ANIMAL VOYAGERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 15

ANIMAL VOYAGERS

A MUCH-TRAVELLED DOG.

Papyrus, on his voyage to and from America, covered about 6200 miles, but that is by .no means the longest trip ever made by an animal traveller, states G.T.B. in the "Daily Chronicle." Probably the record is held by one or other of the dogs that accompany, in a professional capacity, world-touring theatrical campanies. There was Lion, for instance, a huge St, Bernard, who played in "Hans the Boatman" at Terry's Theatre, and went twice round the worid with his party, -performing in India, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. His longest journey without a break was Sydney to Chicago, via London, a total of 17,150 miles.

Generally, ■ however, animals are not good travellers. Anyone who has been aboard an Atlantic cattle * boat in a gale will know what animal panic means. It is a ticklish job when the ship is rolling badly, and the screaming beasts are plunging and kicking.' Attendants are" often injured, and many cattle are so badly hurt that they have to be killed before reaching port.- Not infrequently, m the winter storms, beasts housed on deck are washed overboard and lost altogether. For Papyrus, of course the voyage was travel de luxe. But even so a voyage of 3100 miles is a big. ordeal for a temperamental thoroughbred.