Show I Giant Reptile I 7 hat May Be Found FOUd in the Swamps of Rhodesia Rhodesia h L 1 i tl 4 l' l t N W WJ Wv Y v J I a e 7 x dMa J l ff ra 30 1 r rt 4 r k I I 4 HEP r y i a at t y yN N Sy W 1 Al' Al y y 4 m w Ir v z iw 1 N 1 c r t tN tb D- D F 73 iy 1 I r ix p 9 1 e f r t m 1 r i p AcI t 4 4 I t t 1 i S' S c r 4 f 1 c c iu Xa MOI R iS r REPTILE 8 BELIEVED LIVING IN il 1 tl o. o 1 T rt coo Rn r s In tr a ht book Herr Carl Hagenbeck Hagen Hagen- beck quoted stories told by natives of th the r of Rhodesia of 1 a a huge monster half elephant half dragon dwelling in the depths of the great swamps and suggests that it may may be some kind of a dinosaur seemingly the tho brontosaurus These stories were reproduced in iri tho the South African press and created enormous interest but were rt received coldly by scientists Tho zoologist of the Rhodesia museum treated the statement with derision de- de claring Glaring nothing of the alleged dinosaur dinosaur dinosaur dino- dino could be bo gathered from the na na- tives thes Now however the Chronicle Chronicle Chron Chron- icle idle publishes an extraordinary story from one of its correspondents who de do- d declares clares Glares the zoologist is misinformed when I he says the natives have heard of no no such monster and adds that having investigated investigated investigated in in- the affair he has met two natives both of whom affirm in the most positive manner that they have actually s seen en it Neither of the na nn- tives knew tho the theother other but but both were I shown sketches getches some wholly imaginary and other constructed from Illustrations of prehistoric reptiles and both Loth immediately imme imme- I diatel picked one of the sketches as closely resembling the the monster they had bad seen slen Each Bach however called the attention of the sketcher to the fact that ho lie had omitted to give his picture what from front their description must be bc beheld beheld held to be bo something in ip the nature of flappers rs The Tho giant reptile would seem to pos pos' sess sass the tho head and tail of a crocodile the horns of a rhinoceros the neck of ofa a python and I the he body o of of a hippopotamus mus tt Lt is supposed the creature inhabits inhabits in in- habits a lake between n tho rivers Lunga and The district is indicated with a cross in the above map Tl The e brontosaurus as restored by science is shown above together with the fore and ami hind leg bones onEs onE's as Greeted ted in the American museum The great reptile pictured is drawn from the descriptions given by the natives |