1 As a variant to people circling the globe in masks and other freak pedestrians, we now June M. Saeys, a .distinguished. Dutch geographer, who has started with : his wife to travel round the world on foot. . The couple are to do it in six years, and the prize is a sum of £8000 wagered by another geographer named Bring, and now on deposit. Husband and wife left Amsterdam without- a penny in their pockets, and they are to pay their travelling expenses by selling their portraits on picture postcards. Having crossed' Holland, they readied liege, then Brussels, Moris, and Paris, where they stayed five days, then continued their journey through Marseilles, Nice, Genoa, Lucca, Pisa, Florence, Perugia* and finally Rome.. - ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)
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