volume 2 - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian History Workshop

136 Mr. N. White goes to America.
shore close to the sea. Meanwhile, White had insisted
on taking charge of his baggage, saying that he would
find his own way to the mail steamer. During our
journey from Karachi he said he wanted to spend some
weeks in India, and asked me to draw a bill on his father
and provide him with funds ; this I declined to do, as
Sir William White asked me not to leave him behind in
India. Captain Butterworth took such steps as were
necessary to prevent White missing the steamer, and
he appeared in a native boat on the stroke of five, and
he and his baggage were hauled up whilst the ship was
being cast loose from her moorings. There was a very
large number of passengers on board, and we all took
the greatest interest in the " Oriental," which was a
new ship, and was making her maiden voyage to
England. We arrived at Aden on April 4th in the
morning, and transferred the Indian mail to the
" Arcadia " which was carrying the Australian and
China mails. We had a very fine passage to Suez,
where we arrived on the 7th at 4 p.m., and here White
left me. Sir William White had wired to Mr. Hamilton
Lang, who at that time held an appointment in Cairo,
and asked him to meet the " Oriental " at Suez and
relieve me of the charge of his son.
By special arrangement with the P. & O. agent
Mr. Hamilton Lang came off to the " Oriental " and
took White ashore with him. I heard subsequently
that, in accordance with the wishes of Sir William
White and the plans which he had made as to his son's
disposal, at Sir William's request Mr. Hamilton Lang
travelled with him that same evening to Alexandria
via Banha, and escorted him to an American liner on
which the " Blue-Peter " was hoisted. He then handed
to White his tickets for the journey by sea and land
to Manitoba, and a sum of money, and a few hours
later the liner sailed, not, as White had expected, for
Constantinople, but America. We passed through the
Suez Canal in twenty hours of actual steaming and
reached Port Sa'id in the morning of April 8th. During
the coaling I went on shore and met by appointment