| Show Race of Monkey-Men Monkey With Tails Found To Inhabit a Wild District in Papua I Is man descended from monkeys Scientists say yes yea but have still UIl to prove it iL They are still searching for the missing link They are looking for it among old bones bonel says say a writer in Pearsons Pearson's London Weekly But all aU the time it may be that the missing link is alive and kick ing hie In fact the missing link may not be an old bone but a live monkey man and monkey and not merely one but a whole tribe of them A race of f men men with tails is re re- reported reported reported ported to inhabit a wild district in Papua and evidence of their exist existence ence has been given by a native from the Fly River area according to the annual report of the lieu lieu- I tenant governor tenant governor of Papua Sir Hu Hu- Hubert Hubert bert Murray The native was emphatic that tailed men were to be found some some- somewhere somewhere where to the east of the Kemp Welch He was pressed to give more details and said he was con con- confident confident that at least one of these per persons sons had a tail tall When asked why he be was Will so 10 positive he replied Be De Because Because cause I ate him Several years yean ago Sir Hubert Murray recalls he met a much much- traveled man who claimed to have ve met a tribe of tailed men along the Fly river They lived in ill houses raised on piles andin and in the floors floora of the dwell dwellings ings ing holes were cut for each person through which his hi tall taU hung when he be sat at or lay down On one occasion this man said he crept along atone the house gently tied a knot in each tall tail and then theD raised the alarm that a hostile force was approaching The tailed men sprang to their feet but the knots caught in the holes and they were flung to the ground It was the man added a joke joka that could only be played once |
