SEVEN YEARS' TRAMP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

SEVEN YEARS' TRAMP.

TWO GERMANS ON TOUR. THIRTY COUNTRIES VISITED. MEMENTOES OF MANY LANDS. I Two German former Boy Scouts, IT. Garbc and F. Series, arrived in Johannesburg 011 February 9 from Lourenco Marques in tho course of a world tour, mosth on foot, which lias occupied the best part of seven years. They are totally unlike the majority of world walkers who call in at Johannesburg periodically, says tho Johannesburg Star, and they are remarkable in that they have expressed 110 intention of walking from tho Capo to Cairo. The tour had an unusual beginning. Tho lads left their homes at Frankfurt-am-Main on a holiday in Italy. This was seven years ago. They did not go back, but went on and on, until now, at the end of seven years, they have visited 30

countries and obtained knowledge of tho lives and languages of practically all nations. Their world tour began with a walk through Europe, in tho course of which the boys visited all the odd spots imaginable, collecting photographs and signatures from notablo people. Among others visited was the exKaiser, at Doom. They found Wilhelm 11. living in Imperial style, still using his Imperial appellations. He was a tired man working in a garden when the travellers found him, but he courteously granted them an audience, gave them an autographed photograph, and left them with an impression of great dignity. President von Kindenhurg's signature also figures in one of threo bound volumes (lurried by tho young men. The travellers journeyed on through Asia Minor and then went to Scuth America, where they spent months among tho various States, living tho lifo of the people. Their books contain pieces of tho skins of tho deadly yet brilliantly coloured coral snake, rattlers, and other dangerous reptiles found in South America, and there aro numerous photographs of native scenes and scenic views beloved of all travellers. In Nicaragua the tourists came upon one General Sandino, an insurgent leader whoso custom it was to carry two revolvers in his belt and one under his arm. He was a suspicious fellow, bub onco ho realised that the travellers wero not