WOMEN IN WILDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20109, 30 March 1928, Page 11

WOMEN IN WILDS

FOUR YEAR’S TOUR UNARMED AMONG ANIMALS Miss Gertrude Benham, a woman of 60, on her arrival at Plymouth from Tiinidad, in the West Indies, describing to a reporter her solitary world wanderings 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 ever 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 in Africa which she crossed from west to east, never alarmed her. In her four years’ tour just completed she visited she said, Arabia, Bagdad, Syria, Palestine, Tibet, the Himalayas, French Indio-China and Japan. She crossed the Pacific to America and visited Gautemala, British. Honduras and the West Indies.