Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
MOST TRAVELLED WOMAN.
Who Has Been son the Wing" Con.
tinuOusly for ~ Years.

Who Has been "On the Wing" Con.
tinuOusIy for ~ Years.
Probably the most travelled woman
In the world is Miss Celeste j. Miller,
Of Chicago. For twenty-seven years
continuously she has been ION the
wing" and here Is n partial record OF
her most remarkable travel achieve
ments:
Five times has she circled the globe
completely, in addition to almost In
Vulnerable briefer European and Ash
attic Journeys that would seem long to
less Travelled person.
She has visited every known country
and capital in the world, with prac-
tically every group Of islands, however
remote, and this, whenever possible,
before the ordinary tourist route has
been worked out.
The first woman to traverse South
America alone, she crossed the Andes
twice on this trip, covered the entire
region, and made original discoveries
and explorations.
The first woman to 60 over the Trans
Siberian Railway, she Travelled 900
miles In Manchurla in mule palan-
quin, sleeping in Chinese hotels, visit
ing the great Chinese wall, etc.
Her first visit to Palestine and
Syria was distinguished by a 5O0-mile
ride on an Arab horse. During this
Journey she had no tent. passing her
nights In native huts, with sheep herd
ers and 50 on.
In Morocco she also traveled-5O0
miles-on muleback.
In Central America, Newfoundland,
ETC., she lived with and studied all
manner Of queer people such as the
Cheli Indians, Nubia negroes and Es-
kimos, 1t being one Of her unbreak-
able travel rules to hobnob with the
different races met, and to stay In
each country long enough really to
learn somthing of It's ways and inhabi-
tants.
She has made the Mediterranean
trip" four times, done" Egypt and the
Nile twice, visited Turkey twice, and
run across" to the European conti-
nent so many times that she long
since ceased to keep track" Of such
comparatively insignificant jaunts.
She had been all over India, the East
and West Indian Islands, Cuba, the
Philippines, 'Corea and Hawaii long be-
fore 1t became usual to visit these
places.
She has visited 10000 mosques, tenn
pies and churches.
In addition to all this she knows
intimately every portion Of America,
and even when mot travelling" accord
ing to her own understanding Of the
term, thinks nothing Of flying of to
California, Alaska, the south, any
where that her active fancy takes her.
The further Is remarkable because:
She always travels alone.
With the exception of a slight smat-
tering Of French and German, she has,
literally, mo tongue but her own to
help her about strange countries.
She has realized ner ne aiipl'loh'
though 1t has cost her, on an average,
SO per day for 27 years to do So
She has never been sick day, away
from home, with the exception Of occa-
sional slight attacks Of seasickness,
though she has been through fifteen
epidemics Of the bubonic plague In In
dia and China, visited the Indian
burning CHATS in places from which
the American minister had fed in dis
may.
Miss Miller enjoys travelling as much
now as when she started and at pres
ent, having remained in America for
some time, she is planning "the long
est trip around the world" ever taken.