Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-04
BEASTS NOT YET CAUGHT.
Fries That Shown,en Would Paw Biz
Sums For

On, there ere a good many animals
mat are Sill to be caught and exhibite1
III the moEagories." said the old animal
man, reaching into the cage III
scratching the head Of 4 iaguar. Il
can run of quite list without stopp;n.;
to think.
| All the ZOOS are eager row for an
oHapi. That's the strange prehistoric
beast that Sir Henry Johnston fol.nl
! alive in eastern Africa.
/ IL 4 cross between giraffe and 4
! hnrse, apparently, and mighty big
animal. There'll be big money for the
, circus that gets the first specimen, and
there are some plucky and smart men in
| Uganda at this very moment looking
for :he brute.
Nobody has been lucky enough or
smart enough to catch a Kadiaii bear
awe ara carry him to civilization.
lheres something like 4 beast for You
Dig as a calf so that he'd make n
roaring Rocky mountain grizzly look
like Il little brown bear ALONGSIDE OF
| him.
DoWn in South America, somewhere
p@hind the northeastern side Of the
Andes little north of the equator. is Il
beast that is the biggest rodent in the
"ori4. travellers have seen pieces of
us nice ara Its bones, and Il few have
s:llillpsed 1t as it sped through the dark
rrineEal forests.
1T is true rodent like the rat, but
1t IS as big as a Newfoundland dog
1iat would be Il good catch for n
geological garden.
Another fine prize is down there in
South America. It is a new species O..
Jaguar, quite different from any that
has ever been exhibited in the shows
in any part of the world It's a big,
black fellow, and tremendously fierce.
Nobody has ever taken one alive.
Then in the forests of The Amazon
are two birds that would make their
captOr a famous man among biologists.
They are the bell BIRD. which has a
voice exactly like 4 clear-ringing bell,
and the lost SOUL" which has a cry
that makes the shivers creep along a
mans backbone when he hears it in
those dark, mysterious, silent, forbid
ding woods.
In Burmah somewhere is a
rhinoceros that has Il black hide and J X
tufted ears. The hide has been seen by
haven't ever seen a living animal.
Up III the IiimalayaS a man has
been looking for years for-what do
you suppose? A unicorn. He may he
crazy-he may be right.
He says that he has heard so many |
tales from the native hunters up there |
Of the existence of Il one-horncd ante /.
lope-horse that he is bound to try and |
\,
thing myself, but then l didn't take |
much stock in the discovery Of a prim |
tive wild horse in central Asia, either, |
and now the geological gardens Of |
Hamburg and New York have living |
specimens of these horscS-fuany, big |
headed little bruteS that are represent |
tatives of some type of horse that must |
be hundreds of thousands of years old. |
Down in New Zealand, compares |
lively small as the land is, there are
many animal and bird mysteries still |
They say that there is Il brand new |
that is, new to the world-typc of ami |
nal on the order Of the duck bill down |
there yet. Darwin always thought that
some day a veritable lizardbird mot a
flying lizard, but true missing link |
between the birds and the reptilcs) |
might be found there.
zone explorer followed mysterious |
footprints in the snow of high noun
tainS of New Zealand, but never came |
up with the beast that had made them; |
but they We're such strange footprints |
that other scientists agreed with him |
that the thing that made them was puie |
unknown to the world and must be Il
wonderful being.