The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-30
4 MAN WITH a TAN.
He Regrets That Tails in Wis Tribe
Are becoming Very Rare.

He Regrets That Tails in His Tribe
Are becoming Very Rare.
From the New York sun.
man with a tail is one of the latest dis
coveries reported by an explorer. Mr.. Paul
Enjoy. an official of france in French
Cochin China. has had the felicity Of maxi
ing this addition to knowledge. lie met the
gentleman with the caudal appendage
among the wild Moi who live in the north
of French Cochin China, and his discov-
cry is reported in the Bulletin Of the Paris
Geographical society.
Mr. d Enjoy entered the country of these
wild people in the spring of 1890 and the
first village he saw in the unbroken forest
greatly surprised him. There was only one
habitation, and it was in the form of tun-
mel 100 feet long, made of sticks meeting
at the top like the sides of the letter A.
and covered with leaves. The tunnel was "a
little more than three feet high, six or
seven feet wide al the base OF the triau-
gle, and was open at each end.
Some children who were playing outside
raised a howl as they saw the white man
and his party, and at once some wild look
ing creatures rushed out of the tunnel and
scdmpereu away INTO the woods ike so
many monkeys. The explorer suggests
that these Moi tribes are very likely the
monkeys whose battles with the gods are
described in the sacred books of India.
one man was up in "a tree engaged in
gathering honey. He was greatly alarmed
by the flight of his companions, and down
he came as fast as he could. stepping on
bits of wood that had been driven into the
tree, till he was fifteen feet from the
ground, when he sprang down and tried,
with lowered head, TO break through the
circle Of men who had surrounded the tree
but he was captured
After "a while he was induced TO talk. He
was tail, wel-made fellow, with Vigor-
GUS limbs. and looked Ikea bronze stat
ne. His ankle bones We're enormous, ike
those of his friends. and, wonderful to re-
late, he had tat Here Is a faithful trans
lation of what Mr.. Enjoy says about it.
This discovery Stupened me. i ap-
preached him, and 10 be certain that +
was not the plaything of an illusion 1
felt with my hand bis caudal appendage.
/ satisfied myself in this way that the
vertebral column of the Moi was pro-
longed beyond the body by three or four
thai Of a fawn.'fS ~ ~
When the white visitor spoke to the
prisoner about his tail, its fortunate pos
SCISSOR drew a long sigh as he remarked
that once all the Mois had tails, The
tail, he said, was a mark of the pure race
and it was becoming rarer with every
generation There was a time when a
Moi king had a tail that was three GU
bits in length, but he had been driven
from the rich plains Of his fathers, and
in the later degenerate ages, tails had
been gradually disappearing.
Here was a curiosity that the civilized
world is longing to see There is no tell
ing what light this man and his caudal
appendage might have thrown upon the
theory of evolution if he had been taken
to Europe. Apparently it is not the fault
of Mr.. d. Enjoy that the native is not now
delighting the savants of the old world.
AT any rate, he put a guard over the
man that night, but in the morning the
prisoner had disappeared, and his guard
was delrious with fever. In an evil mo-
ment the guard had been induced to drink
the juice of a Llama, and he was bereft
of his faculties and his prisoner at the
same time. There are evidently prizes
in the wilderness of the Mois that Will