The old world and its ways

CHAPTER I.

CROSSING THE PACIFIC--HAWAII.

There is rest in an ocean voyage. The receding shores shut out the hum of the busy world; the expanse of water soothes the eye by its very vastness; the breaking of the waves is music to the ear and there is medicine for the nerves in the salt sea breezes that invite to sleep. At first one is disturbed--sometimes quite so--by the motion...