No One Has Been Round the World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 38, 18 September 1902, Page 29

No One Has Been Round the World.

No one has yet r ally made a journey round the world. The course usually followed is approximately about 20,000 miles in length. The shortest time for this distance is that made by George Griffith, an Englishman, who accomplished the distance in 61£ days, as an ordinary passenger via Suez and Hong Kong. The only way to make a real trip round the world would be at the equator, where the circumference ia 2i.855 mile-, nearly 50C0 miles longer than tue usual route. Rome years ago an Italian offered to accomplish this ta«k in three yeara provided the necessary funds were found, but nothing came of it. It is extremely doubtful whether such a ft at is within the realms of possibility, as the man rash enough to undertake it would have to spend months in the pestilential basin of the Amazon, hew his way for hundreds of miles through the terrible Congo (forest and cross the great twin islands of Sumatra and Borneo, in a latitude where fever of the deadliest desoription is everywhere p;ev.vleut.