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Show while in the Holland navy stationed in Indian waters. They are well posted bn Europe, having toured that continent several years ago on a large wager. Under the terms ot their present stunt, they must walk the entire distance except where water transportation Is necessary, and their expenses must be made through' the sale of their post-card photcgrnphs- They state that they encountered heavy snow betwoen Ogden and Evan-ston. Evan-ston. Wyo.,. but anticipate no serlouu difficulty between here, and the coast, They expect to pick up considerable of the languages of the countries through which they pass In Asia, the tongues which they already speak being be-ing adequate in every way for European Europ-ean travel. . - They have already met with difficulty In comprehending Chinese Chi-nese . as well - as making themselves understood In that tongue. In passing pass-ing through Coma, a small station in Wyoming, they asked tho first citizen of the place, a Chinaman, for something some-thing to eat; offering their pocket books ns evidence of their good faith and ability to pay. The Chink thought they wero bogging and turned them down. They then pointed to theli months, and as each of them had a straggling suspicion of beard growtli upon his face," the Chink Boon ap peared with a howl of hot water 6oap and a razor, thus officially recogniz Ing, for the first time, their hirsute facial adornment They finally made the slant-eyed one understand that 11 wan food for their inner man that wat wanted and were provided with a neajv Ing pan of boiled rice. This exhausted their endeavors as well as soothm? their appetite for the time, and thej proceeded upon their way. TWO GLOBE TROTTERS ARRIVE YOUNG HOLLANDERS HOPE TO WIN DENVER POST WAGER Three-Year Tim Limit, Six Thousand Dollars With the Experience of World-Wide Travel Calling upon the chief . of police and obtaining his signature, with that of the mayor and others, were two globe trotters by the names of Gilbert W Krlesz and John A. Vrolyk.aged 26 and 27 respectively. respect-ively. The young men are Hollanders by birth and are essaying to walk around the world without money, on a wager of $0,000 between the Denver Post and their backers, who are also of Denver. The time allowed them for the trip is three years and they are confident of completing the Journey Jour-ney well within the time .limit. They left Denver January 5tb, 1900, reach-In? reach-In? Ogden via Cheyenne and the Union Pacific tracks. Leaving Ogden in a day or two, they -will continue ; westward . via Reno, Sacramento, and San Francisco, Francis-co, where they will take steamer to Yokohoma, Japan. Continuing throagh the southern half of the Mikado's Mi-kado's realm, they will cross to Shanghai Shang-hai and pass down through .southern China, via Chan Long and Von Sing,' to Mochabo, India. ,Thelr next big city will be Calcutta, after which they will strike across the great Indian, peninsula, passing Nagpur' and ar; riving at Bombay. From the motrop oils of Hlndostan they will proceed westward through Persia and Asiatic Turkey, visiting Lar, Shiraa, Tspaban.J Teheran, Dlarharkm and Tskenderoonj Crossing the straits of Bosporus Into Europe, they will visit Constantinople and continue through Austro-Hungary to Vienna. From Vienna they will proceed into Prussia, and western Germany, Ger-many, via Vlntz, Narlmburg. Darmstadt. Darm-stadt. Frankfort, Welsbaden, Coblenz. Cologne, Dusseldorf 'and Kmerlch, Passing through Arnhelm and Rotterdam, they will cross the channel chan-nel to England, and crossing the lat: ter to Liverpool, pail for America. From New York they will follow the most direct route to Denver. ; The young men speak six languages. languag-es. Including German, Holland Dutch, Russian, Malay. English and Flemish. The Malay language they learned |