Percentage of Equine Mortality at Sea. 13 



danger that animals proceeding from Europe 

 and North America have to encounter. 



2. Horses embarked at Fiume escape the 

 perils of the Bay of Biscay and Portuguese 

 coast, to which those leaving Great Britain and 

 Ireland are subjected. 



3. The length of the voyage from Buenos 

 Ayres to Cape Town is only about half that 

 from England. 



4. Usually the weather is finer on voyages 

 from Buenos Ayres and Australia to South 

 Africa than from England and North America 

 (New Orleans and Montreal). 



