THE SUPER-TRAMP.
THIRTY YEARS' WA_K TOR BET.
BUDAPEST, August 31. The '.'Magyarsag" reports that a super-tramp has arrived in Pees, after covering 166,000 kilometres of the world on foot. Thirty-three years ago, at the age of 10, Mr. Imre Fibinger emigrated to Mexico, and concluded his studies as engineer. While employed at the Mexico Railway Building Trust he made a bet with Air. Astor, the president of the trust, by which he undertook to walk over the whole world in 30 years, and visit the capitals of 56. States, for the sum of 100,000 dollars in gold. Mr. Fibinger, who is en route for Poland, the Baltic States, Liverpool and San Francisco, pays his way by lecturing and will publish his memoirs at the conclusion of his walk, which he expects to end on December 31, 1939. Mr. Fibinger states that the two most unpleasant experiences of his world tramp were being knocked down bj' a motor cycle in Hyde Park and being attacked by wolves in Irkutsk, in Russia.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 239, 9 October 1934, Page 11
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