THE TOURING BICYCLIST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2239, 13 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE TOURING BICYCLIST.

Mr Stevens, fin American gentlfnnn, who is attempting to tr-ivel raunrl the worl 1 on ji bioydt 1 , his anivcl in India, ami Ins published an intcre-ting 11 wo lint of his ad ventures in Afghanistan. Finditi _T that the Russians would nob allow hint , i crirry out", his original plan of proceeding by Merv to the Oxus, ho applied to Sir WoNt Ridge w<iy for permission to jo. n the o imp of the Bmnl.iry C>"»mis>i>n, with tho view of findiu^ his w.iy tlnnco to In lii. Sir Wait, R-l^-.viy replied th.it the plan was impr.it 1.ticible. The eupon Mr Stevens went from Meshed southward to Birj in, where he succeeded in crossing the Afghm frontier and reaching Farrah. Thence he liopud to go to Qaetta by way of Cjndahar, but the Governor detained him and erentually sent him to Herat, and was then sent under escort to the Persian frontier. The attempt to tide across Afghanistan was thus bafH;d, Mr Stevens proposes to wheel himself to Lahore and to Calcutta, and then go by sea to Canton, to ride to Northern China on his bicycle, and tin illy tike ship tor Japan and America. — Court Circular.