The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-02-03
LYNDEN BOY TRAVELS
OVER SEVEN: SEAS
Louis Larson Writes of Experiences
In Distant Countries and Foreign
Ports

How Lynden boy travelled over
the Seven Seas. is told this week fol
the Tribune by Louis Larson, who has
just returned from a long voyage.
The following is a summary of Lar.
sons experiences:
In June, 1917, shipped on a ves-
sci called the Victoria. 1t ran to
Nome, Alaska. Nome is a small town
on the Bering Sea. 1t is built on the
beach. 1t has no docks because the
ice would carry them away each win
ter.
Next I shipped on a vessel called
the Cordova, which ran to a place
called Kotzebue Sound. This place Is
a little way above Bering Strait. 1t
is sixty miles inside the Arctic circle.
After that I was. on a few ships
running to Southeastern Alaska, un-
til April. 1918, when l shipped on a
three-masted bark called the George
Curtis" The ship stopped at a place
called Johnson's Anchorage, but the
crew went on to a cannery at Lock-
anak. JohnsOn's. Anchorage is in
Bristol Bay, which is in the Bering
Sea. We were twenty-five days 60
ing to Bristol Bay, while it takes a
steamer only six days to make the
trip. Then we were stuck in the Ice
for thirty days, but after the ice
broke up and We got to Johnson's
Anchorage. eleven others and I went
up to the cannery in two small boats.
The cannery was about seventy-five
miles up the Kvitchak river. After
about q week a tug boat brought the
rest of the crew up. In the fall, after
the canning was all done we sailed
home. 1 operated wireless station
there at Lockanok.
In October, 1919, I shipped on a
motorship called the Babinda. We
went to Portland, Oregon, and loaded
lumber for Bombay, India. We sail
ed on the twentieth and on the twen-
ty-eighth we stopped at Honolulu for
oil We were there just one day,
but during that time I walked around
most of the town. and also out to
Waikiki beach. The town isn't very
large. There are few street cars.
The inha bitants are mostly Japanese.
/ saw but very few Hawaiians. Wal
kiki Beach is very narrow and not
very long. You wouldn't believe at
first that you were there If it wasn't
for a sign pointing to it. as you get
off the street car. That night we
left for Manila. where we stopped
and took on some more oil.
Manila has a very good harbor
and many docks. The town is pretty
big, but the streets are very narrow
and very crooked. There seem to be
very few Japs there. The heat was
about 100 degrees. Eight days lat
er we arrived at Singapore, which is
located on the equator. We only
stopped to take oil and the oil docks
were on an island two miles from the
city I saw nothing of Singapore. On
December 11th we arrived at Bom-
bay. where we were one month un-
loading the lumber.
Bombay is supposed to have a pop
MA ron of about two million out tho
people say it is impossibi, to tell ex'
actIy. They are small brown peo-
ple, and there are a great number OF
castles or tribes. Each tribe has
something about them a little differ
ent than the others, but they all seem
to wear about the same kind OF
clothes. These consist of turban
around the head and another wrap
ped around their body. These tur-
bans are made OF cloth about two
feet wide and ten feet long, the col
or of them depending upon the wear
er's caste. Sometimes they wear san
dals, but usually they go barefoot
The women wear one of these tur
hans wrapped around them, but moth
irr on their h,ll, and they seem tc
always go barcsoOtca. The womer
wear rings arol.;ld their ankles ant
arms and some times in their nos'
,nd ears.
One thing about these Hindoo'
around Bombay and Calcutta is tina
very few of them die Of old age. Som'
Of them die of disease, but most o
them starve to death. At nigh
when YOU are walking in the street,
one has to watch out or he will stel
nm some of them who are sleepinl
on the sidewalks. On one particu
lar street in Bombay for about mill
there will be a Hindoo about ever.
ten feet, sleeping on the cement side
walk. apparently because he has n
other place to sleep.
Z After we left there we were apou
two weeks going to Calcutta, whicl
ia about one hundred and fifty mile
nm the Hoodle River, a branch OF tn
Ganses. Calcutta is not as large q