IN THE EAST INDIES. 17 
top was splendid; you could look right out to sea. 
At twelve o’clock we took the train for Dublin. It 
was called an express train, but it went very slowly. 
Tell Nora that we went through Cork and that I 
thought cf her. It is a delightful ride from Queens- 
town to Cork. The railroad runs parallel to the Dee 
river and you never saw so many shore birds and 
ducks (except perhaps at Virginia Beach) in your 
life. The country is delightful—everything as green 
as it can be. The houses are mostly, in fact, almost en- 
tirely one-storied, made out of stone white-washed 
and with thatched roofs. The fields are all enclosed 
with hedges and they are thus for miles and miles. 
There is an abundance of sheep, cows, pigs, donkeys, 
ete., in the various fields. There is no end of wild 
flowers. We passed one field which I especially 
noticed, a mass of yellow primroses, then another 
filled with red poppies, really a delightful sight. 
When we arrived at Mallow we bought two lunch 
baskets and ate our lunch in the train; it consisted 
of ham and chicken, bread and butter and a bottle 
of ale. About four o’clock in the afternoon several 
of the passengers took afternoon tea put up in baskets 
the same way as was our lunch. At 6.20 we arrived 
in Dublin and drove with our trunks straight to the 
Hotel Shelbourne, where we found your cablegram 
and a telegram from Sister and Milne Barbour wait- 
ing for us. We were delighted to hear from you. 
The Barbours want us to come at once and visit 
them at Dunmurray, but we had already accepted 
an invitation, which we received on the Ivernia by 
wireless, to stay with Maleolm Gordon at Hilden 
House, Lisburn. We had a very good dinner at the 
