EXTRAORDINARY FEATS OF GLOBETROTTING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 87

EXTRAORDINARY FEATS OF GLOBETROTTING.

The "Man in the Iron Mask"" who has undertaken to walk round the earth for a. wager of £20,000 has probably set himBelf a more formidable task (says the Westminster Gazette) than any of his prlobetrotting predecessors; although he certainly has one great advantage over one of them, Marius Bernstarf Schroder. Some years asro Schroder started on a tramp round the world under these trying conditions. He had to wear handcuffs for 22 hours out of every 24, And to earn sufficient money to pay h:s expenses during the two hours daily of manual freedom. Anton Hanslian, an Aistrian.-'performed a remarkable feat, for a reward of 2000dol. by walking 7000 miles in 250 days, pushinsr ,a perambulator containing, hie wife and child, and earning the family living by lectures and the sale of post-cards. A still more enterprising Belgian actually set himself the task of walking round the world backwards : while a youthful American, called Veno Ghurchill, undertook to girdle the a lobe in a year and eight months, starting with five cents in his pocket %od returning with 2000doL