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THK DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTFETOWN, JANUARY 2, 1900

The following letter is from one of tha Charlottetowa boys with the Canadian contingent.

8. 8. Sanpixiay, Now 16, 1899-

Dean Morner,—After all my hustling to get letters ready imtime to be mailed jasc Sunday at the Cape Verde Islands we quietly eailed past and the captain never even tried to send any mailashore. How- ever,we have been told that it is likely that letters delivered at St. Vincent might net reach Canada any sooner than those leay- ing the Cape, as there are vo steamers rco- ning from the Isjunds to England and the only way mail could be forwarded weuld be by a passing steamer. The Cape Verde Islande, judging by what we saw of them, are simply solid reck. Port St. Vin- cent has # ratuer fine harbor, and the eitu- ation of its light house, om asolitary rock eeveral bundred feet high, makes a very pretty piece of scenery. We passed through on Sunday forenoon and signaled our name and destination toa warship in the barbor. Mr. Fullerton said that in hie opinion the fact of our baving passed threugh would be announced in the Char- lottetown churches that eame evening. Of course we were all disappointed when it was found that nothing would be gained by mailing our letters there; but this morn- ing @ eteamer from Cape Town to Liver- pool came in sight about five o’cleek. She really was sighted at 4.30 but we did nct get on deck until five. I don’t know the steamer’s pame but aiter sailing round us fore while we sent offa boatwish the mail, Of course there was great excite- ment Oa our ship for a time and when our boat returned the war mews which spread through the ship was wonderful, Sicories to noend and al) to the effect that the British were baving the worst of it. Theve yarns were current allthe ferenoon until someone came slong with the latest paper from Cape Town, dated October 28:h, two days before we left Queber. That setiled ail cbe talk, ( There bis beeaa change made in our daily programme tince I wrote the laet leuier, ‘Show legs’ new eounds at 5a. m half av hcur earlier than before, and lights

are outat9 a. m. All the fellows who were sleeping in bucks one ard two deck= below us, are vow spinding the night on

: deck, and from lights out till reveille every adh ef space up above is occupied. The weather is perfectiv fine, but the heat is awfu). At 10 o'clock thie morning it was 106 in the shade and would be five or «ix | degrees higher later on in the day. Weere not sllowed‘o wear anything but shirt, peute acd cap; shirt sleeves ro'led above the elbows snd pants above the knee. Asa result ecarcely a fellow on the shipis clear of blieters. Many of them are poulticed up while others simply rub on come oil. My own legs and aims are bad, but I have not done anything to them yet You mustaleo coneider that the whole main deck is cOveréd with burning hot steam pipes aad it is bard work to go the length of it through the crowd without stepping on eomething too hotto be comfortable. Pcor Bowness seems to be having hard luck. To-day one of the Officers horses nearly tore the firat fioger of hie righi band off—smashed it up badly —and en hie way back frem the hospital where he went to haye it fixed he eteppea

Om a pipe and now his left foot is burned 80 badly that he can’t let it touch the

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We are all growing to like thie thing very much. Grub :s improving slightly; but we are also getting more ueed to it. Oo two different days they gave us por~ ridge, aod! bad four big plat:s of it each timae. Then our drill is more interestin g, anda great deal easier than formerly ae we are in smooth water aad the motien of

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WITH THE ISLAND CONTINGENT

Letters Written at Cape Town and on the Sardinian.

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What the Island Boys Have Been Doing Since They Left Quebec.

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I never imagined that the ocean could be so emooth. Some days there is not a eign of & wave, everything just like a big sheet of glaes, but those are the days when the heat make itself felt. The captain says we will cross the line temorrow or Satur- day and after that it will gradually become less warm. But J den’t mind the heat at all. A gang of men are now dyeing our helmeig apd havereacke with coffee. A light coffee color is what our khaki uni- form will be, and the ebipis preperly decorated with long strings of them hang- ing up todry. Forgot to mention that I sent my boots home from Quebec with seme buttons ineide one of them. Keep the buttons if yon have not already given them away. To-day I have been op fatigue duty since nine o’cleck, scrubbing and waehivg, carrying beer and liqaor to the officers quarters aod bringing up ship supplies. ‘lwelve men are choeen every day for this work and to-day ‘t was our turo. I will be en watch to-night for twelve hours, but with thie sortof weather itis pleasant to be on deek al! night even tbough they won’t allew us sleep or smoke. Will stop now until another spare ha'i hour comes, Evunpay, Nov. 19,

Shortly after I stopped writing en Thursday we wete alarmed by the whistle blowing for about ten minutes. On try- ing ‘Ofind out what the trouble was we were told thai the equator was in front of us. Anumber of bombs were exploded, band:played and flags ruo up. At night theebip’s crew indulged in the old game ot introducing greenhorns to Father Nep- tune; Several of them dressed up, and one who acted as barber shaved quite a number, neing a bucket of water, a tar brusk and piece of iron hcop. Many of the boys gave him a job and paid 10 cents per share, thus letting the crew earn a little extra money. Instead of being on waich on Thursdey nigbt 1 was on guard. The difference is that while the watch only have to hang round deck and see that nothing goes wrong, the guards are ported and must not move from their places. Watch is a twelve-bour ecuty and guard is twenty-four, two heurs, on aud four eff. Today we are three hundred wiles east of Ascension Isiand, and cons quently about a thousand from Africa. The captain ex- pects to reach Cape Town on Wedueaday week, teu days from now. We were at noon teday just 4,777 knots from Quebec, and have stil] 2,253 knote to go, It eeems quite a long distance from home, but the most of it is ever. Ourcolone! thinks we will not be at Cape Town more than a few hours. He sisosays we are going to see eervice, but none of the other officers agree with bim. One thirg that amused me much on Thursday mgbt was the dropping of a burning mateh by someone from the main deck acd it flew into Otter’s 1O_m, where a Ict of very fiimsy atuff lke cheese-cloth was pile?. Mr. Fullerton says they bad quite a time putting out the bleze. But since then they kave oeen tpringing fire drill on us every possible chance. It seems funny to do this when our voyage ia almost over, especially when Hutton ordered it to be done at the very start. The lJatect orders are that ham- mocks have to be stowed at 5 o’clock, though I don’t see any rense in it, as re- veille does not sound any earlier.

Mr. Fullerton is the best “chap” in the ship, for he comes down every day when

any of usare ofl duty and gives us all the |

news about what is going on. Weeks is acting like a chump, and when we get home you won't hear

very many of the boys call him “ Our gallant commander.” He never shows his nose around our quarter, and seldom

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speske to any of (Le boyr,"unlece tis to] abuse them, while all the cflice + .f che other comparvies are continually round among their men. Qar lieutenants are fairly good, but we expected Weeks 1o act at least like any other officer.

Tuesday, Noy. 21.—We bad our turn shooting yesterday, and the Island boys made an average of 354 out of a possible 40. My ecore was 36, just high enough to class me with the best shots who are to have the first ehance if we do any ecrap- ping. Although we are kep! preity busy there is nothing to write abou’. If we were in a towa I might be able to tell you something interesting ; but here it is the same thing over and over every day. } Then again, a fellow can’t write a decent letter when be has todo just a few lines at a time, uud is, moreover, always sleepy. You will probably not receive this uatil the end of the year,so | will close by wish- ing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and wiil wish myself as good a dinner as you wil! have,

Nov. 27.—Almost another week has gone siace I wrote this letter, aod now we are within # respectable distance of Cape Town. Im the lart 24 hours we went nearly 300 miler, and are doing fairly well to-day. Expect to eee land tomorrow morning, and to anchor on Wednesday. Drill hes bees almost uropped lately —only the absolutely green ones have to turn ont. The rest of us have been busy at other things, On Wednesday we hada kit in- spection, when every man had to account for everything given to him. Apsything miesing must be psid for, and it was amusing to see fellows borrewing what~ ever they were shortof. Af:er that we had to pack our kit bag-, valisee aud haversacks as ordered. [i is quite in - teresting work, for now we are able to get anytbing we may happen to need withont disturbing the rest of the stuff. We bave received another patr of heavy boots pugareee for our helmete, badges for nelmet and tunic, bandolier or cartridge, belt, another snit of underwear, shirt, pair cf socks, towel ard soap. Then they have lately been finding more stuff for us and are serving out lots of tobacco—big pound tins of good emoking, Meyo’e chew- ing, McDomald’s and lots of other brands. We get two cigars daily, preserves of some sort every two days, and yesterday we actually had sardines aod miuce meat. Cao Thureday we signed tbe ,ay-rolland got our money, part in English gold and the rest in Canadian silver. The Island boys received $14.40, which ie 40 cents per day’ for 36 days orto the end of this month. The evenings now are getting quite coo! and there is great fighting for blankets im the room where the ham- mocke are stowed and aleoall round where we sleep. The usual plan now is to get a hammock right after enpper and carry it around until bedtime. But it does aot slways work, for yeeterday Alf. Riggs got one at two o'clock, and afier all bis watching it was stolen from him at 9.30 whente turned aroundto hang up hie coat. Weoften get up on deck in the evenioge to look at the stara and there are ecmeé very pretty coneteliations down

here. By farthe best is the Seuthern Cross which atu. corresponds to cur “dinper.”

We see it every evening an? ofien try to work cut other constejlations | from the reet of the stare. The Maxim gun equed are just coing their first firing

exerci3e ©: the quarter deck, aod ss of course everyone is up looking at them. I nearly forgot to

mention that I firmly believe this voyage

is going to help my eyes more than

all the doctors in the country. The

spectacles are stowed away and I some-~

times fee! like rooting them out for a? while eo that I may see things a

a litle better, but the headaches are | wonderfolly improved and hardly bother meat sll. We never dO much now by artificial light and that slong with the Jong distance probably accoutte for it. One evening I wicte a letter and was etapid "next day, but the headaches sre very tame affairs compared to what they were two months ago. Of course now and then it gets pretty bad bntdoes not last long, and I believe another month like ithe last one would make a perfect cure, and I am getting as fat asa pig. But that is only matural for the grub suits us pow and we eatlike hoge, No work at all to speak ef, but jusi lie around al! day or else be fixing up our kit which is not work but only one way of putting in time. Nearly a!] the boys aae fattening up and if we are oct set at very hard work at the Cape we will be in fine condition. Of course drilling hard at the very beginning would kil] us as we are pretty soft now; but almost every man On board is in per: fect health and by going slowly at firet will beable to stand almost anything.

Mr. T. C. James bas kindly permitted us to extract the following trom ai letter received by him from Rey. T. F. Fualler~ too :—

8S. 8. Sarpiniay, Nov. 29, 1899.—We are just off South Africa, although after a stare of an hour I cannot evem detect the lande This means a grest deal to us es we bave seen land only once since leaving the St. Lawrence, We expect to anchor

morrow, but the latter is uncertain. The Allans msde two contracte with the Dom-~ inion Government, ene to Cape Town the other from Cape Town to Durban.

Of the voyage I can only say that it bas lacked intereet from the etsndpoint of variety—internally, however much could be related, Three papers in Canada wil] give the routive in a very full manner accompanied by reslistc illustratioxe if the filmes are not destroyed in transit, the Montreal Star. Torontu Globe and Toronto Ma‘).

My duties have al] been performed under the most disegreeable conditions. ‘There ie no plaee for service, and no matter how bard it blowe the troope are asseembied for worthip. They have, however, teen com- paratively light Fortuvately for al! con- cerned there hes been no rough weather, avd the coolness of the atmosphere has

astonished the captain beyond mearure.

the men would have been battened dowa an epidemic of some kind would assuredly have broken out. As it is we have a clean bill of health. This is a great thing to ray, a8 all are agreed that we sre carrying 1200 souls, when our sccommodation 1¢ oniy «qualio halfthe number. My own health with e slight abatement, hase been exceptionally good all through the voyage.

The Island boys are ali well. I should say, not only of them, but also of a great

part of the contingent,that the “romance’’

of theexpedition bas largely gone into the rast, and all sre beginning to realize that this ig pot a game of ci izem seldiery bu the genuine “fommy Aitkins.”

W bat my course may be at present mo- ment I cannot say. The kirk is always with me. I trust all are well and sl! going on well. If] get time and quiet in camp in Cape Town, I shall write you fully, as by that time, I shall know what I havetodo. Give my kind regards to ali enquiring friends. With vest wishes I am yours sincerely,

T. F. Fourerrox,

».S.— We are al) writing tocaich the English ,mail, add the racket is something undeecribable.

T.F.F

Tt is evident thai the letters were sent direct from the Sardinian to the mail which was just leaving when the sieamer gotin. Letters from the contingent may now be expected weekly or furtnightly, ac- cording to tie despaich of mails from the Cape.

Mrs. Weekes, wife of Major Weeke, has received a letter from ber busband dated at Cape Town on the 30th Nov. at 4 30 a. m. She has kindly permitied Tae Exam 1NER to make the following extract from the letter :—-

“We arrived yesterday afternoon, al! well, after being on the water for 30 days. I weot up town with Rev. Mr. Ful erton, a8 £00D as we were permitted, to send you a cablegram ‘‘A]] Well,” but wnen we got up the office was closed to the public end I had ao further opportunity to cable you.

“We had a eplendid voyage after leaving the banks of Newfoundland. TF was not seasick for an instant,

‘Last night we learned that we had to march to the frontat once with the Black Watch aud the Seaforth Highlanders, a great compliment to the Canadiaas which all on board appreciated.

**] intended wri ing you a long descrip- tion giving details of cur voyage, bu: we being hurried off e0 quickly I cannet do 80 this merning. I w.!] write you a long letter before we goto the front telling you all that bagibaued on the way out. I have been so busy forthe past few days on board that I had to put off writing until we landed, and now that we have arrived time is more precious sti!!,

“T enelose you a coin with Oom P..u ° head on it, which some one threw to meo the pier in exchange for a Canadian coin

_“*We recived @ grand reception on ar rival frem the other sbips at the @ape.

Mr. Fullerton telis me he wrote ia his letter a loog account of the voyage, 80 you can see Mre. Fullerton about it. Mre Fullerton is quite av acquisition, and is much liked.

“We all realize the importance of our missicn snd know that some of us will not come hack; but one and #1] of:he P. E. Islanders at avy rate are keen and de- termined tudo nodishonourto Caoada.’

“Are. Fullerten has received a letter from ber husband saying that he was in good health and all the Island boys were well The letter wae written om board the Sardinian just before ber arrival at Cape Town.

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