[3,000 MILES ON RAILWAY SLEEPERS.]
ONE ASPECT OF MY BICYCLE RIDE ROUND THE WORLD.
By Edward Lunn.
Illustrated with Photos by F. H. Lowe.
MR. EDWARD LUNN AND THE BICYCLE HE RODE ROUND THE WORLD.
The question most frequently put to me since I returned with my two companions, Mr. Lowe and Mr. Fraser, from my cycling tour round the world has been, "What were the roads like?" and to answer this question fully would require a volume rather than a magazine article.
There were the paved roads of Belgium, the excellent military roads of Germany, the steep slopes of Austro-Hungary and Roumania, the cart-tracks of Southern Russia, the Government highway over the Caucasus, the post-road to Erivan, the camel-tracks of Persia, the Grand Trunk road of India, the bouldered highways of China, and the Tokaido of Japan, not to mention the alkali deserts of Nevada and the old Colonial roads of the Eastern States—the only thoroughfares deserving the name in the Land of the Stars and Stripes, excepting always the excellent pavements in the great American cities.
WE HAD TO RIDE ON SLEEPERS THROUGH FORTY-THREE MILES OF SNOW SHEDS—THIS SORT OF THING.