Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-27
ROUND THE GLOBE.
NELLIE BLY, TRLLS TIE STORY OF HBR
TRIP.
The Interesting Incidents Of the Memorable
EYcursiOn-A Flight Of Ssysniy-fwo
Dsys-SOns Of The Things
She Saw.

the inteprid young tourist sent out by the
New York World TO encircle the globe for
record, arrived in New York last Sstur.
day afternoon, making the entire circuit in
70 days, hours and II minutes.
Concerning this remarkable trip Miss
BLY, tells the folio wing interesting story:
IN. Jules Verne said it could not be
done. have done it. 1t WAS only sixty-
eight days from the time left American
soil until touched il again.
have alresdy told the story Of my trip
across the Atlantic. We had a rough trip.
"At 2:3O Friday morning, November 81,
we anchored of S u.hsmpton, and by my
own usual good luck caught q special
mail train from London. stepped into
an English coach. In the morning they
told me it was daylight or l would not
have known it. have recollection of
him lights, a gray, dirty shadow over
hanging the city asd some foe buildings
and people beginning to hurry when
reached Loudon. We went to the Victoria
Street Station. The trip to Amiens was
slow aud tiresome. but / was fully repaid
for the journey by meeting
NJ. JULES VERNE AND HIS WIFE,
who were waiting for. me at the station.
As Nine. Verne spoke no English and /
spike no French, cur conversation wac
limited to smiles and cordial pressures Of
the hand, which considered extremely
kind and friendly. NJ. Verne wanted to
know all about the trip. III you make it
in seventy-nine days / will applaud with
both hands, he cried, and wished me
Good luck" After describing her visit
to Jules We ne Miss BLY, goes on to tell Of
her trip across Earope.
Nothing remarkable occurred until she
reached Brindi.i There she nearly misssd
her steamer. Indeed, Ms. BLY, had to
run for il. started in mad race which
brought me by sudden curve, breath.
less at the foot Of the plank. uttered a
prayer Of thanks when | saw the Victoria
still there. / went aboard and started the
next day.
BRINDIsI TO PORTLAND
Everybody who sat on deck was wrapped
mp, as were the two or three couples who
walked leisurely around, but 10 me, who
had slipp from seven days Of freezing on
the Atlantic and two days of chilling in
France and Italy, it seemed ss balmy as
the days we dream about but never real
ize.
Port Said was cur first SOP, November
81. II is at the entrance TO the Susz Canal,
and while the boat wes coaliDg all the
passengers went on shore. The Sutz Ca
nal looks like nothing else than q nam
moth ditch. the sand being dug out
and thrown to either side. II took Us
twenty-four hours to psss through the ca
nal, the boat being allowed to travel at
the rate of only ak miles an hour, bscause
rapid rate of speed washes down the high
banks
Our next port was Alden, and a mOst
beautiful place il is. At distance ii
looks like an huge stone mountain, and
when we got there il was not much else
Before we anchored the famous swimmers
and divers were about the beat The black
people are PERFECTLY bare except for email
scarfs about the waist, aud their ability o
swim and dive is something msrvelous
The water here is filed with shsrkP, bat
the people are never harmed by them.
They cay (I don't know how true il icy
dast (shark) will not eat colored man, -
that .he natives are safe. We had 10 wait
five days here.
ADEN TO HONG KONG.
The Oriental, the boat in which tray-
eled from this point to China, was very
commodious, and the officers most sgreea-
BILE During the voyage from Singapore
10 Kong Kong we had the startling mon
coon aeainet M, but the Oriental, which !
WAS making its first trip 10 China and was
trying to make record, fought bravely
and reached Hong Kong two days ahead
of my itinerary, December %. Christ
mas day spent in Canton, China, eating
my lunch in the temple Of the dead, where
there are hundreds of bodies, some Of
which have been lying in caskets for sey-
enty five years.
On December % | started for Yoko-
hama on the Occidental and Oriental
steamship Oceanic. We had q stormy trip
across TO Yokohama, bad winds and rough
ssas, and reached that interesting Japanese
town on the morning Of January 3. There
was delay here, ard l went to see the
sights.
ACROSS THE PACIFIC AND HOME.
I started from Yokohama January Z.
The band on the Omaha played for ns
Home Sweet Home" Hail Columbia
and "rhe Girl Left Behind Me-" TIE
trip scross the Psciic was very tempest
uous. | landed in San Frsncisco and took
the Worlds special train at q. m JAM
uary 81, and ives whirled scross the con-
tipent. NELLIE BLY,.
Arriving in New York, Saturday, she
was driven TO the World Office, where Mics
BLY, received tire congratulations Of the
editorial ard repOrtoriel stats. A colls-
tio, al the Astor House followed. Miss
BLY, has made the circCmtenestrial jour
ney ia much shorter time than it has ever
been made before, and hence Ter voyage
has certain scientific and mercantile in
terest.