People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1897 — TALE OF A TRAMP. [ARTICLE]

TALE OF A TRAMP.

Bob BrcrJUarldge’s Story of HU WaudaH la*> Kb Aatft ud Africa. ' Bob Breokinridge, for years consider ed incorrigible, the eon of the ex-co* gressman, has returned home after m ♦ hrac years’tramp. 1 Ho left Lexington, Ky., in the ear* summer of 1893, going to New Yoit* From there he. shipped on a sailing f|H gel before the mast to Calcutta, do* Ming the cape of Good Hope, through the Indian ocean and the b* of Bengal. Arriving at Calcutta ho H the ship’s employ and secured an afl p. intment as a government gnarfl which position he held for nine montjjfl Tiring of India, he shipped as a aaifl on a vessel bound for Cape Town. |H remained there for several montJH v/hen he went to Quilimane, on;:<j|H Seambezi river. He found South Afri* worse than India and concluded to « tarn to Calcutta. He shipped 0a. ,; 1* Forte Vic be, a vessel which sank wi|B all on board on its next voyage, t* weeks, after he had arrived at He remained in India several moqtjHj when he engaged with a vessel going* Australia. jfl He landed in New South WalH whew bo remained a year. He says isl country Is suffering from hard t’iflH which are ton times worse thangjLp* thing known in the United StowH From the antipodes be sailed on* Scotch ship across the Pacific to Aoa.pt* co, Mexico. Ee tramped through t* country to the City of Mexico, a d* tance of SCO miles, creasing the Madre mountains over the old Goat* mala trail. After many adventures a* much privation he ooratinuedmhis jpi* ney to San Antonio, Te&p||iexs|* was taken'ill with fever, After tuuM ing in a hospital several stenthe he o* t-ained work on a coasting schooner pl« ing b o a cities on the gulf.Ainoij* or two he took a trip to Arkansfl where tLv fever again kept kimic t*| for e, month. He thageame direJjM homo. says he is tireotfiradvent*| and vvili. is-tt! i down to.work. '||H