ROUND THE WORLD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1083, 16 December 1911, Page 4

ROUND THE WORLD.

WALKING AND WORKING

Tanned by the sun and the breezes of land and sea, travel stained and dusty, but radiating vigorous health and joie de vivre, two young Canadian lads walked into this office last evening, having walked and worked their way irom Tunis (Algeria). The pair, Geo. Eldridge, aged 17, and M. J. Canole, aged 19 are engaged in walking round the world for a wager of the conditions being that they work for their bread, butter and bed throughout the journey, and that, leaving their starting point penniless, they return penniless. Leaving Tunis (Algeria) on October Ist, 1910, the young adventurers traversed Sicily, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium and the British Isles. Thence they worked their passage across the Atlantic, and worked down through America to ’Frisco, where they again shipped before the mast to Honolulu, and then on to New Zealand, arriving in Auckland on November 22nd last. They have since made their way South, following the Main Trunk line, and after a few days spent at Palmerston, will continue South. “Got a long way to go? I should smile,” said the younger of the pair. “ From this little island we go to Australia, then to Java, Singapore, Ceylon, Arabia, India, Egypt, Tripoli (where I guess we’ll sure get decorated with dago bullets), and back to our starting point, Tunis.” “Worth it? wa'al I guess the experience is worth more than the wager ” “ but it all this old earth’s inhabitants were as sociable as those we’ve struck since making ‘God’s own,’ I reckon the world walk business would be as popular as riding on the joy wheel.” And with “ so long ” and a smile the youngsters went their way. —• Mauawatu Times.