'The Voyage' recounts the story of how members of Ching’s imaginary menagerie set out on a quest to find their own Eldorado, an Elysian land across the sea. The images deal with two aspects; the journey and the hazards it entailed, and the arrival. The voyage itself was by no means all plain sailing, as dramatically illustrated in the painting Shipwreck! by a rabbit and fellow avian passengers being cast from their upended vessel. In 'The Dispute', a pair of warthogs in a rowboat observe an argument between seabirds, while there is confusion in 'Who’s Got the Longitude?' between the on-board monkeys and a parrot. As always there is a strong New Zealand connection; in the rowboat in 'Delegation from New Zealand' a kiwi is perched on the back of a Corriedale, a local sheep breed favoured for its production of both wool and meat.
