ROUND THE WORLD IN FORTY DAYS.
[TO TIM EDITOR OF MD “SPRCTATOR:.] landed at Dover on June 13th, completing the circle of the world in forty days nineteen and a half hours. Had I succeeded in catching the St. Petersburg express at Berlin on June 12th, I should have reduced the time by several hours. But the trains do not run in connexion. I do not know if my round is a record one as to speed. lain told it is. But as it may be interesting, nevertheless, in these high- pressure, record-breaking times, to those who are fond of something exciting and out of the common, I annex full particulars of my journey. I sailed from Liverpool on May 3rd at 7.20 p.m. in the Canadian and Pacific Railway Company's steamer 'Empress of Ireland,' Captain Forster. I reached Quebec May 10th, 3 p.m. ; left Quebec by the Canadian Pacific Railway's oversee transcontinental mail. train on same date at 5 p.m., this train carrying the mails and first-class passengers only. Arrived at Vancouver on May 14th, 5 am.; departed Vancouver on May 14th at 12.30 p.m. by the Canadian Pacific Railway's mail-steamer 'Empress of China,' Captain Archibald. Arrived Yokohama on May 26th, 5 a.m.; departed ditto May 27th, 7 p.m., by rail for Tsaruga. Arrived Tsaruga May 28th, 9.30 a.m.; departed ditto May 28th, 6 p.m., by Japanese steamer for Vladivostok. Arrived Vladivostok May 30th, 2.15 p.m.; departed ditto May 30th, 7 p.m., by the trans-Siberian train for Moscow. Arrived Harbin May 31st, 7.25 p.m.; departed ditto May 31st, 8.30 p.m. Arrived Irkutsk June 4th, 6.30 p.m. Arrived Moscow June 10th, 2.38 p.m.; departed ditto June 10th, 6 p.m. Arrived Warsaw June 11th, 9.30 p.m.; departed ditto June 11th, 11.30 p.m. Arrived Berlin June 12th, 11.35 a.m.; departed ditto June 12th, 11.40 a.m. Arrived Cologne June 12th, 9.8 p.m.; departed ditto June 12th, 11.15 p.m. Arrived Ostend June 13th, 7.30 a.m.; departed ditto June 13th, 11 a in. Arrived Dover June 13th, 2.50 p.m. Your article, Sir, on "The Speed of Travel" in your issue of March 16th tempted me to try what could be done, and should this letter catch the eye of the correspondent in the Daily Mail of March 12th, whose most interesting letter I read with so
• Mr: R. W. ChinnbArs, in "The Mdide 'of Paradise."
much pleasure, will he kindly state if he knows of any case In which this route just taken by me, or, indeed, any other route "round the world," has been traversed in a shorter time, or in to short a time P I am exceedingly interested to know. The difficulties of such a trip are making good the numerous connexions, and the loss of one may entail several days' delay, but I had the singular good fortune to fit them all in. I narrowly escaped serious difficulty, however, for we got aground on May 30th on an isolated rocky island during a dense blanket of fog in the Sea of Japan, but providentially the rising tide lifted us off apparently undamaged, and enabled me, after all, to make good my railway connexion at Vladivostok. Had I missed the train, there was no other for four clays.—I am, Sir, 8:c., H. BIIIINLEY-CAMPBELL,
Ormidale, Colintraive, Argyll.
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