The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-14
IN SEARCH OF NEWS.
TWO pLUcxv REPORTERS TOUR THE
WORLD FOR FIVE YEARS.


Thsy Have CircIsd the Globe snd Visited
Nearly Every Country-Theiy Many Ex-
citing Experiences - When They Reach
Home They Will Write Book.
Philip Hanna and E. Lem Burnett,
two young newspaper mon of Melbourne,
Australia, now In America. ore just CON-
plsting ono of the most remarkable trips
for news ever made. They have already
been i've years at work, have circled the
globc, have met with thrilling adventures
and still have thousands of miles TO travel
before their journey IL ended. They sx-
pecs 70 reach homo on Christmas day for
the FIRST time in six years.
The two reporters represent The Eura-
tion Of Calcutta, India; The Asistic Of
HongkoDg. The Digger Journal OF Jo-
banncsburg and tho Melbourne Argus,
Australia, and have been sending special
news letters 70 them during their entire
'riE -. pn.,..., ....... ,,. ,,,,,
Melbourne I've years and four months ago
20 20 completely nround the world, visit
all the points of interest In every country
end make their living By describing what
they saw. They started with little bag-
gage and only ESQ In money. A camera
was their principal property, AZ they In
tended taking snap shots Of everything that
proved interesting.
They nrst visited the Thursday islands,
where the greatest pearl fisheries Of the
world are, and week wss spent In seeing
the sights. They then went TO Yokohama
end Tokyo and on 20 Hongkong, whore
they vsro initiated into the mysteries Of
Chinese culinary. Their route led TO
Bangkok. Siam; Singapore, PEN Yam and
AndAmaS, the penal settlement Of india,
and 10 Alden, the most wicked city In the
world; BushiYs, Persia, and 20 Tunis,
AIg,evs, Marocco, Jiddah and Mecca.
Mount Sinai, jerusalem and all parts Of
| tho Holy Land were visited, and the ma
tiyes were found 10 Be sll 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 wers taken from ZAmbezi, going down
through Mashopaland, Bechuanaland,
Zululnnd and the Transvaal, where the
| famous Dom Paul Kruger, the grun South
| African president, was visited.
Back in the bush from Zambezi the re-
porters found o 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
| dicksred with the tribe and succeeded In
purchasing q little girl, perhaps 1S or IA
years old, for plug Of tobacco. The little
thing, like all the members Of the tribe,
was carnivorous and could not be weaned.
She died before the newspaper men reachei
the coast They said the country was
alive with the pygmies, who were compar-
atively peaceable.
whilo going through Bechuansland the
two wanderers were accompanied BY M.
tive guide who had been with Stanley.
They essayed to hunt lions, and Burnetti
one day shot and severely wounded q
young one. Going closer to dispatch 1t, he
was seized and three toes were bitten of
before be could be rescued. The natives
dressed the wounds with their rude imple
mepts, and the travellers were compelled to
lie In che bush for weeks.
In Kaffirland Hanna and BurDetti at
tended q saca bona, q native feast, at which
dr:nkIng and dancing are the principal
enjoyments. lingo, the drink, usually
erased the dancers, and they whirled about
in the most fendish manner, with spears
uplifted. Burnetti happened to enter q
krael where some women were when the
natives ospied him. They rushed pellmeli,
with spears raised, and ran one through
Hanna'e side before the guides could ex'
plain.
Some time was spent by the young Aus.
| IT, Gtof nd
Colony and in Inspecting the diamond
mines at Jaggersafontein and Kimberley.
There they found the native miners ter
ribly abused. A native Is compelled to
sign contract for six months and is not
allowed out Of the precincts Of the mine
until the contract Is finished. They get
IS n month, and when they are through
are put through course Of treatment that
leaves few alive. This careful watch has
been nccessitated by diamond stealing.
From Africa they went to st. Helena,
the death place of Napoleon Bonaparte,
where all the boys of the island take the
emperor's first name and the girls the last.
A monument now marks the deposed
monarch's former grave. They then visit
cd 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 on 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 arc now near the Atlantic coast.
While In South America they went l, 300
miles up the Amazon to Manaos and exist
cd for some time on young monkeys,
| sfuffed with BRAZILIAN nuts Over roo