, 1876-06-18

SaptUns s ear oetorc- That ship never has q
| chance to leave puss on shore now. She Is sail
Ing the seas in high feather to~day.''
4 BIG LIZARD.
Ut Had Case OF .Tlm-Jams.
| -, l0rrz*gondence n<nrxr T<,c&.
! Las As1AAs, June s,-With an issue Of the
tFefs of week or since before me, In which the
usual f1dicule IS made Of the marine monster
Brobdingnagian specimen Of tho species saii to
have been seen comparatively recently Ia the
Indian Ocean, have but to marvel at the ;ncrci-
9ltty OF my. raee. You are not willing to ac-
knowledge the possibility Of the vust caverus OF
the deep containing denzens, which, after all are
not constructed on mnch larger plan than tha
familiar whale, 'shle the vcrv plains that sur.
round your city are the home Of monsters Of by-
gone ages Within short hundred leagues OF
Denver may now be found reptile, compared II
which the famous African serpent that once
kept Romc's lcgions at bay could not hold q
candle. With my own eyes, hardly forty-eisht
hours ago. did behold this terrible creature,
the like Of which could not have conceived to
exist in the heavens above, nor tn the earth be-.
meath, nor In the waters under the earth.
Last evening, Just at dark, was travelling
horseback-Wise along stretch OF country, about
goo miles east Of here, which, for s long
raphies gave this entire region, Of the Greai
American Desert. As tar is tic eye couN
reach, not living thing, or object created by
the hand OF man, could be seen. Tht
solitude was as entire as II cattle on q thon,
sand hills were not grazing within less than *
miles, and Theron horse did not druw his heavy
freight only just beyond the line Of vision. Of
every side the horizon only bounded the view,
and not even where the sky kissed the plain did
SaGsa Sashsa bat the the ssaaty prairie grass already
mering sun, lie itself, dotted here and there by
1nnumerable cacti, from mother earth. And tho
silence. Save the quickly recovering thud OF
my horse's hoots as he loped over the prairie,
was so profound that almost expected to hear
the Kissing OF the sun, which xas On the point
OF setting. Us It quenched it's fire. according to
ancient science, In the Pacific Ocean.
But the silence and the solitude were not for
fire and bivouac for the night, suddenly long
trailin. form started from the earth in the yerY
path OF the setting sun, and queer rumbling
cry was borne to my. ears upon the western
wind. I ut first thought It was the initial train
OF some opposition to the Banana Line Railway,
and tried to distort the noise had heard infa
tho whistle OF q locomotive, but my horsa
taught me better. Hardly had the sound died
upon the air when an intense trembling aeizcd
dtlated eye, he began looking on all sides Us
ii to find a waY OF escape. And now tka
same strange cry Was repeated, and my terri
fled sight perceived that what ] had taken to b
serpent, half quadruped, that was now running,
now creeping along the earth, with incredible
rapidlty. Although my limbs almost refused
to perform their office for terror, uad turned
standing that I knew that the pace the monster
was coming WIS far faster than that OF horse
ut full gallop, but the beast had broken away
from where had tied him, and was quIc9ly de-
yuur1ng the earth with rapid fees. Not, how
ever, away from the coming dange-. Although
destruction stared me in tie face, : almost iost
consciousness ct my peril In viewing :he strange
scene TINT followed. As toon a tha terrible
thing perceived that the horse WIS able to run
at rate that compelled an inconyenient degraa
stopped in hts career and for moment remain
ed silent and motfonless, and tho only sound II
be henru was that made by the retreating horse,
which was growing fainter and fainter. Imme.
diate1y+ ere it had become quite lost to the ear,
the cause Of the brute's flight began to utter
sonorous roaring that one moment sounded like
some british mother calling her young, and an
other weird imitation Of the cooling of dove.
Hardly had the sound been uttered when the
horse, which was now almost lost to sight in tha
RAPIDLY growing darkness, stopped. Presently
he turned around and began with hasteuinn
steps to return. The noise still continued, aud
eTen to my human hearing seemed to have q
pleading, inviting note in II. The BrodIngnagfan
beast, TOO, had assumed the shape at onsa 81
cat ready to play With her kittens, and OF a ser
pent when trying to charm It's prey into its folds
And now let mo detcrfbe the monster, more
terrible than which never creature lived sInco
hose long past periods, when all Of nature's
minated formations were equally great and
:rotesaue, huge and horrible Like other sau-
ians, 1t had the body Of lizard, upllfted on, aa
.car Us I could Judge, eight feet but its propel-
ing power, as already noted, seemed to exist
hieay in Its tail. which streamed behind the
'ody at least 100 feet. The trunk Of the NOR.
tor must have been 30 feet long BY about half
hat figure in width, and ut least from 20 10
eet through. The feet seemed little m.re than
adde's with which to push tbs huge
ody along, and apparently had little
Importing power, the creatures belly touch
1s the ground, except When It's rapl.t mo-
lon forced it forward in the air: And the head:
t seemed as largo as an ordinary omnibus,
naegGnte H. If 'athead ndan and
frh % 70 over the body on q neck greater in
;ameter than barrel, and fully IL feet in
ngtb. The eyes, which, like those Of the dog
Hans Christian Andersen's story, were al
rye as saucers, and appeared 1arger than mill