WOMEN IN WILDS.

Franklin Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 40, 4 April 1928, Page 6

WOMEN IN WILDS.

FOUR YEAR'S TOUR.

UNARMED AMONG ANIMALS

Mis Gertrude Benham.a woman of 60, on her arrival at Plymouth from Trinidad, in the West Indies, describing- to a reporter her solitary world wandering-s said:—

"On the average I have never spent more than about £250 a year; yet I have been in many parts of Africa, where no white woman had even been ] before. I walk everywhere , I can, using steamers, railways, and motor cars only when, necessary." She said that since 1902 she has been wandering except during three years of the war. She always travels unarmed and said that wild animals encountered during her travels *"n A.frica which she crossed from west to east ,never worried her. In her four years' tour just completed she visited she said, Arabia, Bagdad, Syria, Palestine, Tibet, the Himalayas, French Indo China and Japan. She crossed the Pacific to America and visited Gautemala, British Honduras and the West Indies.