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Title: Across Asia on a Bicycle

Author: Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben

Release Date: January 29, 2010 [Ebook #31111]

Language: English

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ACROSS ASIA ON A BICYCLE

[Illustration: THROUGH WESTERN CHINA IN LIGHT MARCHING ORDER.]

ACROSS ASIA ON A
BICYCLE

THE JOURNEY OF TWO AMERICAN STUDENTS
FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO PEKING

BY
THOMAS GASKELL ALLEN, JR.
AND
WILLIAM LEWIS SACHTLEBEN

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1894

Copyright, 1894, by
THE CENTURY CO.

_All rights reserved._

THE DEVINNE PRESS.

TO

_THOSE AT HOME_

WHOSE THOUGHTS AND
WISHES WERE EVER
WITH US IN OUR
WANDERINGS

PREFACE

This volume is made up of a series of sketches describing the most
interesting part of a bicycle journey around the world,--our ride across
Asia. We were actuated by no desire to make a "record" in bicycle travel,
although we covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous land
journey ever made around the world.

The day after we were graduated at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.,
we left for New York. Thence we sailed for Liverpool on June 23, 1890.
Just three years afterward, lacking twenty days, we rolled into New York
on our wheels, having "put a girdle round the earth."

Our bicycling experience began at Liverpool. After following many of the
beaten lines of travel in the British Isles we