The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-25
STR.ANH SOUNDS.
Guns OF C'JR3iSAUl AND OTHER
MYSTir"1tsG PHENOMENA.

EARN siats scared Many.
OF strange sounds which probably d,
pend on meteorological or other naeur
long been known as 1.-The guns of EuI
rls;iul-" but though its causes have To-
been debated no accurate e%xplanatia
has been given. so far as we are awa,.
that is thoroughly satisfactory. Til
Snnderbunds-as the delta of the Gange
in native dialect is c"lled-is covere
with a vast and luxuriant jungle Q
marshy vegetation. One of the station
is named Bnrrisaul. From here. in tn
rainy season. have long been heard my.
FERROUS sounds resembling the discharg
Of artillery. and therefore popularl,
named 1.-The guns Of Burrisaul."
Only heard in the rainy season an,
from the southwark, they have beef
heard 100 miles off, yet on the coast it
self they appear still farther south. Til,
sounds resemble the booming Of cannon
Mussulman and Hindoo superstition.
have each associated the sounds will
their religious traditions. Others have
thought the sounds were produced by the
breaking Of the sea on an island in the
bay OF Bengal. But where? That some
atmospheric OF meteorological cause il
the explanation is all that can be said
after hearing all arguments.
A much humber yet ancient instance
of great local interest used to exist. we
believe. at Baddeley. in the New forest.
in the shape of a g~roaning tree. Whether
it still lives and groans we are uncer.
tain. but it is said to have uttered mys-
FERROUS and lugubrious sounds at certain
times, probably dependent on wind or
weather. but full of omen and import to
past generations. Indeed in the various
mysteries which. despite fin de siecie
acuteness, still surround us, eerie noises
have always played a most conspicuous
part, whether out of doors or within
ancient houses. Instances of the latter.
indeed. abound. Some of the most thrill
ing of inexplicable ghost stories turn
not on anything which has appalled, the
eyes. but has distilled horror through
the ears. 1t is. we believe. in East An
glia that the shrieks heard from time TO
time round certain pits have long peel.
a tradition in which a female phantom
part.
The drummer of Tedworth's' plan
tom sounds are SO well known FROM
Aubrey and more modern DISORDERS lis
only to need allnsion, but we NAV here
say that, according to IA communication
in a popular periodical some few years
back, similar sounds had recently. ON
p~aratively speaking, been heard in the
locality, and by people of most practical
These may be called phGn
tom sounds. Returning again to those
which hover on the border line between
The natural and inexplicable, there is ti...
wild strain as of weird music which has
been heard aboard ships when ge....i.
the circle of a mozambique CIV. |
lone.
One of the same kind. formerly mvs-
erious and thrilling enough, has been
esolved into Il natural one. Early tray.
'lers through the primeval forests OF
3razil-still among the few unexplore,'
of the ~globe-were astonished and
to hear the distant resonant sound
i a bell pealing from the depths Of tire !
which certainly had no building
nd for ages had known no human foot.
tep. Many a legend was woven rou..a
he strange sound. Ultimately it was
iscovered to be the note of the bell bird.
There are, however, few mysterious
ounds winch have been as satisfactorily
Explained as this. For instance, there is
legend of the sounds heard at times
n the plains of Marathon. the clash of
'eapons, h snorting of horses, the
shouting OF the slayers and screechiny
! the slain" which recall to memoir
famous battle that lives SO much
lore wildly than many modern ones in
lie history Of the world. OF course
lere are many instances of sounds
hich. at first mysterious, become SO re.
ly from the distance over which they
but these must be distinguished
those which are our theme.
One OF the most interesting examples
sts on the authority Of the late Sir Ed
und Head, who remembered when a
y gong to church on the famous
Waterloo Sunday" June IS. 1915. at
ythe. in Kent. His father and he, on
irving at the church at IL a. m, found
their surprise the congregation out
lie listening intently to the faint sound
OF distant n n coming from the
st. Afterward it was ascertained that
apoleon having, on the for him un
rtunate advice Of his artillery officers.
no pleaded the state of the ground,
till II to commence his fire, the
st French gun was fred as the Nivelles
urch clock struck II. Nor was Hythe
= only place where the French cannon
re heard i'll England.
however. is fact dependent Oh
by no means remarkable axiom that
under certain conditions travels
distances. But the sounds of
ich we speak for the most part have
all who have attempted to ex-
in them and lie indeed in that vague
,ion which is inexplicsble. Suchis the
md of the "Airlie drum" such are the
ling Of the banshee in some parts of
land.-New York Post.