CARRIER PIGEONS.
Iu connection- with the long and difficult passage of the Gaa'coigne, the question has been asked "whether in by want of tidings could not be obviated by idie use of carrier pigepns. Some think' it might: 'Mr Joseph .Lugnolj' ope "f the best-known of French breeders, is, however, not of these, and says M. Lugiiol, in the Paris Figaro, ibo proposal to employ pigeons as' despatch bearers was at iirst simply ridiculed. IN'ow these birds are often believed capable of performing radical impossibilities. The maximum light of a, carrier pigeon, without interruption, lasts; under the most favourable conditions of weather, <tc, fourteen or fifteen hours. Swift as tho bird is, it can cover in this time only between six hundred and seven hundred miles. This is not all. The instinct of selfpreservation is as strong in tho'pigeonvoyngcur' as in other travellers, and M. Lugnol. is convinced that in such weather as that encountered by tho Gascoigne not one pigeon in a thousand could be induced to leave tho vessel.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 15 May 1895, Page 3
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171CARRIER PIGEONS. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 125, 15 May 1895, Page 3
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