STRANGE EXPERIENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

STRANGE EXPERIENCES.

* f f A TREMENDOUS WALK. * : | FOR A £7000 WAGER, . ' | I Captain H. M. SKATO».-,U„ Ametij;.,. ft ! IS walking round the world' for a * £7000, is at present'in ! has been relating some of his exnS' 1 He left New York on April S S'"™"' ! has completed 33,700 miles 0 f W?\ anl I The route he has to take was arrant I him, and led across the : United BtfS : San Francisco. From there he JIJ f ; his passage to Honolulu, and then Brisbane, m Queensland. Captain S — i lias a very high opinion of the Aukl,™? 0 " 1 and their country. «If. the beatS-4 : m the world," he remarked. "Anv II who wants to work can earn 10s a da* 10 [i mora, and the people are always ready !' 1 help you on a bit." H. | ful as a lecturer there, and made enoul 1 money to carry him through his AriaS journey. . > 1 Tortured by Tibetans.' |@pt Leaving Townsville, in North Q ueen . I land, the captain went to Thursdav IgfolT i and via Java, the Straits Settlement? Japan, and Siam to Burma. Twice he at! v 1 tempted to penetrate into Tibet, or l 1 through Upper Burma and once' thronsh I Bhotan. He was captured, and after b - I ing bound hand and footjor a fortnight 1 and "tortured with red-hot irons," * a . j able to escape by eating through his bonds and knocking ddwn the man who stood at the door of his hut. On ; another occasion he and two Burmans were "treed"ijwl wild elephants, one of the natives being killed. When at Darjeeling in April,,l9lo he saw the Dalai Lama, who was returning to his capital after his expulsion by the Chinese. , •

Captain Seaton's • course next - led' Mm' through the Khvber Pass to Afghanis? into Persia, and through Bagdad, across Arabia to Aden. From there he pro ceeded by sea to Capetown, and thence set out to walk to Cairo! He went through Pretoria, Bulawayo, German East Atria to the Victoria Nyanza, on to Khartoum' and from Wadi Haifa bv boat to Cairo' Thence to Port Said 'and Alexandria whence he sailed for Brindisi-' Tramping through the peninsula, he gave very sols cessful lectures at Naples, Rome, Florence" and Venice, and front there went to Hamburg. From there ho crossed to Grimsby which he reached oil the 14th of last month, and went to Edinburgh, throtirii Hull, Whitby, Durham. Newcastle, 'Alnwick, and Dunbar. .• John o' Groats is 10 finish of this tremendous walk, and as ho has eight months to accomplish s this last stage the captain is certain of his £7000.