A ZOO AT SEA
There were exciting times at sea duriug the voyage of the City of Rayville, an American ship which has been taking a cargo of live animals to the United States. Soon after leaving Calcutta a score of monkeys broke loose, scampering all over the ship. The crew gave chase, one of the sailors climbing the rigging in his effort to catch one of them. The monkey chattered at him from the mast, but when the sailor was within a few inches of him it took a flying leap into the ocean, and was lost. It may have been rather jolly chasing monkeys, but it was terrible going in search of a python. For 16 days three men searched high and low for it. They ke]rt their secret for fear of causing panic, and glad they must have been when, with the help of an electric heater, they were abl.e to lure the python back into its cage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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161A ZOO AT SEA New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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