A WELL-KNOWN LECTURER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9627, 20 October 1909, Page 7

A WELL-KNOWN LECTURER.

Mr Foster Fraser, the well-known explorer, author and lecturer, will Rive lectures in the Mastcrtou Town Hall on October 27cli and 28th, tuk ing for his subjects "Aetoss Siberia and a Dash Through Manchuria," and " America Up-to-fJat:," respectively. Mr Foster Fraser was the lirst 'white rr.ni),' remarks a con • j temporary, to enter the Chinese j E npire from the unfrequented land, lit' Upper Burn a, and he possesses j the earliest, passport ever isseed by the Government of that country permitting a European to travel through (he Flowery Land Ik has explored as a young adventurer the ruins of ( artlv'ge, and penetrated into the recesses or Tunis. fie has discovered low little he knew—being n son of | the manse—-of Biblical topography,i by wandering with wowier eyes and ■ iteji t.''C)U£'hUi among the "Pagans in th.>;e Uniy Fjuhit,;." With fine comi ■anion ho has wheeled round the i hnut, covering V.),2.)l miles in 774 .cayman: carrying hi.--, life in his la-di-. Mr Foster Fruscr can remember in other journeys, niirnts of { bloodshed between Armenians and Taiters in the streets of Baku; starving on the sand-swept Gobi desert in a corner of Mongolia; in the blood soaked hills of Macedc-ria, pushing in the chill daw.j tovvavds" j the mountains of Albania; out all . ight in the snows'of Central Persia, lighting cold and death; watching the struggling of the gold fiends making for the Klondyke; panting with small-pox in an Indian village during the hot months; thinned to muscle and hone, pressing through the dark jungle of Burma, in short, Mr Foster Fraser has been almost everywhere and met almost everybody of real significance in the modern world.