. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . the sistership to the Matsonia upon which we are Maui is north bound, to San Francisco. Wetransferred mail. I hope it did not go to thebottom of the sea. The transfer and its attend-ing incidents Avere a thrilling sight. It hadrained during the afternoon and the sea wasfairly rough. As night came on, it looked allthe blacker and more threatening. For a longwhile we peered ahead into the darkness thruthe mist and the fog anxious to catch a glimpseof the oncoming ship. The mists raised, the newmoon shone faintly
. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . the sistership to the Matsonia upon which we are Maui is north bound, to San Francisco. Wetransferred mail. I hope it did not go to thebottom of the sea. The transfer and its attend-ing incidents Avere a thrilling sight. It hadrained during the afternoon and the sea wasfairly rough. As night came on, it looked allthe blacker and more threatening. For a longwhile we peered ahead into the darkness thruthe mist and the fog anxious to catch a glimpseof the oncoming ship. The mists raised, the newmoon shone faintly beliid the clouds and up over 58 A TRIP TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS the liorizon came the Maui, her decks and portsabhize with light. It was a beautiful sightviewing it across the rolling waves, but not oneof us landlubbers who were on the ship Initwondered how it would be possible to launcha boat from either ship and carry the mailacross, for I had been told during the afternoonby one of the officers of our ship that the twobig boats would not be brought nearer to each. PEGGY The movie actress, who involuntarily staged a thrilling sea scene for us. other than one-half to three-quarters of a mileon such a sea. But, the mail was not all that was to betransferred. A young woman had come out onthe Maui to meet us and she, too, was to betransferred. That meant that the Maui would])ut off a small boat and deliver the mail andthe young woman, and get our mail. On our ship, however, another small boatwas made ready for immediate launching inthe event of a call for help. The big ships ap- WITH WORLDS PRKSS CONGRESS 59 proacliod cncli other slowly until they werenearer than a half niih ai)art, we thought. Thesearch lii»ht from our ship played over the sidesof the Maui fiom stem to stern foi- several mo-ments. We were so close that we conld see thepeople on tlie other vessel. Suddenly we saw the boat being low^eredfrom the Mani. There were six or eight peoplein it a^; near as w^e conld see.
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