Bly wrote for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and traveled with one small bag. She went by steamship and train through England, France, where she met Jules Verne, then Egypt, Ceylon, Hong Kong and Japan.
Another reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, raced her in the opposite direction. Bly arrived back in New Jersey on 25 January 1890 after 72 days, a world record at the time.
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