 He taught English and economics at Changsha, deep in the interior of Hunan Province.He remained there for a year and spent the next year visiting Java, India, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma with fellow Yale alumni Ward Cheney and Stanley Woodward.During these travels he went hunding along with two American friends of his with the Nawab of Bhopal, quite probably Hamidullah Khan After returning to the United States in 1924, Speiden embarked on a successful Wall Street career.