Lieut.-Col, Souvoroff's Ride to Nanking and Back on Almas:
Fifty Miles a Day for Eight Days Lieut-Colonel P. Souvoroff, part-net and chief instructor at the Haig Riding School in Shanghai, has just returned from a true busman's holiday, namely a trip on one of the school ponies to Nanking and back, alone, and with no knowledge of Chinese, He was provided with a Chinese passport and also a certificate in both English and Chinese which certified that he was "making a trip from Shanghai to Nanking and back on horseback with a view to testing the strength and endurance of the Chinese pony." Also he had in his pocket book two pages of words in Mandarin, which hho had transcribed as nearly possible phonetically into Russi script, Among the list occur such requirements—as:—Food, water, straw, barley, hotel, bran, fish, bread, soap, meat, chicken, exes ote.
The trip had boon under consideration for some time, til at last, on August 25, Mr. Souvoro" departed at 6.30 am, taking with him a Blanket under the saddle and a change of clothing strapped behind, "His first day's itinerary Hed him vid Naziang, Wangdo, Anting and Loukapang, where. he stayed the first night after having done about 40 mile 'The second day's journey proved considerably harder us there were no roads but plenty of rivers and few bridges. In the carly stages of his trip, Mr. Souvoroft explained, ho tried as much as possible to avoid making his. pony' swim and cotting wet himself; in order to do this he had to make wide detours which took him out of his course, Later on, however, he became more confident and loss patient: if a appeared ho just. dismounted and swam by the side of "Almas," the any, with his hand on the pommel "The chief discomfort after auc! swim was my boots" he said. had to tilt them up s0 as to empty the water on "They were neo boots, too" he added reflectively and: ruefully.
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