Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-23
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planned by the meeting of two differently
tempered currents-hang low over the I'M
canny scene
No native fishes in the Bay of Along in
these mists Tales are told of Chinese
junks tn;@t, entering the bay at one side,
never came out the other.
The dragon took Them is the all-sufi-
c1ent explanation of the native.
Laughed at It ALL
The French in their possessions on this
coast have always laughed down the tale
of the dragon. But suppose that in the
same bay, at three different periods, in
1872, In 1897 and now again in 1904, the
officers and crews of three French war
ships declare they have seen such fabulous
creatures?
This is what happened to the crew of the
Avalanche, who saw two monsters "undu-
lating in the vertical sense" with necks
that stuck out of the water las high as the
second story of house. Admiral de la
Bedol1ere, In the Bayard, saw monstrous
BODY as big as steam tug" with scaly
tall some fifty feet long. He does not in
sist on the length of the neck
There are discrepancies In the three DIFF
ferent accounts, made years apart by diff
ferent sets of persons, particularly in the
snake-like length of the things neck. For
this reason NJ. Edmond Perrier, director of
the ancient and famous Museum of Natural
History at the Jardin des Plantes is not
sure what to call it.
The longest-necked of classified prehis-
toric monsters is the Plesiosarus
But the Plesioarus had no feet.
1t could not leave gigantic human-like
foot or hand prints on the sands of the
Bay of Along.
1t could not waddle up inshore by night
trample growing crops, destroy farm build
ings, slaughter and carry off pigs and
cattle.
Here come to a whole series of native
Annamite tales, up until recently laughed
at as superstitious or else interested inven-
tons by the French who dwell among them
Dragon Did It.
1.-The dragon did it, is kind of stock ex-
cuse among the natives. If pig-boy lose
or sell-half of his herd, lie will say that
the dragon did it. If the cattle of a native
farmer get into the plantation of Euro
pean by night, it is the dragon that has
tramped down the crop. The dragon is on
the Annamite flag, as it Is on that of the
Chinese.
Herewith are presented the replica of
some footprints on the, shore of the Bay of
Along, They are five times as big as the
footprints of any elephant. And they look
more like hand prints than foot prints.
They were photographed two years ago
by an unprecedented and curious Frenchman
at the time when a dragon story occupied
the French court Of Hai-Phong.
Here are the facts Hong-Hai, on the
shore of the bay, is an important port on
account of nearby coal mines which have
Deen lOr some l1lIe uOlilS Il DlS DuSllltSS
Hong-Hai grew rapidly, and there was nat
urally a lot of building.
His Busy Day.
Among the builders was a Frenchman
named Vasseur, and 1t was he who built
the first European apartment houses. He
built two of them six stories and a man.
sard, each on a corner opposite the port,
on the very shore of the bay.
On the evening of September l, 1901, the
ftr-, five tT1rar Ct anY,,-
pletely finished.
On the morning of September II both
. We're n ruins.
They had fallen inward in masses of
brick mortar, iron and wood
Vasseur, the builder, brought a suit In
the French court at ai-Phong against
the native contractor for furnishing bad
material and negligent work. And now
comes the queer part.
The contractor pleaded in court:
THE dragon pushed the houses down.
And the extraordinary thing was that
he could bring up twenty native witnesses
to the fact that the dragon coming
What is the dragon lke?" asked the
judge. -, -, ,.u =
like, answered the witnesses. Look at
the flag"
''on the flag he has legs Has the dragon
:egss?'
"a long tal like a serpent?"
"a long neck?'
YES"
He must be big, to push house in?"
said the judge. And here the natives
stood mute. The story laughed out
of court by the superior Europeans, and
the native contractor was cast in dam
ages.
But the European who photogra phed the
mysterious footprints on the sand has al
ways said. What creature made those foot
prints? The insinuation that they were
made by the native contractor to back up
his story is not satisfying.
Were the tracks made by an Iguanodon?
The Igaunodon has arms and legs and
can walk upright like a man. Or are
there both Plesiosauruses and Iguanodons
in the internal Bay of Along? Native
tales tell of outrageous battles between
dragons on that coast by night
That there is something in it is acknowl-
edged by the pundits of the French Acad
envy. The French navy is discussing plans
for investigation. One of these days short
ly you will see expedition going out to
capture one of the sea-serpents of the Bay
of Along, Iguanodon. Zanglodon, Ichthyo-
saurus, Plesiorarus, Mesoraurus.
STERLING HELLO.
Prepared.