Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-18
Globe Trotter Now
In Far Off BOrneO

winthrop, Me-, Jan. 1T rain IL
jackson, for many years globe-tratter,
has just been heard from in Borneo.
Letters have been received telling of
his visit to the Kingdom of Sarawak.
He writes that, although Sarawak is
under British protection, Sir Charles
Brooke is absolute ruler with power Of
life and death.
He says the Sea Dyak women are fire.
quently good looking. He notes that
Kuching. the capital. is one of the pref
test places imaginable. He writes:
You have only to walk couple of
miles out of the city to be lost as COM
pleteiy as III the Sahara desert. One
night you may sleep in a Dyak house
amid the most savage surroundings
and the next night be dining at a COM
Portable hotel in Kuching."
Mr.. Jackson left home when he was
Is years of age went West and finally
set sail for the Hawaiian Islands,
where he taught school. He later land
ed in Australia, where he remained
nearly seven years Mr.. Jackson has
Travelled almost constantly for 80 years,
has visited every State in the Union,
almost every country in the world,
crossed the Atlantic II times, the Pa
cific seven times, been entirely around
the world eight times and has made
an average 10000 miles in each circuit.
including all the side trips. He has a
great knowledge of the customs and
habits of numerous countries, a smat-
tering of various languages and dia-
lects and wide knowledge Of all
kinds Of monies.
Mr.. jackson struck the Transyaal
about a year after Cecil Rhodes land
ed there and saw him many times. For
several years Mr.. jackson was at the
Panama Canal. He highly praises John
F. Stevens, the Maine engineer. who
formerly lived in Gardiner and who had
much to do with the early planning of
the canal.
One night Mr.. jackson passed in a
cell in a Jail in Algiers. He was walk
ing along the boulevard when he pick
ed up an old purse in which were four
pennies and a ticket to the opera. He
made known the circumstances to the
clerk at the hotel and, at his sugges-
ton, decided to use the ticket and go
to the opera. He hardly had seated
himself at the opera house before two
gendarmes walked down the aisle and
marched him to the Jail. The next
morning he was lined up in court with
drunken Arabs and other prisoners
where he finally had a chance to ex-
plain and was released.
MIR. jackson first crossed Panama in
1887. He was in Samoa at the time of
the great hurricane and in China dur
ing the boycott against the Americans
about the time of the massacre of the
missionaries. Hc was personally taken
over much Of the territory included In
the Japanese Russian war four months
after the conflict closed.
He passed four years travelling in
India and had access to many person
ages Of note. He has Travelled con-
siderabiy in Siberia, was in South AZ
RIGA through the first Boer War, passed
months In the Holy Land and 'travers-
ed Italy.
Mr.. Jackson has been all over the
West Indies and through most OF the
South American countries. His longest
water trip was q days. from San Fran
cisco to Australia. In Germany, France
and England he has also passed much
time. He speaks Spanish as we'll as
English, and is a graduate Of Amherst
College.