Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-11
man Who HIKED AROUND WORLD
GOES To London FOR OPERATION

pound pack, and heard him lecture.
Often Went without Food.
Then Canada went wild over the
war. People paid little attention to
world travellers, and DR.. Dawson began
to go longer and longer without lee
turing at night In the villages. Often
he went without food, at one time for
a period of more than two days. b.
the terms of the agreement he would
not beg, borrow, or steal II was thus
that he limped into Vancouver in De-
cember too late for the Makura and
Australia by two days.
DR.. Dawson smiles now at the
thought of the way he missed the
prize 1t wasn't so much the $1,000
/ missed" he says. "as the fact that
didn't make good on the bet" In
spite Of the smile one can see that
he feels the disappointment keenly.
OF course that 10-year trip is filed
with stories and it is by writing these
stories for an English publishing firm
that the doctor has spent his time
since arriving in Honolulu. One large
volume of his travels is to come from
the press in few weeks. He has
found the war excitement in England
a help to him as q writer, as people
are growing tired of war news ,and
like travel stories now.
Homesick Just Once.
Once in the trip" says Dawson, Il
felt homesick. That was the day ]
started over the English channel for
the first time in % years, and looked
across to see the cliffs of England.
realized what a change would be
brought at home by the years and the
thought got the best of me for the
moment
Dawson had been away from home
for 90 years. He spent three days
there at the Christmas season and
then hurried away on his unique jour.
ney. AS an example of the wonderful
staying powers which he developed in
the years of walking, may be cited
the instance of how he walked from
London on December % at midnight,
arriving at home at few minutes be.
fore 6 o'clock on the following eve
ming. The distance was nearly go
miles. DIR. Dawson has numerous pho
tographs and newspaper, clippings tell.
ing Of his trip from the various coun.
tries through which he passed.
His return to England Is for Sc.
rious operation on his eye, made nee
essary from an accident he suffered
several years ago when struck in the
Australian bush by a boomerang which
he himself had thrown. s., 81
Bone Mas Crushed. aa
The bone over his left eye was
crushed, q small portion of 1t dropping
behind 4 the eyeball and now causing
him intense pain at times. He has al
ready suffered the loss OF sight in
the injured eye. 5e ti 49,
"a classmates sof the doctor from the
University of Edinburgh win perform
the separation, one of them being Sir
Philip Dams, who has done much OF
the. optical surgery for the wounded
soldiers since the beginning Of the
war. s
Next spring If things go well Dr..
Dawson is to lead an exploring party
into South America from British
Guinea through to the western coast
of the continent for the Royal Geo
graphical Society OF London. of which
he is member, and which has allow
ed him a large compensation for his
10-year hike around the world. Two
other Honolulu men will probably go
with him on the trip.
DR.. Dawson receives regularly pen
sion from the Australian common
wealth because of exploration work he
accomplished in the little-known in
terror.