THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER — AUGUST 23, 1922
STRANGE MONSTER IN AFRICA ♢ English Scientist Tells of Creature Which He Thinks May Have Been Giant Python.
F. C. Cornell, Fellow of the Royal Geographical society, who recently returned to England after spending twenty years in practically unknown parts of South Africa, is author of a story about an unknown monster that had been seen near the Great falls of the Orange river. It has a huge head and a neck ten feet long like a bending tree. It seizes the native cattle and drags them under water. The natives call it “Kyman,” or the Great Thing. Last May Mr. Cornell, accompanied by two white companions, W. H. Brown and N. B. Way of Capetown, and three Hottentots [offensive slang for Khoikhoi people], went to the Junction of the Oub and Orange rivers to see the monster if possible. He writes: “At the cries of the natives I saw something black, huge, and sinuous swimming rapidly against the current in the swirling rapids. The monster kept its enormous body under water, but the neck was plainly visible. The monster may have been a very gigantic python, but if it was it was of an incredible size. This reptile may have lived for hundreds of years. Pythons approaching It in size have been said to have lived that long.”
From— Edgefield Advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.), 23 Aug. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
