THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD — JANUARY 2, 1920
THE BRONTOSAURUS, HAS IT SURVIVED?
The head of the local museum at Port Elizabeth (South Africa) has received information from a Mr. Lepage, who was in charge railway construction in the Belgian Congo, an exciting adventure last October (says the London “Dally News.”)
While Mr. Lepage was hunting he came on an extraordinary monster which charged at him. He fired, but was forced to flee, with the monster in chase. The animal before long gave up the chase, and Mr. Lepage was then able to examine it through his binoculars. It was, he says, about 24ft in length, with a long pointed snout, adorned with tusks like horns, and short horn above the nostrils. The front feet were like those of a horse, and the hind hoofs were cloven. There was a scaly hump on the monster’s shoulder.
The animal later charged through the native village of Fungurume, destroying the huts and killing some of the native dwellers. A hunt was at once organised, but the Government has forbidden the molestation of the animal, on the ground that it is probably a relic of antiquity.
There is a wild, trackless region in the neighborhood, which contains many swamps and marshes, where, says the head of the musuem, it is possible that a few primeval monsters may survive.—Central News.
