WORLD ACHIEVEMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 265, 9 October 1939, Page 2

WORLD ACHIEVEMENT

A FAMOUS RIDE. Tschiffcly’s Ride 1 The title of a famous book about a famous adventure was on the tip of everyone’s tongue about eight years ago, and the story of the amazing man and his two amazing horses should be numbered among the great achievements of modern times. The age of adventure and daring is not yet done, for there is still among us the man who harnessed two Patagonian ' steeds, Mancha and Gato, and rode 10,001 miles from Buenos Aires in South America to Washington. They crossed the rolling South American pampas, travelling in sunshine They scaled the Bolivian Andes, struggled through Peruvian sands, crossed bridges of swinging rope and planks, and swam crocodile infested rivers. The dauntless three shivered among the snows of the .high mountains, and sweltered in Atacama and Panama, j Often they had not enough to eat or drink. Almost every kind of insect assailed them—-not to speak of vampire bats. But still they went on. When speaking of his adventure Tschiffely made light of all the troubles and setbacks they had experienced. He thought more of lvs two wonderful companions thn.n be did of himself, and made plav with their distaste for the hard roads and crowded cities of the United States when they exchanged the wilds for civilisation. How glad they were when, escaping from the narrow canyons of Now York’s skyscrapers, they wero hoisted in big wooderl boxes and sailed for Buenos Aires again!—(L.)