
Despite this burden, he did manage to find time for travel and personal pursuits, such as his circumnavigation of the world between 1892 and 1893. After visiting India he spent time hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia in 1893, then traveled on to Nouméa, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Sarawak, Hong Kong, and Japan. After sailing across the Pacific on the RMS Empress of China from Yokohama to Vancouver. he crossed the United States, arriving at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893 on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad on a private Pullman car named Mascotte, and staying at the Lexington Hotel, before continuing through to New York and returning to Europe.