Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-08-19
No. 26.

favorite noliun. From the testimo-
ny of Capt. Turner. it may the in
/ ferred that this notion is current in
Thibct: for the Raiah.. .Dssb, tho
sovereign Of Boston. related, that ia
the range of mountains eastward Of
his country, towards Assam, there
was a race Gf lnsn with shnrt tails,
50 rigid and iuflexible, that bcfora
they can sit down on the ground.
they are obliged to make hole to
receive the sacral -apwhdagc.
The accounts 0f tile earlier voya-
Egcrs represented the natives of the
Nicobar Islands as furnished by ma
turc with q superiluous member of
this kind. Koping. Swedc. who
was lieutenant Of a Dutch ship, as
serts this to be the fact, and that
not from the appearance Of a single
individual /, for her assures us that
when at Nicobar, he was surround
cd by great Concourse Of people
with tails, who endeavored to gts on
board tic ship, but tile crew alarm
cd at tho mo, cinents Of these mons.
tcrs, fred their guns, which scared
their disagrccatle guests.
Barcdezwila, a German!treveller,
in the sixth chapter of his voyages,
gives tho following account Of a girl,
whom he met with in the MoIuccas.
-" While I was in the Moluccas
l saw a female slave, of the race Of
ihc Paw'as, who had tail like 4
stays, and when any one teaz-
ed her, which was often the case, she
exhibited il. This slave was of the
race of oriental blacks, Of whom
there arc many in the interior of tho
MoIuccas."
None ofthe eastern islands are SO
notorious for people with tails, as
Formossa. :, Hesse. likewise a Ger
man, who went to Sumatra, in 1850,
saw a female who was provided with
tail like brute beast. Strauss. a
D0tchmas, is tie third eye witness.
and he gives a too circumstantiaI ac-
count Of one of the tailed Earmos-
ans,to leave any remaining doubt up-
on the subject. He saw a man with
a tail one foot in length. This crea-
turc was taken for mu rdering a clcr-
gyman, fastened to a stake by long
chain around his body, around which
a fire was kindled |; the wrctched
creature was SO broiled, that tho fat
oozcd from his body long before his
death. His shape perfectly astonis,-
cd every person present I; and par
ticularIy so, when he informed them
that the men in his country were
all tailed like himself.
Mindcro aud GcmeIli Carreri.botil
saw a similar sight in the Phillip
ihcs. Such persons are also said to
exist in the interior Of Borneo. a
surgeon, who lad returned from tho
East Indies, assured DR.. Heryey,
who knew him to be man of strict
yeracity, that he had himself seen
a girl who had tail a span long
Bath, FaIk, and Rytschow. rclntO
that kuirGli,. or tailed people, arc al
ways found IN rarkestan.
1t seems 6y no means improbable
that such IA freak Of nature, furnish
ed the ancients with the first notion
of satyrs, especially If as we are
told, monsters Of this kind exist in
those parts Of Asia. situate muclI
nearer to them than the Indian ISL
ands.
A man much. intoxicated, passing
up Walnut street a few days since.
Ccll, and was badly hurt by tho fall.
Hickuping, ho said TO those who
were near him" &" had hard fall Of
it," A witty son Of Erin, who was ?
present, replied. I" Sure the fait Was
easy enough, but I'm thinking Hon.
ey il was d--d hard ighting."
One capital error, says Bishoy'
Burnct, In mems preparing the'.n-