Pueblo chieftain., 1922-01-15
A M'ClfllANO WRITES
OF A SEA VOYAGE
Continued from Preceding P.se3

the trees are i've years olo tHcy arc
supposed to be constant bearers for
they begin tapping up four or five feet
from the ground and take one-fourth
or one-half way around the tree and
that is tapped daily for about fifteen
months. then the same u repeated on
the other side and when that side has
been used fifteen months the first Is
ready again. Good rubber men say 1t
is we'll to let the trees have rest
every four or five years for one year.
Kuala Lumpur lies half way between
Singapore and Penang, a city OF about
$4,000 people, 5000 of whom are Euro
peans for 1t is the capital Of the Fed
Grated Malay states and Official resi-
dence OF the general secretary who is
the official head. while each state has
q governor. all of whom are appointed
by the crown. The city has some very
good business buildings which are built
in Moorish style and really attractive.
1t is ten hours by express from kuala
Lumpur to Penang much OF the way
thru rubber estates bux part OF the
way thru the tin mining districts
where are all methods Of mining from
the most primitive where women carry
the earth in baskets on q bamboo pole,
to q modern American bucket dredge
that handles thousands Of yards day
These mines were worked more than
5000 years ago and have been worked
more or less ever since and arc still
paying even at the low prices
Penang IL a port Of call for many
OF the over seas vessels. 10 English
governed. a city Of 10000. chinese
predominating. It is on an island and
tho built on the low ground tho back
tho top OF which Is the small hotel. The
Craig. / saw but little Of Penang for
I arrived at p. m. and left the next
morning at II, but did get to the mark
1t and found mangosteens, that most
delicious Of all fruits and II 1t was
mAngosteen the serpent Offered Eve
she would have been an awful chump
had ehe refused. and all her daughters
who have never tasted 1t have not had
the best the world. can SNe. 1t grows
on a tree, is almost the shape OF an
apple. has a pulpy rind which !s hard
to cut. but the proper way Is to en-
circle It with a bharp knife. not going
apart, in one Of them the white gela-
tinous globe will stay and put that In
your mouth and all your dreams OF
ambroHal fruit are realized. 1t Is
like nothing else and II some wise
manufacturer of syrups can get tho
flavor, his fortune is made.
It IL 7e4 miles by sea from Penang
to RanEoon which Is the capital and
commercial city and port for all Bur-
NAH. It is on the RanGoon river in
tho delta of tho Irrawaddy which II to
Burmah what the Nile was to Egypt
and the Mississippi seventy years ago
was to the United States. But It IL
losing its prestige and business for 4
railroad now runs from Rangoon north
about 500 miles. 1t 10 1oS miles by river
from Rangoon to MandAlAy and 3Se
miles by rail. Tho steamer takes over
eight days while the railroad does II
in 20 hours. 1nasmuch as 1t was not the
nd sNN does ShA
Journey now Sir to be contrary I
took the steamer Ceylon Captain
Guinen) the next morning after arriv-
ing In Rangoon and for eight days
and nights II was my home ad pleas
ant, restful, comfortable and most In.
terestink It proved to be. Tho ceylop
u one OF the fast mail boats 3es feet
long 40 feet wide. built of steel with
light draft, a side wheeler and capable
Of carrying 1000 natives. "a second and
Is irst class passengers and the boat
fare without food IS nine, thirty-eiEht
A rupee 10 worth about IS cents gold
and for hve meals day first class
you pay 81 rupees, which figures Just
about the same as daily hotel rates in
Rangoon. Tho first 400 or moro miles
10 deltaic with here and there green
rico flelds and then great reaches OF
water miles wide and one often
wonders which way will We so. As
We passed out OF sight OF the Golden
top OF that greatest OF all pagodas.
Tho Shwe Dagon, I decided ! would
keep count OF the pagodas on the way
for we were supposed TO travel only in
the day time. After leaving Rapgoon l
could look back and count seven in
the city and three outside and before
night I had found four more. thu
next day seven, the next eleven, the
next sixteen. and the next 1 stood on
fhA do~k and counted SayanfV-Hve.
while the steamer lay at anchor and
in tho side Of cliff were hundreds of
statutes OF the Budda carved in re-
eesses in the living rock. and on the
seventh day we reached the ancient
city of Pagan where a most gentle-
manly and highly educated Burmese
says there were 5000 pagodas. Looking
At them from tho deck OF the steamer
and from hill overlooking portion
Of the ancient city will not dispute
him and then on the peaks in the val
ieys and canons and on the nats are
pasodas, and more pagodas. This
seems to be Il country of p's-priests,
pagodas, plenty. possibilities and other
p's which l refuse to write or believe.
The natives are little moro brorxy
than tho Javenese and far moro cheer
fui and happy. Their homes are but
novels. The men and women smile at
each other and look pleasant at
strangers and the children romp and
play and swim. Riddles no. much more
that the Presbyterian span long
are seen in the water clinsing to their
elders or crawling in tho shadows.
The people seem to have no regular
habits. they cat, sleep, work. play. pray
or swim as fancy leads them. The men
and women wear the same two gar
ments skirt and blouse Loongyi
and Aingyee). Tho men wear hand
kerchief around their heads while tho
women 80 bare headed and do their
wealth OF hair in birds nest tn top
OF the head and fasten their looneyi
dextrously on the hip while the men
tuck theirs in front not always hiding
the navel. The well dressed wear too
slippers while the common people go
bare foot. The men and boys smoke
cigars and cigarets native made while
the women and girls smoke what they
call cheroot about 7 inches long and
IN inches IN diameter at the IRE end
composed Of the cuttings OF a certain