ROUND THE WORLD ON FOOT.
Mr, Schilling, an American, who is travelling round the world on foot, arrived at Bloemfontein on July 1.
He left New York on August 3, 1897. clad in a suit of newspapers, hatless, bootless, and penniless. lie has undertaken for a wager of £5000 to complete the journey within five, years, neither to beg, borrow, nor ideal, and to have accumulated £1000. Since leaving New York he has travelled a distance of 29,700 miles, and walked through the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, India, Burmah, China Siam, Japan, Liberia, the Philippines, and part of South Africa. He has still to travel to Cairo, via Beira, Mombassa, and the Soudan, across Europe, including Austria, Russia, Germaav, Holland, Italy, France, aud England, which means another 8000 miles, to complete which he had just thirteen months. In the course of his wanderings Mr. Schilling has witnessed four wars— Spanish-American, the Philippine, the Boxer, and the Boer— held up by Mexicans, robbed and almost strangled. by Thugs, mobbed by Boxers, and fired upon several times. He earns his living by lecturing at towns he passes through.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12070, 13 September 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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