16 A COLLECTING TRIP 
Elephanta are carved temples in a great cliff on an 
island in the harbor. These and the Parsee towers 
of silence are about the only really interesting points. 
I hear, however, that the fish market also has some 
attractive features. So I shall find the stay profit- 
able, I am sure. 
Well, it is getting bed time now; all is going 
finely, so good night; love to all from 
Tom. 
Ireland, October 11, 1906. 
Dear Pa: 
We arrived in Queenstown yesterday morning 
at three o’clock. The Ivernia did not make an espe- 
cially good trip, so instead of getting to Queens- 
town Tuesday afternoon we did not get there until 
three the next morning. However we did not mind 
that. We were the first persons to have our luggage 
gone through by the custom house officials and we 
got through all right; in fact, three of the trunks 
were not opened at all. We had a very good room 
at the Queen’s hotel and turned in about four o’- 
clock. We had breakfast at ten and then went out 
and took a jaunting car and saw the town. We pur- 
ehased several postal cards for the kids. The driver 
was very funny and was cracking jokes all the time. 
He took us to St. Patrick’s cathedral and we got out 
and went all over that and then he showed us the 
 “risidential’’ part of the town, consisting of thirty 
or forty houses. Then we drove out a little way 
into the country and it was very pretty. The day 
was glorious, not a cloud in the sky and as Queens- 
town is built on a terraced plan, the view from the 
