Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-27
CAPTIVE LIZARDS.
Fooled Sailors by Shedding Tails
When Grasped

Time being IS tree as air ard Il good
deal less valuable aboard tho Russian
bark Njord as she lay scr six weeks or
so at the Island of Santa Cruz. off the
north coast of cuba, the crew turned
to hunting lizards in the tidal marshes.
There aasnt anything else 10 Go at
Santa cruz.
The bark brought = cargo of cedar
logs Tor cigar boxes aud the crew have
collection al post card photographs.
snapped by the mate. showing them in
ftll f,ases of dress and undrcsS, aaut!cal
and picturesque
Though the Niord is Russian, the
crew is composed ~ FmEs, ard a nap
py family they are Size is q quaint ola
bark ana n cleJn as a aoael Kitchen
Her spars are as brown and bare as
the trunks of trees in a winter forest
Lizard hunting proved da exciting
sport. SOM OF tne lizards, or ,euanas
were as zig as eroeoGiles. Capt. Rem
vail himself s thc authority for this
On the sue~cettun If the mate tie men
provided themselves with forked sticks
With which tics ninianed. whenever
they could eaten up With shutting
reptile, the iguanas 10 the earth.
After a lizard IS pinioned II viii turn
slightly and bite the hunter. using its
,<nical teeth with the tenacity and
Eusiness-like action cf a steel trap.
This fact n1Gy not be down in the
books OF natural history but the half
naked Firms learned the truth To their
everlasting memory.
After they were made eaptives the
reptiles were carefully dashed length
wise to q pole and lifted into boat,
whence they were transferred 10 The
deck of the Njord, where they were sl-
lowed to crawl free.
At first, when pursued. the reptiles
would drag themselves over the mud
with great rapidlty, working Their
widely separated. crooked legs with
almost incredible speed, but they cohlo
not keep up the gait and We're over
hauled with little patienc" on the
part of the lilhe -limbed Finnish sailors
Skinper RenVall's men thought IL
would be clever idea TO catch the hz-
ards by their tails. but, to their great
CONSERVATION. the quarry quietly sAp-
red off their tails, leaving them III the
bands of their pursuers and making OH
with their peculiar gliding. 'lail-
hopping mation
Not 4 few OF the lizards, after sieush-
;,o off their tails and leaving them III
,ha hands of their puzzled tCflnentpfs'
made good their escape to grow other
t,i,s arainl as good as the oie ones
with which, un6er the circumstances
they lad SO willingly parted. :.
Ahaut fourteen lizards We're bassea
on6 given the liberty of the NJord ;
aacl. rhe Northmen had an IDEA Trey
ao,la bring the specimens with them
~ rorscv {.itN and turn them Eoose TO
a;snort Ia the Morris Canal, OF per
u'spo ..a,,' th.n, IL the New York Aqua
linn, They would have added PIC
turesoue effect te the cafa'' 'o, ~.
isuanas knew n thins or '"o '''' IN
selves. ~ nls,v
,rhev grew to be very tame anu pr
ad oround the deck until the ce''ai
ragan TO come aboard, Wheii '
fo,nd a convenient SanSWaS 'nious'
,be bulwark. When the cook 'ui ~
- eioht bells one mlaale Ma'e"
,.onare coffee all the lsuahiS"e '
;s..inneared back into their pei''Neu
.''s",.,. not leaving even so hue' ."
na,.1al appendage as souN eii'i
,,,a;, bappy visit to the MORA.
80 the crew has the pho,csiap
aaov,inc the exciting incidents OIL sae
hnnt and any one doubling tnis MS, noln hy
nio',s na'',, tale might have seen them e,,ty ps
ciou1 io;,inc the Niord near New YORK ci.y
:, tho cid Morris Canal
,..s,onsia is Americas curse; 10 cod a
eanigestiop, normal welshl, l,5Soclr
stolth stoo,.h and purify the blood, use stores'
nneand nsalad Filters. Sold at all orus N'
price. $l.W.
,.oh;rr. bleeding protruding OF ontrant
~ have Welded to Deans oin."ie"'
rNc at all stores.
no . Who saw they operate easlix, WI 81.
man mi. ss,ininr and without bad ai.el
aa. GU. BE at all drug stores.
hnrn. scald or bruise. ap'
~, nr Thomas Eclectic Oii-tns trc a,
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nn drug stores. ADV.
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