Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-13

In the Christmas number of Good
Words, the monthly magazine publisher
at the Federal penitentiary at AtiHnta,
Ga, there is an article by F. W. $. Qtev.
Frank W. Sanford of Shiloh) on his
tour around the world in the yacht Coro-
net. Mr. Sanford who is serving term
for manslaughter in connection with the
death of members of his crew on that
tour, writes very interestingly under the
subject "Worldwide Touches descrb-
ing the most interesting features Of the
trip and the emotions it aroused. The
article is as follows:
Worldwide Touches.
BY F. w g.
"On August II. 1876. the writer, grip
in hand, started for the railroad station
in Boston en- route for London by steam
er from New York, the plan being to join
the yacht Coronet, at ~ibraltar and make
a globe-encircling trip in the interest OF
humanity.
when. exactly three years later the
Coronet dropped anchor in our home por,
we stepped ashore with the remark on
our lips: The Victoria in which Ma
gellan sailed was the first vessel TO cir
cumnarigate the globe; the Corone: Is
the last"
Our plan had of course been IN con-
temptation for some time and on arriv-
ing at Gibraltar we cruised to the shores
of the Holy Land and leaving the yacht,
attended a convention in the city or Je
rusalern. held in the last week of that
year.
"At this convention a party of 80 was
selected to take the trip and soon after
We set sail.
THE yacht that was TO bear this party
to every ocean save one and to every in
habted continent on the earth, was
staunch and tried. having rounded the
globe under her first owner, II. T. Bush
shortly after winning the supremacy or
the seas in a race across the Atlantic
with the English-built yacht, Daunt'ess
las | lay last night reviewing the ex-
periences of the 5000 mile voyage there
stood out most impressively the city OF
the Great King founded in the hoary
past by Melchizedek and yet to be the
capital of the globe under the Messiah;
Imperial Rome the mistress of the worIi
under the Caesars and known az the
Eternal City the pillars of Hercules. as
the two peaks which guard the entrance
to the Mediterranean were called, which
had behind them in olden times the thea
ter Of the worlds activities. while in
modern days they beckon mariners to
the great waste of waters beyond.
We saw Teneriffe towering more than
1900 feet into the blue, awing the an
ixf to low If
heaven and winning a Humboldt with its
! varied fora and magnificent outlook
which. in clear days extended even to the
shores Of the African continent.
| I'VE followed Christopher Columbus
from Palos, Spain to San Salvador of the
| new world and gaZed with deepest in
| terest at the lonely palm-crowned isle
where first amid the strains of the TIE
/ Deum, was unfurled the banner Of Cas-
| tile.
THE seven months along the northern
eastern and western shores Of South
| America were relived-the mouth of the
! Orinoco, Of the mighty Amazon, of the
| Plata; over 30 days battle with death in
| connection with rounding the Horn; and
then the awfulness Of the Andes as occa.
| sionaily the clouds would roll back re.
vealing such staggering heights that Ian
| guage utterly fails to describe the stu.
pendous majesty Of the scene. And Their
the depths beneath US, In one place more
than 1900 feet nearly nine miles.
And when we sailed in a great hall
circle over the Pacific what length ant
breadth to the mighty waters! More
than 1000 miles from continent to CONT
nent. from America in the South to Aus
tralia far away in the Orient. And these
waters not only roar against the ice bar
riers OF Antarctic: they sweep north
! ward without interruption to the NORTH
Pole-a distance Of more than 10000 miles
"And then the sight Of the little whit
yacht anchored In perfect safety in har
Dor after harbor across this might,
stretch Of waters-anchored where for
merly bowling savages held sway ant
the orgies Of the cannibal feast mad,
civilization shudder and sickened 1lu
mainly.
THE secret Of this Transformation
The gospel which is the power Of God.
No other explanation is possible; an,
Savage Island with tho Marquessas, So
ciety. Cook. Tonga. New Hebrides an,
Fill groups have voice unique, an,
irresistible to any honest man.
There were days Of pleasure on tn
hill'-shooting wild pigeons on the islam
Of Juan Fernandez; wild geese in Pata
gonia: wild goats along the heights Q
Mas-o-fuera; wild cattle on this island
seal elephants on that: hippopotami o
the Tango wher ferocious wild beast
abount on every hand.
I'VE saw the wonders Of the deep
, fine salmon on the west coast Of Afric
Weighing 90 pounds. a rock cod from tn
! INDIAN ocean Weighing 70 pounds, q mar