The Arvada enterprise., 1921-05-26
ARTHUR WRITE TELLS Ys
NJ .tfA ABOUT HIS TRAVELS
On Board s. s. West Calumb, Z
Ht. March 81, 1871.

On Board S. s. West Calumb, q
~ ti. March 81, 1914.
Dear Sister: .is..
Cruising on the Arabian Sea
sounds well, doscn't 1t? I wish you
We're here to enjoy these glorious
sunshiny days on placid. sea of
wonderfully blue water. What n
delightfully."- lie this is. nothing to
do but sleep and eat. II am on a
cargo boat, one of the ". s. Ship
ping Boards great fleet, tho West
Calmub built in Los Angeles, new
boat, this is her second voyage. II
was n bit of good luck that I found
this boat at Suez. As a pay passen-
ger on 1t I am saving something
over II hundred dollars on the voy-
age to India. Ocean. rates ore al,
most prohibitive now, so l intend
travelling on cargo boats in the fu-
ture. 1t will mean n saving Of sew
eral hundred dollars by the time !
reach San Francisco. She had dis
charged cargo here of rubber from
Java and some sort Of nuts from
India from which ink is made. On
board ! found my engineer acquair-
tnnces. met the captain, fine
Swedish American, made arrange
ments for Lorentz to go rs work
away. that means he gets a dollar at
his destination, and I 60 as a my
guest. I put it that way for they
do treat me like n prince. Dec Of
'he';officers gave up his cabin. a
.lnrt airy one. there nrc no restric-
tions and no formalitics such as one
necessarily finds on n passenger
boat. This is the ideal way to ira
vel. The food is good, Chinese
cooks and stewards. The OFFICERS
md most of the crew are Americans.
number Of the seamcn are Greeks.
We will be fourteen dnys enroute
from ISuez to Karachi, Indin, a port
on tbs, west coast far up north near
the Baluchistnn frontier. We have
rpsssd Through the Gulf Of Snex, the
Red Sen, Strait .of Babel Madsb, the
Gulf Of .Adm, aud now ~ are cross
ing the Arabian Sea. From Knrnthi
I shall 20. to Aligarh to visit DR.. ana
Mrs. Lewis Chase. Enroutc ! shall
Visit the temples and tombN ht
Ajmcr. .Jaipur and st Agra the Fam.
Gus Tai Mahal and other mngnif'.
cent buildings there. Later ! shall
ace Delhi, ALnckncW. Allnlahad.
Bennres, Calcutta etc. I shall take
boat from Calcutta t. Cevlon. or on
TO Singapore, Sumntra,' Jayn, etc.
I konw you want to hero rome.
thing Of my trip to Egypt. What a
wonderful country il is, SO different
to all others that have seen. Never
have seen anything 10 eIunl ia
ancient temples and tombs. Cairo
is an interesting city, its street life
is very picturesque. There are some
fine old mosques, mnny centuries
old. and its museum is the finest IN
the world for Egyptian antiquities.
There one sees the mummics Of the
nncicnt kings and queens. two. three
or four thousand year old and in
what remarkable state of prcscrvn-
ton. Later in Upper Egypt wns
in the very tombs where these
bodies lay for thousands Ct years. l
The famous Pyramids Of Gizeh
nrc just outside of Cairo. mn hours
ride on the trnmwny. What struc-
TIRES they are, one Of them rising to
the height of dSi feet. How they
ever Transported md put in place
the huge blocks Of stone is IA myst-
cry. What authority the kinrs must
have possessed. II IL said TINT ns
many ns 100 thousand men we're nj
work at one time on n single pyrh
mid. II is calculated that about
1890 900 blocks Of stone, avcrnginR
about 2 10 tons were required for
the great Pyrnmid Of khcops. II
covers mn nrca Of thirteen ncrcs.
There nrc six groups OF pyramids
along the Nile. The next most in
tcrcstinp nrc those nj Sakbnra. Here
! saw the famous step pyramid. the
tomb Of the ancient king Ioscr.
about 5000 years old. n consists
of six stages from % TO AZ feet hloh
forming STEPS. This is IN" only one
40 constructed. Nearby on the dcs
cr' ! visited ,h famous Scrapcum, or
subtcrrnncnn tombs of Apis, the
ncrcd bull Of the god rtnb. which
was worshipcd in n spccinl tempt"
at Memphis. IL wns cmbalmed Ike
n human body and buried in this
gpecin!ly prepared tomb with Rrcn,
a