New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-26
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Mammals Sill Inhabit African
Swanlps, He Hears.
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Elephants Look Like Cats and Uni
corns and Dragons Abound, Accord
ing to Native Guides.
If Charles Brooks, explorer, travel
er, scientist and hunter Of johannes
burg, South Africa, is not an apostle
Of the late Baron Munchausen or of
DR.. Lemuel CULVER, ships surgeon
and late captain Of many Ships" the
diplodocus, the pterodactyl and other
prehistoric animals or their descend
ants still may be roaming the earth.
MI. Brooks has written the British
government asking that an expedition
explore the Rhodesian swamps along
the southern borders Of the Sahara
desert, where, he is convinced, ami
mails are yet alive that are the de-
scendants of those now known to nat
uralists only as fossils; also, he says,
a strange tribe Of "copper" colored
people, inhabit the interior of the
desert
Brooks tells of reports regarding
great animals which inhabit the
swamps, which never have been ex-
plored by Europeans and are Stunned
by the natives. The latter, however,
have seen or thought they saw vast
animals beside which the elephant
''looks like small cat"
Natives Tell of Monsters.
"Having seen the picture of the
eighty foot diplodocus now in the Paris
Museum Of Natural History" says
the letter, lit brings back to my mind
many stories heard from natives and
pygmies while hunting on the southern
border of the great Sahara desert re
garding monsters which are still in
existence; also of copper colored race
of people who are living in the interior
of the desert near large lake.
*"The animals were described as be-
ing so large that 1 ridiculed the idea
and put it down to a stretch of the
imagination or desire to induce me
to go in search Of both animals and
people. Since seeing Carl Hagenbeck's
report of what he had heard from the
same source I am convinced that the
monsters described are still in exist
ence, and it has proved an incentive tc
me to renew my acquaintance with the
interior
''The desert may still prove of i'm
menSe value to whichever nation has
sufficient go to get there first andspend
money exploring it. I think Hagen
beck was rather misinformed as tc
the region occupied by the monsters
referred to with the exception of one
as / have been all over northern Rho
desia. Ny own information, with the
enc exception, pointed to the creatures
being inhabitants Of or of the sur,
roUndings of the lakes Of the interior
Of the desert. That the Rhodesian
sWamps exist there is ample proof.
unioorss and Dragons Too.
'@The descriptions 1 received differ
slightly from those given to Hagen
beck, but this may be due to my be.
ing able to speak and understand the
native languages. There is absolutely
no doubt about the bloodthirsty say.
ages, as I have been in contact with
them myself, and the only marvel is
how we ever managed to escape with
our lives.
''Ihe animals described to me are
frat, one like an elephant, but of enor.
NOUS size, the elephant appearing like
& small cat by the side of the other
the second corresponds in every detail
to the pictures one sees in the Bush
mems caves throughout Africa OF the
unicorn and the third what we conceive
the dragon to be like
This latter was in the sWamDs OF
what is now northern Rhodesia or or
the southeastern border Of the Kongo'
Brooks declares he is very anxious
to explore the country and to prove the
truth or otherwise Of the stories which
he has heard and which also have beer
reported by other hunters and explor.
eTs.