The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-01

SuVtAy Dut w OfC1 y UOuf SulpllSt, IN
had not suffered from sea-sickness. II
Boston he had found work at Dutch
tailor shop, and remained four weeks
His employer, to whom he had told his
dream, had taken him to a fortune-teller
who, however, had refused to say any.
thing to him about his fate and his un
dertaking until he had promised to make
a coat for him. The exorbitant demand
he acceded to, but itdisgusted him with
Boston. The fortune teller, however,
had assured him tiat his dream would
be fulfilled. Being satisfied with the
work he had done for the prophecy, the
Boston fortune teller had given him a
specified route across the continent,
which he had rigidly followed and found
a very good one. Hehad walked through
New York State and part of Pennsyl-
yania. The New Workers he had found
short spoken but kind, the Pennsylvania
Dutch very talkative, but extremely
close-fsted, they always insisting upon
his doing great deal of work for poor
food. By far better he was pleased with
Ohio and the Western States, where he
lived in clover, the farmers, as general
thing, refusing to let him work. AT
Sioux City he Joined an overland party
which took him to Eastern Oregon, from
whencehe walked to Portland, falling in
on his route frequently with Indians,
whom he invariably found peaceable and
hospitable. His brief intercourse with
them taught him something which he
afterward found of great value to him.
They could not understand him, and SO
they had to talk by signs.
Tn ese signs of the Indians he used
afterward in his intercourse with other
wild or half. civilized nations, and found
invariably that they were readily under
stood. After going from Portland to
San Francisco, where he remained for a
year in order to lay up money for paying
his passage to Yokohama, he sailed for
Japan. At Yokohama he was strongly
urged to open shop, there being no
other European or American tailor
there, but he refused, and got into a
Russian vessel to Kamschkatka, where
he found very profitable work, he having
had considerable experience in making
fur garments. The Governor sent him
through Siberia with squad of soldiers
whose services had expired. In this in
hospitable country and climate he had
found the most hospitable and warm
hearted people on earth, except the
exiles. At Tobolsk he had remained until
the following spring, and then gone to
Moscow, where he had been introduced
to the Grand Duke Constantine, the
Emperor's brother, who offered him a
railroad pass, but he refused it and
walked in the path of Napoleon's retreat
ing army to wilma, where the Police
master of the city rudely accosted him
in Russian. He replied in German,
whereupon the official called a policeman
and had him sent to Jail as vagrant. It
did not take him long, however, to OBJ
tain his release. In Poland he remained
for many months, and still longer in
Germany. At length, on the 18th of
May, 1871, he entered the eastern gate of
his birthplace, Dorpt, where his return
created profound sensation, and where
the Burgomaster caused him to tell his
strange story at public meeting. The
report of his adventures reached the
King of Holland, who caused him to
come to the Hague, where he was well
entertained at the palace. Upon leaving
the palace he offered to work for what he
had eaten and drank there, which
offer created considerable merriment.
But the traveller, not to violate his
implied pledge, made vest for the little
son of the Crown Prince, and sent it to
the palace. His next walk was to
Amsterdam, where he found Captain,
who readily took him on board his vessel,
bound for the Canary Islands, and thence
to Rio Janeiro.
The second journey around the world
was more troublesome than the first, he
having to walk for months tn rough the
wilds of Brazil. Frequently for days he
did not find human habitation, but
he always obtained something to eat, his
experience having accustomed him to
go long without food. At Monteyideo
he was told that it would be impossible
for him to get across South America,
and SO he took passage back to Europe
for Marseilles. Travelling through the
whole of Italy and Greece, he reached
Suez, and from thence to Bombay. His
trip across to Madras and thence to Cal.
cutta was long and troublesome. From
the British capital of India he went to
Sava, and from thence to Melbourne. In
course of time he reached San Francisco
and is now here. To the suggestion that
he might get a steamship pass to Europe
he replied firmly that he would not &C
cept it if it were rendered him.
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