The sun., 1897-01-03
A oLoBE-TkoTIISG Doc.
Doasie II. Has Placed 10000 Miles to His
Credit In the Last Three Year.

Credit In the Last Three Years.
Donnie III. is the latest addition TO the rank
and hle OF globc-trotters. In the language OF
the turf writer. he Is 81 rising five." and In this
short space has not only cut his wisdom teeth
but has also left q long winding trail OF 40, 900
miles behind him. Tho details Of his porigri-
nations. which are given In the London Stock
Keeper, entities him to tho claims OF champion
canine globe-trotter of the two hemispheres.
They are rs follows:
Donnie H.. the property of Capt A. II. Mac
Mahon. Ia winner of hrst in novice and third In
limit and open classes at Northampton show.
In hi. short spell OF life he has travelled some
90 900 miles. of which some 10000 have been
by sea, some 5000 on horseback. ard some
$4,000 by rail. II does not often fall TO tho
lot of any dog to have made three Jour-
neys to and from India. to have trav-
ersed the length and breadth of that great
continent aud visited Afghanistan, Be-
loochistan. and Persia, and As he has ac-
com panied his master on his wanderings In
countries where roads do not exist and wheeled
conveyapces are unknown. ho has been obliged
TO acquire the art OF riding on horseback, which
Briton. man woman. He is equally at home
in the saddle. whether his steed walks. trots.
against against his AZ msstsr's ' thigh. and leaning from
timo to time against his masters wRistcoat, ho
Arm a2uso .eat even over j jumps: and 5000 miles on
horseback 10 . fact that speaks Tor itself as TO
"Donnie il. went out to his master In India in
May. 1898. and an old and trusty servant was
sent to meet him At Karachi with strict orders
much as possible from the heat. which WAS very
severe In Sindh. through which he would lave
fS pass Souns, eighty poSnds OF ice in Karsch
and brought Donnie through Sindh literally
packed In lcel By the time the dog arrived In
Beioochistan this drastic treatment had nearly
killed him; however. he soon got all right, and
began his travels again. this time on horseback,
rode ro iSns tour. through zhoS and other
parn OF Beloochistan, 70 simlA from
,E much noaee n n:
Afghan capital; Then. in the spring Of 1924.
Commission. he explored with his master up
the. Gomal Valley e the Afghan fro frontier.
wanderinGs Of that mission In the frontis,
wilds. through extremes OF heat and cold. till
as far q. oSs1sn Hs then trss.sd
bay bay 10 England in the teeth OF the southwest
After only three months Of England Donnie
II. went again to India and Capt. MacMshon
Viceroy. who Was teen touring India, so that
dog traversed tho whole Of the south Of India,
% Caicutts. and visited the chief towns and native
courts Of southern India. No sooner arrived In
Calcutta than of Donnie started again to the
wiids OF the Afghan To assist In the complotion
OF the demnrcation Of the Indo-Afghan boundary
as FAR A. the confines Of Persia, and personally
su perintended tho erection OF and subst-
quenily examined some hundreds OF bounda-
ry pillars and cairns. But the severe
the heavy sand, and the vast quantities OF in
sect and reptile life there left such an unfavor-
able i'm pression on his mind that he prefers to
face his chief abomination-dog shows and
Judges or even tho limited. unstable, and wet
accom- m od alton OF an up-to-date rater IN the
past seasons racing in tho Solent TO reyisitinf
those parts. He hopes to return to india and
to5 osi out OF Jocosa az o 81 and was whelped
Sept is, 1902. His breeder is Mr.. Harry Jones.
and he was sent out to India BY Capt. and
Mira Barry. tho well-known dachshund owners
and breeders"