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Show GEO. M. HANSON WRITES FROM TASMANIA Geo. M Hanson of Ogden. writing to I. L. Reynolds, secretary of the Weber club, sends the following on his trip from New York to Tasmania: "Hobart. Tasmania. Jan. 30. 191 1" "My Dear Reynolds: From this, the most far away corner on the face of the earth, I greet you. Can you imagine im-agine a place 12,000 miles away from Cod's country. In another hemisphere, with a civilization similar to that found in an interior city of England 100 years ago? Well, that is just the way the aucient ch of Hobart ap-pears ap-pears to an American. The people say. , You no doubt fiud it slow aftor America." "Do vou get me. Steve?" "Not that the place is unattractive, for It Is a very beautiful city But wo have been used to living In the twentieth century, while here they are reluctant to leave the twelfth "Of course seven weeks of ocean travel Is bound to furnish more or less amusing Incidents Wo left Loudon with four parsons aboard and another got on at Marseilles. Whenever we had bad weather we would blame it on the parsons. An old skipper who was on his way to Bombay to bring a cargo boat loaded with Manganese ore to Baltimore said it was flying In the face of Providence to undertake under-take a voyage with five preachers aboard ' Barring the mu-h wother the iri,. was moBt enjoyable, everything was new and therefore Interesting. Til I tsaaa voyage across the Atlantic was with- lkfl out incident, except that the 'Ger- ifjaal mania' almost ran Into the headland tisaa above tbe Fastnet lighthouse, off the fssl southwestern coast of Ireland IH "I must tell you about the 'blue' IH man w ho crossed with us on the 'Ger- IH mania.' lie was an Englishman and IH once an officer In tbe cavalry. His Issaal horse fell on him and the pommel of i'saaa the saddle crushed his chest over his usaal heart. Some vein or artery was ruo- ebbbI tured and while he lay unconscious I his skin, including the iusido of nls E saal lip6. nose and eyelids, turned to deep blue-black His hair, however, was not affected and he looked decidedly uncanny with a white mustache and H white hair on a background of blue. i H The ship's surgeon said this was the H only case on record where a human H being survived after being .injured H as this man was. He was returning H to England, after appearing at some medical congress in America in tha interest of science. B "From London we had beautiful I weather through the Channel and across the Bay of Biscay. After passing pass-ing Ushant we were out of sight of laud for two days. Along the coasts of Spain and Portugal we kept close to the shore and saw distinctly Opor- , to. Finlsterre. St. Vincent and other capes and headlands, Lisbon we could Bee from the boat, but not distinctly. We passed through the Strait of Gibraltar Gib-raltar early In the morning and I was strongly reminded of the Golden Gate at San Francl6co. The old watch towers on both sides. Spain and Afri- , ca. were plainly visible. At 10 o'clock I we entered the harbor and spent I j about four hours visiting the town I and the Rock of Gibraltar. I |