samurai-runner

Updated: June 2, 2025

To see him cleave a way through the multitudes for me to follow, keeping up a six-mile pace the while, swinging his arms like a windmill, one might well imagine me a real dai-mio on wheels with faithful samurai-runner ahead, warning away the common herd from my path.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II : From Teheran To Yokohama