A trip to the Orient; a voyage on the steamer Ecuador, Honolulu, among islands of the Pacific, the mandate islands of Japan . moorings out through the Golden Gate andSouth Westward toward the Hawaiian Islands. We watched with much amusement from theupper deck the stowing away of the Chinesewho were going back to China for the cele-bration of the Chinese New Year, or to takethe bones of their dead to rest in their ancestralgraveyards. Our cargo consisted of flour, which we exportto Japan in great quantities, cotton, cannedgoods, trunks, etc.; in addition we had on boarda great amount of silver
A trip to the Orient; a voyage on the steamer Ecuador, Honolulu, among islands of the Pacific, the mandate islands of Japan . moorings out through the Golden Gate andSouth Westward toward the Hawaiian Islands. We watched with much amusement from theupper deck the stowing away of the Chinesewho were going back to China for the cele-bration of the Chinese New Year, or to takethe bones of their dead to rest in their ancestralgraveyards. Our cargo consisted of flour, which we exportto Japan in great quantities, cotton, cannedgoods, trunks, etc.; in addition we had on boarda great amount of silver bullion, to be unloadedat Hong Kong. Among our passengers weremany Missionaries, men and women, old andyoung, over half of them bound for were the tales they told of escapes fromdeath as they fled from the fury of the heathenChinese, at the time of the Boxer rebellion, whothirsted after the blood of ^^foreign devils. Insurance agents from America, Raymond & ON SHIPBOAKD 13 Whitcomb tourists, commercial travelers fromAmerica, England, France, traders in silks,furs, straw braid, tea, teakwood and pearl, ex-. The Quaintness and Mystery of the Orient Are Found inChinatown porters and importers, were much in evidence,bound for the Orient, all helping with the aidof steam and electricity, to speed the way ofthe viewers of the world. The Pacific is a lonesome sea to traverse; asail is seldom sighted; only an occasional whaleor school of porpoises break the tedious monot-ony, and make the traveler forget, for the mo-ment, its vastness. 14 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT A heavy swell attended us for the first fourdays out; then the weather became calm, thecool air gave way to a touch of summer, and thelast two days were tranquil and life on deckdelightful, for we were under the lee of theHawaiian Islands, two thousand miles andseven davs from San Francisco.
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