Yesterday there alighted from a bicycle outside the office of the N-C. Daily News, young-looking and strongly-built cyclist, who without delay introduced himself to us as Frank G. Lenz, and informed us that he purposed crossing China "with wheel and camera." It is not often that a subject ao openly enters the net of the interviewed, and then and there Mr. Lenz was submitted to that catechetical examination, whickso many men—and women too—viow with something like jun, but which for Mr, Lenz hins, seemingly, little terror. He hails from America, and this maybe explains the abandon' with which he submitted to the process, 'I am twenty-five years of age, 5 ches in height, and Weigh 146ibs.," he said, Such ready candour was rather novel, and from an interviewee"—to use a coined word—prepared with such accurate data as this, what might we not expect? Ho evidently knew what was required of him, and an interesting little conversation followed, It seems that Mr. Lenz was formerly ina brass manufacturing establishment in Pittsburg, and desiring- a holiday likely to afford some adventure, decided on nothing short of a trip round the world, Accordingly he set about his arrangements, and finally was appointed the representative of Outing to tour round the globe, It will be recollected that it was on bebulf of this magazine that Mr. Stevens sume years ago visited Shanghai on a similar errand, On 4th June Mr. Lenz started from New York, and rode across the States to Portland (Oregon) some 4,028 miles. 'Thence he.proceeded to San Francisco, arriving on 20th October last, with a distance of 5,412 miles to his credit. He crossed the Pacific to Honolulu on 18 November, and leaving the sawe day arrived. at' Yokohama on the 14th idem. The character ut the American toads, a8 our readers may expect, was uniformly, bad, that the cyclist was agreeably surprised with the Japanese roads from Yokohama to Kioto, Kobe, Shimonoseki, and Nagasaki.
is journey measured 960 miles, and as Stevens only reported sume 700 miles in On Monday last Mr. Lenz departed from pa feng is correspondingly proud. Nagasaki, reaching here on Wednesday night in the Saikio Maru.. So far he has met with only the ordinary tribulations of the traveller, and look to China to provide
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