Thomas Stevens, with his bicycle, returns by…

Thomas Stevens, with his bicycle, returns by steamer to San Francisco, in January, 1887.

Stevens' travels through Japan had been reported in the Jijishinpou newspaper.

Along the way, Stevens had sent a series of letters to Harper's magazine detailing his experiences; he will later collect those experiences into a two-volume book of one thousand pages, Around the World on a Bicycle.