Identifier: strangepeoplescu00evan (find matches)
Title: Strange peoples & customs
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Adelaide Bee
Subjects: Children Missions
Publisher: Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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for the farm wagon, and packed their clothes and beds and dishes inside. Then they climbed in, and with the children on low seats where they could see, away they rattled. The roads were very rough, when there were any roads at all. Often there was only a bumpy trail through the woods or acrossthe prairie. Sometimes, in swampy places, there would be a road of logs, called a corduroy road. Then the wagon would go humpity-bumpity, which, if there was not too much of it, was great fun for the children. In America, such a thing as a smooth paved road in the country was seldom seen in those days. It took a long time to make a journey —a whole month to go as far as you can go in one day now, in a good train. The fathers and mothers were very tired sometimes: but the children were happy, with so many newthings to see every day. There were no steamships, either, only sailing vessels. And while those boats went to countries near and far away, they were propelled only by the wind, and went very slowly
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Statue of Columbus (28) TRAVEL A CENTURY AGO 29 at times. Often a boat sailing away from New York to the other side of the world would be gone three years. The captain would hardly know boys and girls when he came home again. A BRAVE SAILOR I am sure you have heard the story of Christopher Columbus. When he was a little boy, he used to play by the seashore, andwatch the ships. I will be a sailor, and sailon a ship, when I am a man, he said. His father wanted Christopher to be a weaver, like himself; but when he saw that the boy would surely go to sea when he was old enough, he sent him to school to learn all about ships, and maps, and charts,— all about navigation, which all sailors must know ifthey are ever to be captains. And that is what the young Christopher wished to be. It is a long story. I cannot tell it all here. I will only tell you that by and by the happy day came when the man Christopher Columbus sailed away from Palos, a seaport in Spain, sure that he could find a new and shorter

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