The Archive · 1938

Escaped Jaguar for a Shipmate

n experience of 48 hours at sea th an escaped jaguar was described on Dec, 28 by the crew of the freighter Lobes on its arrival in the Mersey, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."

The animal, a full-grown specimen, was put aboard at Callao, Peru, in a large crate addressed to the London Zoo. Four days before its arrival in Liverpool it bit through the wood-k holding the bars of the cage and escaped during the night Search parties failed to find the animal's hiding place, but a fireman awoke to discover it near his bunk,

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