Around the World on Wheels, for The Inter Ocean The Travels and Adventures in Foreign Lands of Mr. and Mrs. H. Darwin McIlrath

Cycling in Burmah proved extremely monotonous, and the dullest of all the dreary rides we experienced were here. Nowhere was there a variety of scene or change from the level va...

Utah I found to be full of snakes, lizards and swollen streams. Mrs. McIlrath, Duxbury and I had personal encounters in this direction and our escapes were thrilling. It was on...

Grand Island, Neb., is a small city, but it contains more wheelmen, in proportion to its size, than any city we encountered. There are two bicyclists' clubs, the "Tourists" and...

Among my letters was one bearing a check from the Inter Ocean, and I lost no time in going to the bank to obtain the money upon it. The cashier required strong identification, w...

The statement made by someone that man's birth, marriage and death are the three important epochs in his brief career, find support in the custom of the Chinese. Births are hera...

On the eighth day of our trip from Hankow, Mrs. McIlrath contracted a severe cold, which impeded our progress and caused me great alarm. Much of the journey, on this account, ha...

From Karnaul we journeyed steadily north, head-winds baffling attempts at speed, and showers and sand storms retarding us for hours. In several instances, we were compelled to j...

The Club Hotel, which is the headquarters for American tourists and residents, is situated only a block from the pier and adjacent to the Consulates, shops and points of interes...

A curious and confusing method of road measurement exists in Roumania, by which many cyclists are led to believe distances are far less than is really the case. If the official...

The rain which we had looked for did not disappoint us. The water poured steadily for three days following the Fourth of July, and on the 7th the water rose twenty feet in eight...

We remained under the hospitable roof of Dr. McCartney's residence for nine days, during which time Mrs. McIlrath recovered from the serious illness which threatened her in the...

Gen. Jones, a tall, broad-shouldered man, whose handsome face was crowned with silvery white hair and ornamented by a flowing mustache and imperial, impressed me as one of the m...

Describing the ruins of an ancient city, a famous structure, or even a locality, which, to the modern world, is vaguely grasped as having an existence, is a task most difficult....

At 8 o'clock on the evening of March 4 our boat moored at the locks of the Grand Canal at Su Chow, but the hour was so late and the streets appeared so dirty and uncertain, that...

We left Resht Monday, March 21, on board the nondescript steamer "B." There were but two cabins afforded by the steamer, and to one of these Capt. Ahrninckie assigned the Inter...

The morning of July 8 we set forth for Elko, twenty-six miles away. Mrs. McIlrath and I were moving along at a good gait, when a band of horsemen overtook us near Osina. They da...

We left Calcutta early on the morning of May 4, taking the Strand road, across the sacred Hoogly river by means of the Jubilee bridge. We were accompanied for a brief distance b...

Once well under way, our rebellious gang traveled peaceably, making good time, possibly because we would not permit them to stop for rest or a few whiffs of opium in any of the...

Days of intense heat reigned, and snow marked our progress through the Yunnan and Kwei Chan provinces. The snowstorm rivaled in force a Texas blizzard, so exhausting our coolies...

Our last days in India were spent during the monsoon season. The deserts had become lakes of steaming water, the matted undergrowth of rank grass and vegetation rotting, and tha...

The sun was setting when we left Yoshida, and with our path principally composed of the narrow dikes separating the rice fields, progress was painfully slow. Miyhoji, seven mile...

We took passage on the little coasting steamer "Assyria," leaving Kurrachee on Sept. 28, at 7 o'clock in the morning. There were but two other passengers in the cabin besides Mr...

When I consented to the plan of going around the world I intended to make the trip alone, but my wife pleaded so hard to accompany me that I finally concluded to take her. She i...

We lingered three days at Kashan before the preliminary treatment of my wife's feet permitted us to proceed. Here we spent our Christmas Day, dejected and home-sick. In vain we...

It was our idea to see the sights of Lucknow in two days and return to Cawnpore on the evening of the second, but our plans were changed, as Messrs. Thoburn, Robinson and Mansel...

Saluted by the king of Roumania--A country where cyclists are in their glory--Splendid riding into Austro-Hungary--Vienna gives the Inter Ocean tourists the heartiest of welcome...

Hard cycling in a hailstorm--A speeder with one leg arouses the admiration of the World's tourists--In Colorado at the one-time rendezvous of the famous James Boys and their gan...

Received in state by the Tao Tai of Su Chow--Invited to witness the execution of a woman by the "Seng Chee" method--Debut of the bicycle along the Grand Canal--"Foreign devils"...

Made wanderers at midnight through the whim of an unreasonable woman--Breaking a coasting record at Hot Springs, Colo.--Western railroad beds as dangerous as the Spanish Mines i...

A toast to the United States on Burmese soil--"On the Road to Mandalay"--Entertained at a wedding of royalty, where a feature of the programme caused ladies to retire and bachel...

Last days in India spent during the dreaded monsoon season--The pet monkey's appetite for rubber brings about an annoying delay--Officials refuse to let the Inter Ocean tourists...

A visiting card left on the Porch of Xerxes--At the ruins of Persepolis--Some plain truths, as to the character of the Armenians--Lost in a snowstorm on the peak of a mountain--...

Two and one-half days getting into Nebraska--Many friends made on the road--An unanswerable argument in favor of the "rational" costume for women--An encounter with the law at M...

Lizards, snakes and swollen streams make traveling lively for tourists--Paralysis of hands and arms necessitates a week's course of medical treatment--"Tommy Atkins," most compa...

Inter Ocean tourists become tramps through rain and snow, with the wheels carried on bamboo poles--Nearing the boundary line of China--Sudden change of climate and a narrow esca...

Pursued by a maddened herd of water buffalo--A joke ends in a race for life--The Yankee flag a conspicuous feature of the Queen's Jubilee at Delhi--A reminder of the plucky but...

The most miserable Christmas day ever passed by man--The Sultan's cavalrymen forced to admit the superiority of the bicycle--Deserted by a cowardly driver on the road to Teheran...

Landed in Russia three years after leaving Chicago--Easter Sunday in Tiflis, the "Paris of the Caucasus"--In sight of Mount Ararat--The pet monkey commits suicide in Constantino...

Vigilantes of Nevada mistake the wheelman for a notorious bandit--Saved by one's gold teeth--Into Reno, where hospitality has its abode--Quick time to California, and then off f...

The American people's able representative at Ching Kiang--A reminiscence of his pluck and courage in settling claims for his country--Wheeling by night in a strange country with...

The Yang-Tse-Kiang in its fiercest mood turned to advantage by a native undertaker--An appreciative Tai Foo pays the tourists for calling upon him--Severe punishment of a graspi...

Patriotism nearly lands McIlrath in a native prison--A night of terror attributed to Rodney, the pet monkey--Cyclists stricken with fever and become helpless invalids at Lahore-...

Saved by a Mandarin from the clutches of an Asiatic Shylock--Cyclists stray into the dangerous province of Hunan--Taken into Shaze, the city of blood and crimes--The Yang-Tse Ki...

Quartered at the Club Hotel, Yokohama--Japan's extraordinary credit system--At the funeral of a prince, and a few points noted on Japanese crowds--Uncle Sam's people get the bes...

His Highness, the Emperor, objects to being "shot" by a camera--The war holidays at Shokausha Park, Kudan--By steamer to China--An effective "gun" for Chinese dogs--Cyclists the...

Guests at a Chinese wedding--The dark side of life in China sought and found--Indescribable horrors of a native prison--New Year extravagantly celebrated--Mrs. McIlrath's pen pi...

Coolie guides and luggage bearers desert the tourists--Opium the curse of the Chinese Empire--The most dangerous stage of the Chinese trip concluded at last--Chung King's conjur...

On board the "Assyria" bound for Persia--American firearms come in handy when road agents ask for "presents"--Climbing the Alps child's play compared with crossing the Kotals of...