are much smaller than
those making stops at the leading
cities, traveller has written an ac-
count of his experiences for the Moni-
tors readers, as follows:
We went to anchor in the harbOr
of Bahia on November evening. The
picturesque town lay before us with
it's antiquities and its 100 or more
churches, but we could not go ashore,
as the custom house closes at )
o'clock in the vening, and we dropped
anchor a little post ).
The next morning the custom Of
ficer came on board and my valise
went to the custom house. | hired a
sailboat and sailed for landing
place did not get my bag back that
day because, as it was Saturday, the
man in charge of the baggage inspec-
#tion was otherwise occupied, and
was told to come back Monday
morning at II o'clock.
ION Monday morning the people at
the place of inspection informed me
they had not had time as yet to look
after the bakkage and that | should
come back Tuesday morning | thus
had time to take a look around. The
trolley car took me to the ocean front
where stroll along the beach made
me regret that my bathing suit was
at the custom house. l then had a
walk through town. The first thing
noticed was that the houses were not
built stiff as in the United States, and
everywhere you see some little archi-
tectural novelty, with here and there
some monumental works. Nor ara
the streets of Bahia as dirty as, for
instance, the East Side of New York,
and the dwellings looked clean and
neat; even in house where there was
not much furniture the place was
tidy. d.
"The workers under the tropical
sun doubtless are striving, intelligent
people. But they have not yet many
great industrial plants, although they
know how to supply their daily needs
and necessities. Over there you see
a man pressing the juice. out of the
sugar cane and selling it by he glass;
there, farther along. is the tailor
making clothes, and the shoemaker
making shoes, and the cabinetmaker
making furniture, all in their little
workshops with the doors standing
wide open, so that everybody can see
what they do, and how they do it.
''The custom inspector got busy
the next day and looked over my
things. / had no duty to pay and took
my baggage on board the Brazilian
coasting steamer lheos. The little
steamer was scheduled to leave at
moon, but alongeame 100 or more
canoes and skiffs and boats with saks
and boxes and cans and bottles. It
was past 10 O'Clock at night before
all the cargo was safe on board and
the steamer raised anchor and steam
ed out down the coast of Brazil.
THE first landing we made at IL
heos, town of about 5000 people and
a good harbor, with railroad run
ming into the interior. doing business
mostly with cacao plantation people.
Ilheos obtained a kind of historical
fame some years ago. Some, enter
'prising American, noticing that the
people on the cacao plantations had
use for good, low priced guns as pro-
lection against wild beasts, brought
up a quantity of rifles and ammuna-
ton and sailed for Ilheos. But some
body cried revolution the newspapers
took it up, and the Americans IN IL
heos were, arrested. That was years
ago; people have become more reas-
enable there now.
After delivering the goods shipped
from Bahia to the merchants of Ilheos
we went along the coast, stopping
next at Canavieras The pilot was
awaiting US a good distance off land
not in a boat but on raft, made of
four tree trunks tied together, with a
sail on it, and two men to guide the
thing. We put a boat out and took
the pilot on board and entered the
harbor, khere we stayed half day
and then steamed for Port-Seguro.
!: BY the time we got to Port-Seguro
the sea was too rought for the pilot to
come out, but the captain and crew of
the Tlheos managed to get in and out
OF the harbor without difficulty"