YOUTH’S ADVENTURE

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1929, Page 9

YOUTH’S ADVENTURE

WALK OF 18,000 MILES. When Augustus Floris, Argentine Boy scout, finally turned south after walking due north for 18,000 miles, spending two years in covering afoot the distance between Buenos Aires and New York, he did not walk, he fairly Hew, says the Christian Science Monitor. Augustus, his eyes alight, was one of the 14 passengers on a Colonial Air Transport plane that toox off from the Boston Airport on its regular daily run to New York. Ho will sail back to Buenos Aires on a steamer, lie said, having had enough of walking over mountains, through jungles, and acioss cities, in such large quantities, as least. Hatless, coatless, a red neckerchief above his khaki Scout uniform, and with a, 13-pound pack upon his back, young Floris, still in his early ’teens, nevertheless carried a brief case. In it is his most-prized possession—a bulky notebook, bulging with the names of notables who have signed it during the course of his journey. He points to gubernatorial signatures, to those of presidents of learned and famous societies, many embellished with official seals, and to the names of individuals internationally known. With four companions, he relates, he left Buenos Aires one summer’s day determined to reach New York afoot. Ar-’ gentina’s boundaries were reached, Bolivia was passed, and the famous Andes Mountains safely climbed. After passing from Ecuador to Colombia, he states, the last of his companions, for various reasons, was left behind, and he continned alone through Panama, Costa Rica, Niearague, Honduras, .Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States.

Adventures? Yes —captured by bandits in Nicaragua. But Augustus, as if to excuse them, said: “It was a revolution, you see.’'