The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-29
Col. Nh. 4. DeMaIher.

onward. During the war he was wound
ed eight times. One ball went in at the
mouth and lodged beside the spinal col
umn of the neck. One passed through
the left shoulder and both lungs, and is
sued under the right arm. One entered
just below the navel, and came out be-
side the spinal column. The left leg
was fractured in two places. The right
leg was fractured. The eighth wound
was a compound fracture of the foot.
After these wounds had healed his body
was so doubled up as to bring the rim of
his hat, when on his head, almost to his
knees. It was to restore the necessary
equilibrium between the muscular and
nervous action" that he took to walking
and become q tourist. When here he
was one of the most erect and healthy
looking mel we ever saw. We publish
below two articles in regard to him, IL
from the Rome (Ga.) Commercial, and
the other from the MonticellOnian, an
Arkansas paper:
ADAY WITH DE MALHER."
from the Rome CGa.1 Commercially
"The world has just passed in piano.
rama before us! For tw~enty-fOur hours
we have been beneath the elOquence of
the greatest traveller of the age, Col.
NJ. L. De Malher. This remarkable
pedestrian has passed on foot through
every accessible land OH earth.
He has reveled in the gaieties of
Paris, and crushed purple blood from
the grapestrewn Pyrenees. He has
slipped sillery in Spain, and caught in
spiratiOn from the deep eyes of the
Castilian beauties. He has stood Wis a
vis' with the swarthy Moors, and
scorched beneath the focal sun of South
ern Africa. He has basked in the CLAM
or and romance of ,queenly Venice,
been famed by the spicy breezes Of the
| Mediterranean, and frost bitten amid
| the SHOWS Of Labrador. He has scaled
the Alps, and kissed the sky from
| Mont Blanc's summit. He has peeped
into Turkish harems, tramped through
the buried ruins of l~ascivious Pompeii,
been robbed in Mexico, mobbed in
Massachusetts,, and lost amid the de-
serts of Arabia.
He has fought with the Indians of
Texas on their plains, hobnobbed with
the Scotchman on his native heath
| looked ND to the giants Of Patagonia,
shivered with the Norwegian in his dog
cart, and lolled with the italian i'll his
elastic, INDECENT atmosphere. He has
visited on foot, every accessible country
on the globe, and has now over three
thousand sketches made by his own
hand of the tit-bits of scenery in this
beautiful world of ours.
IT, L. .Aool Rono 10 4oan with nrnT
one hundred thousand people every
year since he started on his tour, He
lodges one night in a palace and the
next night in a howell, one night with
refined people and the next night with
rough back woods men. But the love
of change, of adventure, of romance,
keeps him going, and he will probably
continue on his travels until old age
shall have dulled his activity and worn
down his strength.
He never eats dinner, and finds sugar
the most nutritious, its bulk considered.
of all other food, and when he starts
across a desert Or uninhabited waste, he
takes package of brown sugar with
him. He was once. in Mexico, eighty
four hours without food or drink save
tobacco, and when he reached a ha-
cienda where he could get succor fell
into a fit of brain fever, from which he
recovered after six weeks illness. This
was in the volcanic region OF Mexico
He has been robbed eve times; but
never of any large amount.
In physique Col. De Malher is tai
6 feet 2 inches,) athletic and symetri,
cal. In manner he is most polite anC
agreeable-modest without extreme
difffdence-afable without ostentatior
Intelligent without pedantry.
Colonel De Malher is a native o.
Loudon County Va, and is now abou'
g or 80 years of age; p%aternally he ii
the De Malhers, a branch of thu
Colignys, who settled in Virginia abou
two hundred years ago, and is allied BY
ties of consanguinity with some of thu
preudest titles in France, and Grea
Britain. Materially he is by birth O
one of the Oldest Virginia families.
[From the tArkansas) Montieellonian.l
Col. NJ. L. De Malher, the creates
pedestrian tourist of the age, has. spen
j several days with us. He has beef
travelling on foot for eight years. Is
Virginian by birth, was educated a
Heidelburg Germany, was Confederat
| Colonel, and, having been effected wit
paralysis, the result of wounds receiyet
in the war, went to Europe after tn
war for treatment, and, after havin:
! failed to get relief, his physicians ad
. vised him to walk, with a hope of res
tOring the necessary equilibrium be
tween the muscular and nervous action
: The walking has had the desired efec
: and he is now in fine health.
His mode of travel and manner o
I dress, gives him an access to certain
, classes and conditions of the countr
Z that has heretofore escaped the atten
: ton of historians.
He is a. gentleman thoroughly eduea
! ted-his mind being stored with an III
exhaustible fund of classic lore, an
! modern Continental, English an,
= American Literature. He is abont
years of age, a little over six feet higl
of fine physique dark-brown hal
! Dundeary whiskers, and mustache
= shade lighter, blue eyes and of q quiel
Q intelligent expression.
Chief among the incidents OF his Lit
4 Of travel is the circumstance OF havir
already accomplished a pedestrian TOT
z Of France, England, Scotland, Span
e Portugal, Italy, Turkey in Europ,
Austria, the German Empire, Denmarl
Y Holland, Belgium, Central Anleric,
b Mexico, and every State and Territor
in the union. Up TO his arrival here, Q
Tuesday, he had already completed 20
! 558 miles on foot. The Col. is fluent
= six or seven languages is an apt han
is with the artists crayon and sketcht
u notable heads and scenes he harper
up within his travels. He is of cours
preparing material for a book of tTave
! which viii probably be the most con
h Dlete ever published.
II His route from here is to the Gul