Nevada County picayune., 1890-02-26
THE RACE.
Miss Bly's Route and that of Hel
 Rival, Miss Bisland.

New York on November 14 Arriv- ing at Liverpool, she proceeded by rail to London, and then across the English Channel from Dover to Calais, going from there to Amiens, where she visited Jules Verne. Af- ter spending a few hours with the author of Around the World in Eighty Days,' she went back to Calais and resumed the journey in which was to demonstrate that the earth could be girdled in a shorter time than the imagination of the dis ] tinguished Frenchman had allowed. At Calais she took the famous Indian mail train through France and Italy to Brindisi. Then she sailed across the Mediterranean Sea to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal From there she sailed through the canal and down the Red Sea to Alden, an the Arabian coast, and thence through the Gulf of Alden across the i Indian Ocean to Colombo, Ceylon. From Colombo she went across the Sea of Bengal to Singapore, on the Malay Peninsula, and from there through the China Sea to Hong Kong, on the Chinese coast; from Hong Kong through the Formosa i Channel to Yokohama, on the east eru side of Japan, thence directly across the Pacific to San Francisco, arriving at the Golden Gate on Tues day morning. Thence she pro- ceeded by the fasting trains to New York, reaching the end of her jour ney at 4:15 p. m. Saturday, and completing her tour Tn seventy-two days, six hours and eleven minutes.
 Nellie By made this remarkable tour with no other baggage than a small hand satchel. She left New York with but one gown and that on her back. In the satchel were nec- essary changes of clothing and f500 Bank of England notes, besides her railroad and steamer fare for the en- tire trip.
 Seven hours after Miss Bly had departed eastward on her journey, Miss Elizabeth Bisland, of the Cos mopolitan Magaznie, took fast train westward for San Francisco, in an effort to beat Miss Bly. From San Francisco she took the same route, but in reverse order, as that followed by her competitor, going to Yok ohama, Hong Kong, Singapore, Colambo, Alden, Port Said, and Brindisi. From Brindis she took the Indian mail train to Calais and crossed to Dover. Then she went to London by train and crossed England to Holy Head, took the ferry across the Irish Sea to Dublin, caught the Bothna at Queenstown, and sailed for New York.
 The progress of the fair racers was watched with great interest. On ar irving at Brindisi Miss Bisland learned to her dismay that the fast German steamer Ems, which she ex- pected to meet at Southampton for home, had been taken off. Her New York manager then arranged to have her take t'ie French steamer Cham pagnc at iIarve, but it appeared that she was not acquainted with that part of the programme, and after waiting for her short time the Champagne sailed without her. The only thing left her to do was to take the first English steamer to New York. This was the slow-going Both nia, of the Cunard line.
 Miss Ely is 30 years of age and has been in the service of the New York World for year or more.
 Miss Bisland is P, and has done much admirable literary work for the Cosmopolitan. She is of an old New Orleans family and went to New York fonr years ago.
 This trip recalls the fact that the first woman who ever circumnaviga- ted the glode was a member of Bou- gainville's famous expedition around the world in l766-G9. which occupied just two years and four months Un- der the name of Bare, and in the disguise of man, this woman had taken passage upon the store ship, l. Etoile, as servant to Phlibert de ! Commercon, the botanist. She bore the hardships and privations of the trip cheerfully and uncomplaininglv, proving herself an intelligent assist ant to all her masters scientific stud 1 jess and her sex was never discover ed until the vessel reached Tahiti.