| Show SEA ELEPHANTS REAL E Explorers Found On Ono One Th That t Was 21 Feet Long tong t f f. f t Three Herds of These Animals DIsprove Disprove Dis Dle prove Theory That They Were Extinct Many Extinct Many Specimens Have Been Found Los Angeles Cal The The recent American Museum of I Natural His History History tory expedition to Lower California aboard the U. U S S. S S S. Albatross was the most fruitful and interesting scientific scientific trip ever made mado in the southwest and its Us discoveries are of Inestimable value according to P P. I I. I Osburn of Pasadena who acted as guide for the party The cruise covered d practically all the Islands in the Gulf Gult of Cali Call California fornia Cornia f By far Car the most important find was made In a large hidden cove on Guadalupe Island where the scientists came upon three b herds herds' ds' ds of sea elEphants elephants elephants ele ele- ele about the present existence of which there has been serious doubt many believing them to be ex The first prat sea elephant seen was a I gigantic bull lying prone on on- the sand I I under a t towering cliff curro As soon as he be I sighted the explorers he made for forthe forthe 1 the water but before he reached the edge he be was shot by one of or the naturalists naturalists nat nat- in the boat it being impossible ble to take him a alive e. e This animal was the largest seen and measured about 21 feet In length The weight was enormous The party managed to round up five live young sea elephants and these were taken aboard They did die not show the well-developed well elephant elephant- like snout or trunk of of th the tho adults and resembled the California sea lion lion They all showed fight figh t and wall wallowed wed about the deck unceasingly Their call hard to describe Is a concert ot of sharp cries and The largest herd of these w water ter e elt comprise about fifty of al all all ages and sizes and they were were lying hl high h on the beach They were were so sluggish sluggish and inactive that the nat nat- i J Ic l k Ir IrI I rr Jc j t Herd of Sea Elephants walked among them an ane and e photographs and anti sketches The Ing ting bulls let out out holl hollow w roars h like the terrifying ing ones of o od d lions At times Umes they emitted t 1 their mouths small clouds o of e vapor vapor and rolled their large larg large larget t e eyes es The eyes eres of the bullamore bulls bulla more than three inches In r. r I At Island Osburn shot sho shota a black hare bare found nowhere else In Inthe inthe in the world except on another Island near by These hares harbs coal black lack on top Inhabit the sea caves and the rocks of the cliffs and mesas Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- of Immense Immens lizards rare birds fishes never before seen and an unclassified unclassified un un- un classified deer were taken |
