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SCHILLING IS HEARD FROMThe Japan Gazette contain* the following article about Geo. ML. Schilling?, the round-the-world, pedestrian who made a call at Honolulu three yearsa*°:George M. Schilling, the one-armed pedestrian, who Is, wanting round the ^ world tor a wager that during the tour he will “neither beg, borrow, nor spend.' and will return to New York,X haanWidelshlt;fivfrom whence he set out in a paper suit, with $5,000 (gold), arrived in Hongkong on the Hth inst, by the S. S. Gtenfal-loch, and at once registered himself at the United States Consulate, He called at this office on the I7tb inst., and handed us a pamphlet which he said ^ he was selling to obtain the means to i carry him onward, and enable him to i win the wager he had mad§ before he ^ set out on his wide-world walk. He wl produced several books (on the pages of, C£ which were the Consulate and Munici-1 ^ pal seals of the various towns through j ( which he had travelled), as document- ituary evidence of bis bona fldes. He said be left New York, accompanied by his dog, King n, an 3rd August, 1397, went across the American Continent and shipped at Vancouver tor Australia on 3rd June, 1898. Arriving at Sydney on 26th August, 1898, he travelled through Southern Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the other colonies, accomplishing the unprecedented feat of having walking10,000miles to 2 years. Leaving Freemantle on 24th August, 1900, he shipped for Ceylon. From Colombo he walked to Kandy and returned by train. A few days afterwards fee took, a steamer for Calcutta, and walked jj.©*oss In* di* to Bombay. Returning by i train he left India by boat for Rangoon on 8th January last, and set out for Mandalay, reaching thgre on 7th February/ ' It was feis intentfSa to proceed to Bharno, and, crossing the Chinese frontier, walk through the Yunnan province, hut on arriving at the Upper Burma Boundary he was advised that It was useless to proceed any further to consequence of the disturbed state of the country. The local authorities at Bhamo refused to allow him to enter the Interior, and Schilling, finding Ms attempts to proceed through China by that route altogether frustrated, determined to return to Rangoon and ship for the Straits. After remaining in Singapore a few days he took the Gienfalloch for Hongkong with the view of proceeding to Japan and thus complete his tour oftAtbebeevmqvpaV€WlasItdswitoofiIVCOdlt;tltlot111Plt;tloiaioiana:t!Itthe Eastern portion of this Hemisphere, i y. ... “Altogether, Schilling says, he has walked 22,000 mlleS, and Judging from the portraits he has shown us, his physical condition has been very Httle affected by his pedestrian feat. He tells us that he was laid up with dysentery in Rangoon, and had the misfortune to lose his faithful dog. King 33.. at Bombay, but beyond that he is none the worseShanghai he will do so after Japan has been visited, and then proceeding tb Europe complete his task by a tour through the British Isles. Schilling is hopeful that some local gentlemen w’ll take an interest in his feat, and ,as-sist him in getting a hall wherein he can lecture on his torn*, and obtain the means to carry him further on his Journey.-A - • — •h1h
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Hawaiian Gazette
Honolulu, Hawaii, US
Tue, Apr 23, 1901
Page 7
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Lyell H.
IA, USA 01 May 2020
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