rsed 2500 kilometers (1550 miles) in
fourteen days and eighteen hours. His performances all over Europe were
so marvelous as to be almost incredible. In 1836, in the service of the
East India Company, he was dispatched from Calcutta to Constantinople,
across Central Asia. He traversed the distance in fifty-nine days,
accomplishing 9000 kilometers (5580 miles) in one-third less time than
the most rapid caravan. He died while attempting to discover the source
of the Nile, having reached the village of Syang.

A most marvelous feat of endurance is recorded in England in the first
part of this century. It is said that on a wager Sir Andrew Leith Hay
and Lord Kennedy walked two days and a night under pouring rain, over
the Grampian range of mountains, wading all one day in a bog. The
distance traversed was from a village called Banchory on the river Dee
to Inverness. This feat was accomplished without any previous
preparation, both men starting shortly after the time of the wager.

Riders.--The feats of endurance accomplished by the couriers who ride
great distances with many changes of horses are noteworthy. According
to a contemporary medical journal there is, in the Friend of India, an
account of the Thibetan couriers who ride for three weeks with
intervals of only half an hour to eat and change horses. It is the duty
of the officials at the Dak bungalows to see that the courier makes no
delay, and even if dying he is tied to his horse and sent to the next
station. The celebrated English huntsman, "Squire" Osbaldistone, on a
wager rode 200 miles in seven hours ten minutes and four seconds. He
used 28 horses; and as one hour twenty-two minutes and fifty-six
seconds were allowed for stoppages, the whole time, changes and all,
occupied in accomplishing this wonderful feat was eight hours and
forty-two minutes. The race was ridden at the Newmarket Houghton
Meeting over a four-mile course. It is said that a Captain Horne of the
Madras Horse Artillery rode 200 miles on Arab horses in less than ten
hours along the road between Madras and Bangalore. When we consider the
slower speed of the Arab horses and the roads and climate of India,
this performance equals the 200 miles in the shorter time about an
English race track and on thoroughbreds. It is said that this wonderful
horseman lost his life in riding a horse named "Jumping Jenny" 100
miles a day for eight days. The heat was excessive, and although the
horse was none the wo