Nine months on a cruise and experiences in Nicaragua . planted with trees and vines which now cover the oncebare hills with a verdant and luxurious growth. SpotlessTown realized gives one who has not seen this place somefaint idea of the clean appearance of its buildings and the ricsha men are lined up every morning before theystart out after fares, and examined to see if person, clothing andvehicle are clean and neat. This may be done elsewhere in Chi-na, but if so, we do not know it. Und, ach Himmel; der so gutes Bier das ist hiergemacht!Never did suds and limburger meet on bett
Nine months on a cruise and experiences in Nicaragua . planted with trees and vines which now cover the oncebare hills with a verdant and luxurious growth. SpotlessTown realized gives one who has not seen this place somefaint idea of the clean appearance of its buildings and the ricsha men are lined up every morning before theystart out after fares, and examined to see if person, clothing andvehicle are clean and neat. This may be done elsewhere in Chi-na, but if so, we do not know it. Und, ach Himmel; der so gutes Bier das ist hiergemacht!Never did suds and limburger meet on better terms than good stuff is brewed right in town, though there is plentybrought over from the Fatherland for those who prefer thatbrew, and the limburger does not seem to be the worse for com-ing oversea in cans. Several of the vessels of the German fleet were lying inthe roads. S. M. S. Scharnhorst, Flagship of Vice Admiral , S. M. S. Gneisenau, S. M. S. Nurnberg, and Emden,and two torpedo boats, the Taku and The Scharnhorst. CHINA 75 and Gneisenan are slightly smaller than the California andSouth Dakota; the Emden is about the type of the Albany, andthe torpedo boats are the usual type of that class of vessel. lyiberty was granted from 1:30 p. m. to midnight everyday of our stay. The first night, Monday, a heavy storm arosewhich prevented the landing of boats from the ships, so we hadto stay ashore all night. This experience demonstrated con-clusively that the town could not provide sleeping accomoda-tions for any great number of men. Many of us slept on tables,chairs, or even the floor, in order to obtain shelter from the tor-rents of rain. The German sailors proved to be ideal comrades. It tookno time at all for the boys of the two nations to meet on themost cordial terms. It was astonishing how many of our mencould talk German well enough to get on famously in a placewhere even the ricsha men speak that language. There musthave been two or three hun
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