The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-03-30
LLOYD HUNT TELLS
OF ORIENTAL TRIP

E. e. Hunt, manager of the Cash
Carry Grocery, is in receipt of mes
sage from his son, Lloyd, who is the
radio operator on the Portland built
shipping board steamer Bearport, stat
ing that they had rough voyage
across the Pacific. The steamer ar.
rived in Japan early in March, shifted
to China and Manchurian ports. thence
TO India for a full cargo of Java sugar,
rice, jute and other such harvest prod
uct, moving from the Philippines. he
says:
"In Japan cities, passengers travel
about the streets in little two-wheeled
carriages called jinrikishas, drawn by
men. The Islands are very mountain
volcanoes and hot springs are on the
great wall which is 1900 miles long,
much of which is standing. Mongolia
used to be the home of robbers, and
along time ago one Of the emperors
of China had this wall built to protect
his people from these marauders.
am bringing home one of the old.
| black, sun-dried adobe straw bricks
from this wall, also some of the Man
churian walnuts from Dairen.
India, not so large as our u. S. A.,
has about four times as many people.
This is the country where they have
great jungles, abounding with tiger.
leopard, elephant, hyena, rhinoceros.
monkeys, beautiful birds and the CO.
bra, the most poisonous snake known.
1t is fun to see the big elephants carry
the burdens, kneel for their load of
passengers and drag the heavy tim
bers. am told the cat, dog. horse,
sheep, OK. hog and chicken originally
came from this part of Asia, accom-
panying the people to Europe and
thence to America.
MANY of the grains, fruits and veg
etables came originally from this re-
gion. The magnificent marble palaces,
temples and tombs built by the native
kings are sight long to be remem-
bered. The Ganges valley is very fer
tile. having many irrigating canals.
and on the Dekkan plateau are large
tanks to store the water which falls in
the wet season. You should see the
narrow guage railroad that leads to
hill stations as the English towns in
the mountains are called. The temples
on the Ganges are great. massive
structures and a design of art and
beauty. The Hindus manufacture fine
shawls, carpets, rugs, fine gold en-
briodery thread and beautiful jewelry.
They have some fine modern factories,
but most of their factory-made goods
comes from Europe.
''I am hoping to see one of the leper
colonies. India. it is said. has 300, 900
lepers. They are trying to cure them
with chaulmoogra oil. which is ex-
tracted from a nut growing on the
hydnocarpus tree, variety Of which |
is found on the island of Mindanao. 1t |
is educational to travel all over the |
world as | have done but long to be |
back to good old U. S. A., where peo-
pie do things right. Java is very hot. |
but most beautiful. Batavia, capital
of the Dutch East Indies, is where you |
see mosquitoes in great clouds; no
spring, summer or winter here. |
Feather weight clothing is in demand
here at all times. The governor-gen- |
erals palace at Batavia is one of the |
statliest and most beautiful buildings
have seen in my travels. The floors
are of cararra marble. Fluted Corin- |
THAN columns support the roof.