The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-22
FROM THE OLD WORLD.
A BOLD HORSEMAN-A PREHISTORIC
DISCOvERY-SEXES IN EUROPE.
A Japanese Returns on Horseback
from Berlin, Germany, to His Native
Country, Travelling Only short
Distance by Steamer-A Bold Feat.

In the fall of last year. 1892, Mai.
Yosuhma Fukushima, military attache
Of the Japanese legation at Berlin, being
about to return from the German capt.
tai named to Japan, resolved to do so on
horseback. Although his strength,
energy and tenacity and his great skill
as horseman were known to his ac-
quaintances, yet they urgently dlssuaded
him from commencing the journey in the
fall, so near the winter, and called his
attention to the snow storms and heavy
frosts of Russia and of wide Siberia.
Yet, the courageous horseman was not
disturbed or disheartened and one day
he left Berlin, accompanied a certain dis
lance by friendly compatriots living at
the German capital and by some German
military officers. No one really believed
that he could succeed, yet he safely ar
rived at Toxic, the capital of his native
country, after a journey on horseback
of nearly one year. lacking only a couple
of months. Mindful of his object
Fukushima, when he started, selected
a strong, tough horse and confined him
self, as to his outfit and to arms, to
things indispensably necessary. He took
along provisions for several days con-
sisting of crackers, tea and canned meat,
and several rations of cat cake for his
morse. He was supplied with proper
covers, enabling him to spend the nights
in the open air as he had frequently to
do during the spring. The beginning of
the ride, by the way of Koenigsberg,
Germany, to st. Petersburg, Russia, was
easy, the horseman being we'll received
in both cities. From the two Russian
capitals, st. Petersburg and Moscow, in
each Of which he stopped for several
days, he rode across Russia toward
Orenburg on the Ural river, which separ-'
ates Europe from Asia He, thereupon.
entered Siberia by the way Of Orsk. AL
ready in Russia his first horse had given
out and he had to purchase a new one.
He was afterward repeatedly compelled,
in Asia, to buy horses of Cossacks,
Kirghis and Mongolians. Because the
Russian and Chinese authorities kindly
treated. and the people generally, as far
as known. friendly received him, he, by
his astonishing ride safely reached Vladi
VostOk. the Russian seaport of the far
East on the Sea of Japan. Thence he.
by steamer, fastened to Japan. The
bold and courageous hOrseman rode in
Asia across vast steppes. extensive
mountainous regions, for instance, across
a portion of the Altai mountains, and
along the border Of the desert of Cobb.
Frequently natural events as a snow
fall, storms, excessive frosts and during
the spring long continued rains COM
PEELED him to stop He occasionally had
to stop over night in barren. uninhabited
regions. Once in a while also difficulties
may have been caused him by indie
pendent and nomadic hordeS. Neverthe-
less good luck attended the brave man
to the end of his journey, during which
many another man might have lost his
life. The achievement of the man is
without a parallel. He rode across the
eastern half of Europe and across the
whole continent of Asia in the direction
from west to east. He, after his arrival
in Japan, was promoted by the govern
ment there to the rank of lieutenant
colonel. a grand reception was given
him at Toxic. during which the whole
population of that city, both natives and
foreigners, warmly welcomed the plain
and modest man whose complexion had
become quite dark by the heat of the
sun during his ride.
FuSushima, during his journey. was
strictly sober. totally abstaining from
the use of spirituous beverages. Yet, he
was a frequent and hearty eater during
his ride. a fact the more to be won
dered at. because even considered as
Japanese, he is a man Of a small stat
ure Being about thirty-five years of
age and enjoying the full vigor of man
hood, he accomplished his ride without
any detriment whatever to his health.
He intends to publish a book on his
journey.
4 Prehistoric Discovery.
BY the prehistoric age the time is
meant before that described in. written
history The prehistoric man is the man
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great value is attached in all civilized
countries to finds or discoveries relating
to the animal and vegetable life during
the prehistoric age or consisting of relics
of human activity exhibited during that
age. Things found, belonging to the
prehistoric age, are carefully preserved
in special collections. The finds or dis
coveries made of relics or remains Of
the prehistoric man show that he was
possessed of the same natural capacity
of which man is possessed nowadays.
In other words. he did not differ by his
nature, but only by his want of knowl-
edge and experience from the historic
man.
An interesting prehistoric discovery
was made by DIR. J. Nueesch of Schaff-
hansen. Switzerland in 1891. He. at the
foot of a wall of rocks. near that city,
found remnants of a settlement. which,
according to the objects found there and
the calculation based thereon. was es-
tabIished over four thousand years be-
fore the Christian era That prehistoric
settlement is called the Reindeer sta
ton" because according to the pic
lures to be seen on the prehistoric OBJ
iects dug out of the ground there, the
reindeer was the principal domestic ami
NAL of the inhabitants of the prehistoric
settlement.
DR.. Nueesch having commenced his
excavations at the place stated in 1891,
is not through with them yet. He has
dug out of the ground weapons tools,
ornaments and household utensils, con-
sisting of flint, horn, and bone. None
of them consist of metal, a fact which
shows the great age of the settlement,
the use of the metals not having been
known yet to it's inhabitants. The OBJ
iects stated had been prepared with the
greatest skill A large number of them,
consisting of horn and bone, indicate
good deal of taste on the part of the
prehistoric men, who made them. OF
particular interest are beautiful designs
incised upon pieces of antlers of rein
deer, upon bone and horn utensils, and
upon stone.
To the scientists the most important
of the finds is doubtless a table of lime
stone, containing an incised design of
reindeer and it's young and of man.
moth. From this picture the inference
is to be drawn that the settlement was
established at so early an age, when
the mammoth existed yet.
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