Horses

From Panama came news last week of one Aime H. L. Tschiffley, 30-odd, blue-eyed, redhaired, freckled, tanned, who had arrived at Colon from Buenos Aires, whence he departed Apr. 23, 1925, with two gelding criollos (horses) of the Patagonian pampas, one of which he was trying to ride from the Argentine to New York. The second horse carried a pack. They had crossed salt deserts, the high Andes, skirted Lake Titicaca, plunged through Ecuadorian jungles (where Mr. Tschiffley, whom the South American press had dubbed "Don Quixote de la Mancha," had to blanket the animals heavily to save them from vampire bats). He proposed passing through Texas, Kentucky, the Chicago stockyards, before exhibiting himself on Broadway. His purpose: to demonstrate the endurance of criollos, to promote an inter-continental rodeo between U. S. cowboys and Patagonian gauchos.