An article in the NYT today caught my eye. There are 100,000 wild camels in Australia, the descendants of animals imported to help build railroads. In the 1950s U.S. Lines operated a freight service to Australia. It was a three month round trip and we carried various types of exotic birds and animals. On one homebound voyage we carried several camels on a bed of sand in the lower hold. The passage from south to north carried thru various latitudes and via the Panama Canal to New York. Upon arrival at the Hudson River Pier we had to put a cleaning gang in that hold - probably at distressed wages. Nothing fazed our livestock manager.
tjs
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