MISTAKEN JOURNEY
Through South America for 3d a Week [F you were not living in the best country in the world, where would you go to find it? Yesterday perhaps to the United States. To-day to Canada. To-morrow? Well, it depends on your needs, your aims, your moods; but many would say South America. More than any other part of the world at the present time it offers the kind of opportunities most of us want in a setting in which all of us could feel at home; mountains, forests, rivers, plains, winds and waving tussocks, sheep, cattle, horses, and barking dogs. But to-day we can’t go there. We are not free to leave our own country, and we would not be admitted if we arrived without authority in Rio or Montevideo or Buenos Aires. The most we can do is travel vicariously, and the opportunity to do that will be presented to all our readers after the New Year. It will be an opportunity to do more than that. It will be a chance to travel adventurously. Week by week till they get arrested as spies-it actually happens-our readers will go further and further into the interior, by rail, by steamboat, by horse, by cance, and then wake up one day to find themselves swapping horses, and-yarns, and experiences with the cattle ranchers and Indians of the Matto Grosso-a vast swamp in the very heart of the continent where the water and the land fight for possession year in and year out, and you are likely to surprise an alligator if you splash across country on a*horse, or a 15-foot water snake if you pole your way through by canoe. This journey, and this series of adventures, will cost you 3d a week; and every adventure is true. The journey took place as it is described, though it it was a mistaken journey from the first land-mile. Something else Had been planned, but this is what happened. We have read the manuscript: we have talked to the author-and you, if you are interested in cricket, have seen him in gloves and pads. He is Roy Sheffield, wicket-keeper and first man in for Essex, and to-day a member of the staff of Wellington College. Watch this page for a further announcement, PPPPBP LPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PP PP LPP PLP RP PLP PIP PL EPL LP,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 7
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397MISTAKEN JOURNEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 7
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