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»' GLOBE-TROTTING EXTRA
tfii ORDINARY.
,"#ÍLBUTO ROUND THE WORLD.
W'ni^BVOW WITH MONSIEUR
&&F..f* HENRI GILBERT.
"JfSÔfpîte the multiplication of modern
¿».548 °l locomotion, ¿nd the undoubted
J^OiriationB poesessed bj the ubiquitous
wjôyç^ long journeys on foot have not yet
^ne^tírely out of fashion. Oa Saturday
wet Representative of the WESTEEN MAID
ifteft Wte pleasure of meeting a gentle
jjfân ^hfr-has undertaken to put np a walk
>ffi|fiS|prd, and «ho maybe described as a
|Hobe^trotter extraordinary. M. Henri
.wiwèrîi rae gentleman in question, is
« Ijj^ch journalist, whose love of adven
«uW^od desire to acquaint himself with
Jthemaliners and customs of the different
fww>$» .and national characteristics of the
«coplee of the outer world,haveindñced bim :
Jteje^^ the arduous task of perambulating
KVjaâer any circuroscances suca a tasir
I prouhToe serious enough, but under
j fjh¿ Ämarkable conditions which tins re-'.
« njarfable traveller has imposed upon him
; B^C^the undertaking is so formidable that
? nöne* but the hardiest and bravest of men
would be likely to attempt it. M.
£ mißlß acoompiniea hy : ¡ no coinf
:. panioa, and '- although it " cannot^ be'
i said that he travels literally /without
^cripy and without purée he, at any rate,
Jisst out upon hie adventurous journey absp
Mutely penniless, determined to support
flümself daring his wanderings by writing
W. Otherwise. Before setting out he
^coeeded in persuading two Paris journals,
Iklé La Pip&hi and the Radical Algerien, to
*8àBpt letters from his pen. This was a
|îteg(nning, and what he has earned in this
hájanneriias been supplemented by the sale
¿íof photographs of places of interest and by
!leeds of lectures delivered by. bim j
French territory as his roving'
Lon has brought him to from
o time. M, Gilbert speaks
only, his knowledge of the
tongue being so limited
ts with dimcultv he can make his
wants known in that language,
standing this undoubted disability,
9 far got along famously. One is
rised to learn that his travels have
litful of adventure by flood and
that, like St. Paul, he has been in
t, both by land and sea. M. Gil
rsonalrty is a striking one. He is
tdrty-two years of age, of small
and strikes one as. being on-
ly strong and wiry, while his small
g brown eyes impress one with the
t in his travels the salient features
er-ohanging surroundings, whether
landscape or the national
tides of the people whose acquaint
makeá, are not allowed to escape
¡s dressed, when our representative
, in a soit of khakee while his left
prm was bedeoked with the tricolour, a
S silent but effective proclamation of his
; Rationality. HÍB .bag and baggage are
j iecepsarily limited,' A single change of
' Rothes, a portfolio containing a collection
ó| photographs, a pile of manuscript,
; yi, which ne has placed on record an account
\ pf , bis journey, and a small camera com
I pletéd hie outfit Our representative was
\ able, to glean from the bronzed traveller
; that he left Paris on the 19th February,
; aSöoV&nd that ho does not expect to again
the gay city until 1900, by which time
»| w2l haye completed a circuit of the
world, and have travelled a distance of
*pwftrds of '60,000 English milpa. On
feavuig the French, capital M. Gilbert
southwards across the
\ Eyjennes, and thro'ugh the neighbour
; jjy* kingdom oí Spain. From Spain
he crossed over to Algiers and ¿nude
; his way on foot through Algeria and Tunis
\ &o Gabes on the north of Tunis, whence he
I fcépk steamer for Malta. After exploring
> ¡¡his interesting island he proceeded to
j ajapnflria. He nest traversed Egyptfrom
I áotth tô south and from east to west, visit
l îhg^ jbiost of the historic places of interest,
t Deavmgthe land of the Pharoahs he crossed
I , coes at Elkañtara " thence touring
I She -Holy Land, doing Jerusalem, Jaffa,
I Bekrönt and proceeding from Damascus to
I gagdad, From tho city of the Caliphs he
j ap^tieara to have made his way back to the
j Bpast/ánd to have taken' steamer for. Bom
I bajy* j?rom Bombay hé walked across the
! mulan peninsula, visitingV-Poona, Wadi,
i Hyáerabad\.SeCunderábadand^on<¿cher^
íróhi Ifoadjcherrf ho made his way to
PÉaotó|¿ and thence along the east coast,
IgförPof «Tellasore, MiUnapur, Chanderna
[Sfi tod Cabuttà, Subsequently he
p^yeîted' through the .island of Ceylon,
Kh¿ ïwaltê settWenta and Java as fai
Ijftnfi . ""às &^abaya and thence
Sbaos' %p Singapore; whence he took
vrajftS îft Fremantle, On Monday M. Gil
jbS^^ntmûèa bis perigrinatxons by
?päong te Albany. From Albany he pro
Hp^ ^ wall: to' Eucla, and thence to
Káfriktóifr Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbaue.
pttlb^JfeUstrali^ he will üke steamer tç
Saigon, in Cochin China, pwceedingjkence
to Annam, Tonkin, China, Corea and Japan.
After doing the country of the Mikado
and making the acquaintance of the
Children of the Land of the Eieing
Sun, he goes to Vladivoßtock, pro-
ceeding thence along the eastern coast of
Siberia to Behring's Strait and Alaska, in
the sub-arctic regions. Prom Alaska he pro-
poses to walk down the western side of the
two Americas to Valparaiso and Santiago,
and thence to Buenos Ayres. From the
capital of Brazil he will walk through Gui-
ana, Mexico and the southern States of Ame
! rica to New York and thence to Canada. He
I will take steamer at Labrador for Glasgow,
and anticipates spending a few months in
the United Kingdom, after which he will
return to Paris via Dover and Calais. He
, has already completed 20,000 miles, or
aheut one-third of his journey. M. Gilbert
is well up to time, and being in the pink
of condition entertains no misgivings
about completing the programme ne bas
set himself within the time originally
planned.
From the notes of his travels M. Gilbert
intends publishing a book in three different
languages, by which means he confidently
anticipates securing a fitting financial
recompense for his arduous wanderings in
the out of the way places of the earth. He
states that he has, with few exceptions,
¡ been treated with extreme kindness}
[ especially by the subjects of England's
I Queen, who, he confesses, are to be found
making themselves perfectly at home in
every corner of the globe ne has yet
I visited. . ,
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