The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-07-30


| k7NS ported existence has been disturbing
UNAIA the scientific world more or less
XHNdn since 1903. II r. supposed 60 be some
SSllk7M sort OF dlnosaur. tnnsmuch as the
9CAV dlnosaur Is hfty.foot lizard That
dates back 20 the age OF Reptiles"
which antedntes man on this earth by anywhere
from 90 60 COO millions OF years, The scientists
naturally saying with the country boy nj the cir
Gus NJ sight Of his first hlppopotamus. Gosh there
amt no sich nnimlle"
stu there was such an animal once And
people are saying they have seen such nm animal
now. Hence Captain stevens expedition to
Africa.
The earlier reports have been corrobornted by
two Belgian blggnme huntcrs who report sighting
huge beast Of terrifying proportions and at.
tributes. Mr.. Gnpee. one OF the BeRians. snyH
his party cuught a glimpse of huge beast rcndng
his way through the Jungle vcrdure. which dehed
geological analogy. He says u was In the general
shape Of n lizard. probably fifty feet long. with
u thick tail like kangnroos hump on IT, back.
and terrifying horn IT, snout Tho monster
was covered with scales, which were colorcd with
great blood.rcd spots from which radlatcd pale
green stripes
well.known English naturalist and collector
has written 10 the press that there IL every reason
70 believe there IL such m animal living In the
heart of the unexporcd junRles n not great mum
bcrs 81 them During his stay In Afrcn he heard
the story from 20 many different sources, he says
that he IL convinced there Il some truth In Il.
Fifteen years ngo. when collecting In the
TranAyaAl. heard an interesting story 81 mon
ster, half snake, half beast. Ny Informant, Of the
Rhodeslnn police, who patrolled near Bnrotselnnd,
said he had approached within a hundred yards
OF u while II was lying asleep the border OF n
swamp. Il was. he declared. n hundred feet long
and ita strange Appearance 10 frightened him that
II awakened and gded into the swamp before no
could raise his gun II travelled nolaelesaly and
with great speed.
''rhc country round about was quite uncx.
plored. My friend told me that I was the nrst
70 whom he had mentioned the story. MS he was
afraid 20 tell his comrades because they would
have laughed At him.
"oncc again when was on the French Kongo
seaboard heard fearful stories from the native
hunters OF the monster. ! also heard the same
stories IN the way 20 the Belgian Kongo. where
the present so-called brontosaurus IL supposed 10
have been seen when you hear stories from three
or four widely different sources believe there In
some truth In them. You must remember that n
you travel 20 Fenan Faz and Settle Cana and 10
up into the Interior most Of the country has never
been explored. What creatures live In It's vast
mysteries we do not know. Whether the so.calied
brontosnurus II n prehistoric survival or not
would not care 20 say. firmly believe the crea-
ture exists, but believe Il n unknown creature
OF more modern descent.
'rhe brontosaurus or whatever the strange
creature Is, makes use OF It's legs and It's body
II glides should imagine II n very dangerous
creature. But that n n not all a fairy-tnIe nm
certain have been there and have talked with
natives who win not pass n certain boundary into
an 'eyil land because OF the huge monsters which
live IN It's remote sOlltudes."
Walter winans, an American living In Lon.
don. Lhe pistol champion and blg-game hunter
also believes In the existence u this creature
''The late Carl Hagenbeck told me before the
war" Mr.. Winans said, that two OF his travellers,
on different expeditions and In different years
had seen the brontOsaurus In swamps I'm central
Africa do not think Il Il impossible that some
OF the prehistoric animals have survived and when
several explorers have seen gllmpses OF what they
think must be such animals they are most prob-
ably right II Is not as II some one not used 10
recognizing them instantly saw wild animals for
the first time, These men are always on the
lookout for new species and know all the animals
by sight
ut is possible that the ssa.serpent is one OF
these so-caled extinct reptiles and that the dodo
may still exist somewhere not yet explored The
quagga too which existed until q few years ago
may sti live In some unexplored part OF Africa
and the mammoth and the cave bear sim wander
IN Siberia"
Mr. winans went further TO satisfy the Eng.
fish public and drew an outline Of what this ami.
NAL probably looks like With that picture which
appeared in the Evening News, he appended this
bit OF descriptive argument;
1.-THE scientists draw this beast standing an ,ts
legs as mammal would. Now no mammalian
animal has the combined heavy tail and long meet
this animal has, A kangaroo has the heavy taI
but II is built very light In front, with only sbort
rudimentary legs. II uses its tail as a third leg
I'm combination with its two hind legs and works
ON a tripod so formed The giraffe has a long
neck but II is built Hight behind and its tail is
30 light that II practically has no weight IN com.
parson The giraffe carries it's head high so
as not 20 put leverage on IT,
"NOw the brontosaurus Is heavy both In the
tail and the neck, which, besides, are both very
long II II stood as the scientists draw IT, the tail
and neck would oyerbalaROs RAa a slight pun