The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-13

His words died away into a whisper, and we all stood in motionless amaze ment. Following the tracks, we had left the morass and passed through screen of brushwood and trees. Be yond was an open glade, and in this were five of the most extraordinary creatures that I have ever seen. Crouching down among the bushes. we observed them at our leisure
 There were, as say, i've of them, two being adults and three young ones. In size they were enormous. Even the babies were as big as elephants, while the two large ones were far be- yond all creatures I have ever seen. They had slate colored skin, which was sealed like a lizards and slim mered where the sun shone upon 1t. All hvesswere sitting up, balancing themselves upon their broad, powerful tails and their huge three toed hind feet, while with their small five fin gered front feet they pulled down the branches upon which they browsed. I do not know that can bring their ap- pearance hume to you better than by saying that they looked like monstrous
 kangaroos, twenty feet in length, and
 with skins like black crocodiles.
 We saw the shimmering slaty gleam of their skins between the tree trunks and their heads undulating high above the brushwood. Then they vanished from our sight.
 looked at my comrades. Lord John
 was standing at gaze with his finger on the trigger of his elephant gun, his eager hunters soul shining from his
 fierce eyes. What would he not give for one such head to place between Sl1 telpiece in his snuggery at the Albany! And yet his reason held him in, for all our exploration of the wonders of this unknown land depended upon our presence being concealed from it's in
 habitants. The two professors were
 in silent ecstasy In their excitement
 they had unconsciously seized each
 other by the hand and stood like two little children in the presence of
 marvel, Challenger's cheeks punched
 up into a seraphic smile and Summer lees sardonic face softening for the
 moment into wonder and reverence "Nunc dimittis!" he cried at last. s.What will they say in England of thfs7''
 My dear SummerIee, I will tell you
 with great confidence exactly what they will say in England,'' said Cha1- lenger. They will say that you are an internal liar and a scientific charla- tan, exactly as you and others said of me-
 sIn the face of photographs? ?" Talked, Summerlee! Clumsily fax edr'
 Tn the face Of specimensT' "Ah, there we may have them. Ma lone and his filthy Fleet street crew
 may be ail yelping our praises yet. August the .2Sth-the day we saw five
 live iguanodons in a glade of Maple 1 White Land Put % down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag"
 -And be ready to get the toe end of the editorial boot in return" said Lord John "Things look a bit different i from the latitude of London, young
 felIah my lad There's many a man I who never tells his adventures, for he
 can't hope to be believed Who's to
 blame them? For this will seem a bit of dream to ourselves in month or 1 two. What did you say they were?' teIguanodons,' said Summerlee3 You l will find their footmarks all over the ] Hastings sands in Kent and in Sussex. l The south of England was alive with | them when there was plenty of good l lush green stuff to keep them going. | Conditios:s have changed, and the ] beasts died. Here it seems that the conditions have not changed, and the beasts have nveG."
 eff ever we get out of this alive
 must have a head with me- said Lord John. Lord; how some of that Soma I Hland-Uganda crowd would turn a 1 beautiful pea green if they saw iti I ] don't know what you chaps think, but
 1t strikes me that we are on mighty thin Ice all this time.''
 It was destined that on this very 1 moFning-our first in the new country we were to find out what strange hazards lay around us. It was a loath- i some adventure and one of which I 1 hate to think. If, as Lord John said, l the glade of the iguanodons will re- main with us as a dream, then surely 1 the swamp of the pterodactyls will for 1 ever be our nightmare. Let me set l down exactly what occurred. l We passed very slowly through the woods, partly because Lord Roxton
 acted as scout before he would let us
 advance and partly. because at every second step one or other of our profes- i sors would fall, with a cry of wonder,
 before some flower or insect which pre- sented him with a new type. We may 1 have travelled two CT three miles in all,
 keeping to. the right of the line of the l stream, when we came upon a consid-