Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-09-19

nau started on our way TO the dark
continent to do agricultural mission
airy work, l suppose you have Won
dered at times whether or not we ar
rived safely at our destination. OF
course now that the war is over the
dangers of ocean travel are past ca.
After much delay we sailed from
| New York May 8, on that hoo
dooed ship, the City of Lahore, -
which had been on fire twice and
had lain for months ON the bottom
of New York harbor before being
raised and repaired This was its
first voyage since that time.
The voyage was uneventful except
that the Chinese stewards were
rather warlike. Three different
times while waiting on our tables
il the dining room they started for
each other with meat cleyers, butcher
Knives, etc. The second day cut
from Capetown one of them was put
in irons for setting fire to the ship.
We had a very pleasant voyage
and neither of us was troubled with
sea sickness, but a great many of
| the passengers were, SO that we
gained some idea of the attending
sensations by seeing them try to
live through it. One man said: AT
first | was afraid | was going to
die, but now I'm afraid | won t.
We passed through several schools
of leaping porpoises and flying fish
ronte took us direct from New York
10 the Cape Verde Islands, a dis
lance of 1850 miles, which we made
ia II days. We stopped at St Vim
cent two days taking on coal and sup
Irhes, then continued on to Cape
town direct, thus missing the AS
cension Island end ST Helena. We
made 2947 miles from Care Verde
to Capetown in 1412 days, reaching
there just Is days after leaving New
York
The voyage from New York to
Capetown was very enjoyable from
social standpoint. Most of the
$50 passengers were Yankees. We
organized sports and entertain
ment committee, and along with con
ccrts and parties a regular contest
tournament was held extending over
three weeks. Small prizes were
purchased at ST. Vincent for the diff
forent events. Mrs. Alvcrd and my
self won four first and two second
places in the events. A swimming
pool was rugged up on deck and we
had great fun in the water. Every
evening the missionaries gathered
together to sing hymns and have
short season of prayer. Some pas
sengers were remarking on the calm
voyage we were having when one OF
them said That's easy to account
for with all these missionaries pray
ing daily for safe voyage"
We stayed five days at Capotown
while the ship was discharging car
so, during which time we had very
enjoyable time. The good people of
Capetown arranged reception for
the 2S missionaries On board ship.
which was held at the Y. NJ. c. A.
building, The second day they had
al. excursion Tor us out to Camps
Bay, pleasure resort. which we all
enjoyed very much, On the third
day they took us out to Groote
Schuur TO see the Cecil Rhodes me-
mcrial. One afternoon Mrs. Alyord
and myself climbed Lion Head, a
high peak overlooking Caretown.
and collected some leaves from the
silver leaf tree. These trees are
found no where else in the world
except ON Lion Head and Table
mountain, overlooking Capetown.
From there we sailed up the east
coast OF Africa to Durham a diatance
OF $40 miles in three days. havn
the land in sight most of the way
We arrived outside the harbor after
sunset and had to anchor there over
night. The electric lights from the
city and surrounding hills looked
homelike. 1t was hard TO believe
that this was the Africa we had read
so much about Durham is a modern
city with paved streets, electric
liehts and street cars. We saw many
automobiles practically all American
made, the Ford as usual predoml
mating The distinctive feature o
Durham was the big husky Zulu jim
rickashraw boy with his decorative
costume and headdress. We foun,
upon visiting the American Boar,
Mission schools al Inanda and Aman