“Karl Creelman, a young man of 23, started on his bicycle “the Red Bird” from Nova Scotia on the 11th of May, 1899. Creelman is now on his way to Bombay on his splendid machine built by Goold and Co., of Ontario. He arrived at Ghazipur looking quite fit, and seems to have a better time of it in India up to the present. Creelman knows but five words of Hindustani with the aid of these, assisted by signs, he says he has got along very well. He left Ghazipur this morning for Benares, intending to cycle down to Bombay”.