The San Francisco call., 1906-09-19
CIGARETTES
WITH THE SHAH.
n. Nakamura of Japan Is
Near Completion of Five
Year Trip Around World
CROSSES THE. ANDES

After having visited nearly every
country of the world. having smoked
cigarettes with the Shah of Persia.
visited the harem of the Sultan of
Turkey, travelled with a government
representative IN India. tasted of the
wealth Of South Africa, braved the
dangers of the Andes and assembled the
mighty Amazon, Nankichi Nakamura,
Japanese correspondent Is in San
Francisco on his way to his Toxic
home. He has traversed the globe In
just I'VE years and two months. His
adventures have been such as rival
those Of the ancient Egyptian Nights
Entertainments
He has met robber princes as strong
as Ali Baba and escaped death at their
hands by sheer cleverness OF tongue
He was IN train wreck in India.
where many were killed. and he bears
a scar across his forehead as evidence
of his narrow escape. He was Jailed
in Algeria and later released. He
starved in South America and was
feasted in Persia. He has had ad-
ventures OF every kind, yet he speaks
of them as ordinary occurrences. He
has learned to speak in FIVE different
languages.
FIFTY DOLLARS HIS FORTUNE.
Nakamura left Japan in August,
mission as special correspondent for
the Toxic Kokumin. He boarded a
China steamer and landed in Korea.
He travelled through North and South
China on horseback. Then he found
tramp steamer that carried him to
Java. He came up through Sumatra
over to Malay and took a train to
Birma. He visited Calcutta and went
into the interior of India as far as
Agra. He made. his way from Bonn
bay to Baluchistan, arriving there If
teen months after his start from Toxic.
He took a steamer up the Persian
Gulf and got to Teheran. where he
gained admittance to the presence OF
the Shah.
II didn't know what to say to him,
although / could speak Persian a lit
tie" said Nakamura, when telling of
the trip. He gave me a cigarette and
told me that he was glad to see me
and that l could go anywhere / pleased
in his country without fear of arrest.
1 thanked him and was ushered out"
The Shah gave him passport writ
ten and signed by himself.
Nakamura crossed the Caspian sea,
traversed the Caucasus, sailed the
Black sea and entered the land Of the
Sultan of Turkey. He was well re-
ceived. and, according to his version.
given a good time. He went on TO
can. seeing everything that was to be
seen. He was in Budapest, Bulgaria,
Odessa. Moscow. Finland. crossed the
North sea in Swedish boat and then
sailed for Africa in an English YES
sci. He went through the Kimberley.
UP the Orange river. visited every port
on the east side of Africa, camped in
Arabia and was Jailed In Algeria be-
cause he had no passport
London was reached gain In the
winter of 1904, and Nakamura came to
America, visiting San Francisco that
year and received a letter from Mayor
Schmitz. He went overland through
Mexico and Central America and en-
tered South America.
BRAVES ANDES AND AMAZON.
His most wonderful and dangerous
journey was through South America
He rode over strange mountains
crossed painless forests where no hu-
man footstep had over trod and rode
horseback across the Andes in a coun-
try so infested with robbers that he
dared not camp at night. He rode
from Bogata to Quito, trip that took
him fifty days.
He fought animals and disease sue
cessfully, and although captured by
robbers several times, always man
aged to escape death. Then he started
from Lima on horseback for the east
coast of Brazil. His horse died and
he walked. He drove canoe up the
Amazon. carrying it on his back across
fearful swamps, and landed at Para.
Brazil, three months after his start
He took ship to New Orleans and re-
entered San Francisco yesterday.
3 Nakamura worked his way along at
times. but for the most pavt the va
rious governments furnished him with
food and transportation. He carried
q letter from s. Isawa of the House of
Peers, which gave him entree every
where. He has a book of autographs
and passports signed by monarchs and
ministers Of state from many lands.