The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-05
In SEARCH OF NEWS.
rwo PLUckY REPORTERS TOUR THE
WORLD FOR FIVE YEARS.
They Have Clrcled the Globe and Visited
Nearly Every Country-Their Many Ex-
citing Experiences when They Reach
Home They VIII Write a Book.

1 Phlip Hanna and T. Lem Burnettl,
two young newspaper men of Melbourne,
Australia, now in America. are just com
pleting one of the most remarkable trips
for news ever made. They have already
been five years at work, have circed the
globe, have met with thrilling adventures
and still have thousands of miles TO travel
before their journey is ended. They ex
pect 20 reach home on Christmas day for
the first time in six years.
The two reporters represent The Eura-
ton of Calcutta, India; The Asiatic Of
Hongkong, The Diggers' Journal of Jo
hannesburg and the Melbourne Argus
Australia, and have been sending special
news letters TO them during their entire
trip.
Hanna and Burnett started out from
Melbourne five years and four months ago
10 go completely around the world, visit
all the points of interest In every country
and make their living by describing what
they saw. They started with little bag
gage and only $50 in money. A camera
was their principal property as they in
tended taking snap shots of everything that
proved interesting.
They first visited the Thursday islands,
where the greatest pearl fisheries of the
world are, and a week was spent in seeing
the sights. They then went to Yokohama
and Tokyo and on to Hongkong, where
they were initiated into the mysteries of
Chinese culinary. Their route led to
Bangkok, Siam; Singapore, Pen Yam and
Andamar the penal settlement of India,
and TO Alden, the most wicked city In the
world; Bushire Persia, and to Tunis,
Algiers, Marocco, Jiddah and Mecca.
Mount Sinai, Jerusalem and all parts of
J the Holy Land We're visited, and the ma
tives were found to be all beggars. They
then went over to Tamatave, in Madagas-
| car, where they witnessed part of the
French invasion, and back to Zanzibar
and the south coast of Africa, where cam
els were taken from Zambezi, going down
| through Mashonaland, Bechuanaland,
Zululand and the Transvaal where the
famous Dom Paul Kruger, the gruff South
African president, was visited.
! Back in the bush from Zambezi the re-
! porters found n race of pygmies that were
covered from head to foot with hair and
were more like apes than men. They had
language of their own, however, and
writings like the Zulus. With the same
| spirit that inspires relic hunter, Burnetti
dickered with the tribe and succeeded in
years old, for a plug of tobacco. The little
| thing, like all the members of the tribe
was carniyorous and could not be weaned
She died before the newspaper men reached
the coast. They said the country was
alive with the pygmies, who were compar-
atively peaceable.
While going through Bechuanaland the
two wanderers were accompanied by a ma
tive guide who had been with Stanley.
They essayed TO hunt lions, and Burnett
one day shot and severely wounded
young one. Going closer to dispatch it, he
was seized and three toes were bitten Off
before he could be rescued. The natives
dressed the wounds with their rude nipple
ments, and the travellers were compelled to
lie In the bush for weeks.
In Kaflirland Hanna and Burpetti at
tended a SAGA bona, "a native feast, at which
drinking and dancing are the principal
enjoyments. lingo, the drink, usually
crazed the dancers, and they whirled about
in the most fendish manner, with spears
uplifted Burnett happened to enter a
kraal where some women were when the
natives espied him. They rushed pellmell,
with spears raised, and ran one through
Hanna's side before the guides could ex-
plain.
y
tralians in Orange Free State and Cape
Colony and in inspecting the diamond
mines Mt Jaggersafontein and Kimberley.
There they found the native miners ter
ribly abused A native Is compelled to
sign a contract for six months and Is not
allowed out of the precincts of the mine
until the contract Is finished. They get
So a month and when they are through
are put through course of treatment that
leaves few alive. This careful watch has
been necessitated by diamond stealing.
From Africa they went to ct. Helena,
the death place of Napoleon Bonaparte,
! where all the boys of the island take the
emperor's first name and tho girls the last.
| A monument now marks the deposed
monarchs former grave They then visit.
ed the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, island of
Tenerife, and entered Europe at Lisbon,
going on to Madrid and Cadiz in Spain,
| and the island of Crete, arriving there
| about two years ago. Trouble among the
natives was then brewing. Constantine
| pie was taken in OH the route, and visits
were paid to Odessa, Moscow and st. Pc
tersburg, Warsaw in Poland, Scandinavia,
Germany, France, Italy, to Brindisi and
the British isles.
They left Southampton for the West In
dies and went to the east coast of South
America, around Cape Horn, Falkland
islands, Valparaiso to Bogota, and by the
isthmus of Panama to San Francisco
| They started east by way of New Mexico
and are now near the Atlantic coast.
While in South America they went l 200
miles up the Amazon to Manaos and exist
ed for some time on young monkeys
stuffed with Brazilian nuts. Over 700
pounds of ivory and skins were sent home
by them from Cape Horn.
/ Burnett says that while In Havana he
was arrested on suspicion ana kept for
week in MORO castle and was liberated by
the British consul. The morning he was
freed four Americans were shot. He says
| that many Americans sympathi2ing with
! Cuba are now imprisoned 10y Spain on
| the island and have to endure terrible sui.
fering.
The reporters say they saw so much
that IL will take book to tell it all, and
they propose writing one when they re-
turn homo. They have been charmed with
American hospitality, and say they have
| II. Al.