"Our new Captain is all right and not near as strict or severe as Schroeder, but he is not the sailor that Schroeder was.  When we are in port he is ashore all the time and comes back pretty well loaded down.  You know he is a cousin of Josh Sharps, but I would not mention the fact to Sharp, about him getting full.  He had all the irons taken off the prisoners."

"It took us about six hours to make the run from Port Angeles up here and we had a fine day for the trip.  The water in the Sound is as smooth as a mill pond.  It would be fine sailing if we would strike that sort of wether allthe time.  There were hundreds of boats of all sorts to meet us as we came into Elliot Bay as they call the Harbor.  It is a fine natural harbor, and from two hundred to four hundred feet of water wherever you take a sounding.  All the ships are anchored about three blocks away from the shore andwe can see the city very plainly.  They have the best electrical display on the shore that I have so far seen.  Welcome signs are numerous and one hotel is a blaze of light, outlining all the curves of the building.

The Japanese are very demonstrative and set off about four thousand dollars worth of fire works last night.  They chartered a boat and came out to meet us waving American Flags."