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Show FACE FOUR. THE SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1925. - t s ;ipiiIS :;0TA B0; ftf 7i WAT to tit south la Patagonia wber Um fast el Andes fall Into dkMrdea. and t whit men seldom tread, 11 great strstchs r desert and takes of land, niti left-ove- aiming th but, Imitating the animal' action, clawing at th air as at a tree. From tU natural. 1st' interpretation of his story, the gaiicno, half-peon, half Indian, bad observed the megatherium near Laguna Blanca, at the end of Chile, and the time was, roughly, U months previously. He bad eea It and run! "W n dared Nuhuel Huapl. A huddle of build. depths 1 ,Her the Jungle forest Interlace overhead, firs--, ating eternal shadows, and slant anaconda snakes U oolled, waiting for unsuspecting prey. t ""lng marked settlement, and"beyondroi fwampr exnde tb miasm of deeayed Tbs sir is poisonous and Vtoaomou spider llv In rugged peaks cut by sharp ravines through which Insect light winds ar magnified to gales upon the Jake, 'paradise with millions of Th water are broad, on thousand meter ;7, tangling in their webs. 1 the-las- deep In spots, elsewhere tbar is beauty in an monsome of the giant agree, have crawled ster which inhabited th upland plain and tb night It it an eerie plac. th of countries valley to way and million Borthern years ago. j, of monstrous feet. SENSED COMING OF MAN Her, Joojjo jiatlves say, and adentlata par-tioll- y ' ' Ai vy f ' - i4 " unfathomable. By day untrammeled sense; by The hill seem U moan, resound with the tramp fa fa J ; 'A? ' - t to sens th coming of man with hi instruments of death, thee monster deserted th territory, where great citle now a tend, and lumbered southward Into these r " fastnesses. For ages, and ages scientists agree stretching far back before IKlng Tut built hi tomb; long before Queen Isabella pawned her jewel to assist th Genoese sailor to find a new world; wnll th colpnist fought against th British, and Our forefathers engaged tn the great Civil War, these monsters wallowed through th jungle and splashed Jn the unfathomable lake, undisturbed by the troubTesfth civilised world. And then out of this noit world"' report began leaking into th universities and the museums, Native bad seen strange creatures, basking 14 th warm waters 'of the lake. Itiardi, Whiofc it stood on their tails., would be taller than tree. Seeming Pata-gonia- . were titfypurins meir ... sreese. anu ineir pet piga THE WORLD IS INTERESTED j LEADS THE WAT . OLD LAKE-MA"No wonder that Indian vow that giant animals walk around. There are haunted sounds in th tree whether they thresh or stand motionless. liSJSJ , Th hair rise upon a shrinking skin at th possibilities the black void present. Imagination no other gtosf, W to Patigonlan Tas ness, and giving account and ' plesJoMJ living dinosaur was credibly received a the V :. ) MartlnheflUld., .. PROBABLY an American lias or, who ha lived many year ft (k Sheffield tt An4ifc- -i VHtftji jcountry of of was h do trind Tbdor RooseTelt, himself on of th graafc est explorer of hi day.; j Alt J WI 11 1 wJLMwlJ - creatures were thought to be extinct. Only skeletons, embedded in rock, gave evidence that they even had ever existed. were organised to hunt out Hurried exped"" thess creatures. A live dinosaur would be worth AU X.rVA .rTX jPJi 7M 1 1 jfi 1 A EhM I l . V gtiS2MM-ijf.r- a 'ISTt 'I Mil II BELIEVED SHEFFIELP When Bheffleld' lory ejaeh4 clvillxatlon. scientists, who for mny year had been IncUmd to discount stories told by . native, took sjw t--Wr iannosaurus 1"1 Wl 1 TriceiraiopSy stone moiv bop. so men were fired with a hope, and the possibilities of a strik a fabulous as the lost mines of South America might reveal. With guns and trapping equipment, with star hells to right the jungles and dynamite to explode in the lakes In the bops of driving to th millions, Andcw. ;JJffiseJbe)nddbubt 11 lit Teng-Teng- ' " that awfenlmW doeitatr-- :V -- ' a description of a piesiosaurua back in the fastness beyond the Andes. . 'The spot was reached', after many weary days, infl 8tafsKelt8wPre fired siiioes' bah Esgtntf- rThey curved upwards, burst end burned with sliver-blu. light that spread across the waters, . end flung the mountains into ragged silhouette. "Then the watchers scanned the lake. Mysterious splaehings were heard, and broad ripples circled out something bad sunk. "But after many' weeks the expedition returned. -- The 'something'. had eluded them. ' sjfH J e f v I fi f , m 11 r ANOTHER LOST TRAIL BeybriA these mountains lie5 ihe lost world,,dnd 4he repufed liidln place ofah- imals taller ihan irce&.ajuJ older ihan. AmericatA" i set ' "We met a gaucho, who had traveled far south, a huge animal as tall as 25 feet by the gaucho's Indication against a tree. ' "What was "To' test his credibility, I showed him a book was broken down and stones started beneath feet weirdly. Night is a weight. ' "An old lake man sailed us along Pass Coyhu. For a day or two nothing happened. Then in containing reconstructed photographs of almost, 11,8 distance we perceived what might have' been ' very known prehistoric anlmat A, the pleeiosaur! Itself a black, moving mass.. "He passed over the dinosaur, the triceratops,, "However, it'.prov4.lo..M-V-l- ol pack4' the pterodactyl, mastodon: and brontosaurus. Ap-- flotilla of otters 'h,n.' hfiaf s Snnronrhi "That night the camp fire awakened glinting ..gajenuy-me- y coavejej uutumnoTilEn. Suddenly, ; ' -- Ain" the brown wrinkled eyes of the ancient. t'si! tralca Birv vr ; : j ," Ha huddled deeper In his poncho. In his youth NATIVE IMITATES MONSTER he had hunted wild cattle about Lake Nuhuel, 1 "II vuatarlnt'-.'iath "megathorium. The ''. " .'''V-''A .A .Huapl.; photograph Wa a reproduction- - of th great saw-It- ,' he said walked ' 'It unemotionally. "limbs of tree, on two , ground sloth, tearing at the lower like Its and legs tail was man, another' Ji had seen that. - , 'A lesj. It head touched the high branches of trees, moment h was' moving; lumbtrlngly. 'iLJl adi w bespit plunged suddenly awtiy, Uia scrub sawthiTOkljir tirs - 'AN - " '' i' '"I ''A. it' : . ' s . lore, however, is rich in prehistoric monsters, two of which caused the deluge and. In their struggle for supremacy, wiped out an archaic civilization, , en enormous serpent, was mistress of "Coi-Cal- Elephants' Retreat old tradition among .natlyes of South America and Africa has It that some--. Is If possible, scientists ask, that . South America possesses a similar place where prehistoric animals live through all the year they have supposed to have been extinct? . Thi place may beATleira del Fuego, tbey valwhere in the Interior of Africa Is their where spend go retiring elephants tp ley : A,,... rsajgi". v,.A say, There lb jyocld. has changed BOHtnd No white man ever has seen this valley. the people advanced little since Darwin called ever seen, them the most primitive rac Only a few natives. have been fortunate enough . stunted in growth, sleeping on the wet ground, to view It from a distance. These natives cave come.back with glowing coiled up like animals. stories of how the elephants, old, almost .too A With fastness to .repel th hardiest, the land lie forgotten, " But among the broSen ftias! old to combat with beasts and man In the mora accessible and inhabited territory, llv in quiet. of wild rocks, lofty hills and entangled forests', may be hidden the valley of the megatherlutn andln the-- midst of plenty of food, In this my' and the swamps of ths dinosaur. terious place. - 'ht'id't . ' "What the Indians told was ot too. recent oc currence to be dismissed as legendary. Their folk nd who described ' leng-Teng'- ,, s : kimwnr : STRANGEST CORNER OF EARTH "Th riddles of the Cordilleras which are' now end then disclosed In old popular tales, relating to the former existence qf mysterious races or giant, monstrous animals, the last remnants of t said to hid the geological periods still ' in tome forsaken valley, always thrilled me. "They still thrill me perhaps more than ever after two years , ot exploring work, for .1 hav some discoveries that seem to. class this . mad paradoxical silent country among fairylands, and can relate things which are purely scientific truths. b"t which appear to be taken from th . Thousand and On Night. "Patagonia Is one of the strangest corner of "IheearUTwhere, advancing step by step, yon will meet with surprises and' contradictions, and on-- , solved riddles will force upon you th conviction that life Is still lurid wlththe color of romance nd adventure." . -' ns?fil'yrijAUlli-8lnJ.3.1- ' " long-pas- f "SECRETS SAFE OR A WHILE , Only a short time hence and the silent. Im Cordilleras will hav to penetrable one or more of their many secrets when th searchlight 6( modern science penetrate the darkness surrounding the existence of th enchanted city and the history of Its mysterious builder. The secrets of, the land ot th dinosaur ar af for many years, however until men hav wiped from tb map the pass word to Creation' Cabala. snow-swe- ( ' - ' DAUGHTER FRIGHTENED ', . "My own followed latr. W could not understand It; nor oould w Ttsc demand the mystery ' of Strang sounds w beard about tt lak at night as though something - we swimming. "Then, On vnln at dusk, my daughter was; down by th .lak. "fli H Suddenly a thing ard. about 10 feat long aad hatf'4 high crashed pan her making heav lly for th lake whar U dlsappearad. 8h"ran back screaming with frtght, but when I got; to th lak nothing. ' vtTnTiSxT morning InajMctai f broad trail OTnd'Oirmigivh on-tth.thW( . by th plung for tb water. There), j iB dtfut in my mind that ho ordinary animal i made this trail - "I found 'teillat, path hav evra't time ,ti(c 1 nd broken whllf looking el 'the 'lakeat nlfht I hav seen a dark form moving ' about th water. " lM '. u Dr. Jose D. Wolf, whose explorations .havs rein the farthest south cently uncovered a cave-citand also another between Lake San Martin and Lake Cardlel, along .the latitude, says of his years spent in the remote ends : " ;, of South Amrek-a:- . A1 JWJhdji ther DISBELIEVERS TURNED INTO FISH "When the' grand conflict took place the disbelievers weTetransformed into flsh, whit a faith ful few, together with the giant animals, scaled mountains to salvatipn; and. although the waters rose higher and higher until all other land was lost, the mountains floated victoriously. , the people and Out et gratitude to animals never returned to lower levels." How much of that legend accounts tor th wide native belief in' lost cities and monsters living millions of, years beyond their Urns may never be ! -- "Percy Garrett.'now of Beamsvlile, Ontario, and" his son. Leslie, had seei an amphibian monster ' Bear Lake Nuhuel Huapi. r would some day" Cai-Ca- i in rebellion; buit the population forty-Sevent- h asjugh ' Teng-Ten- people hat cave-villag- e , itr lh Teng-Teng- OnelU we warned serpent, ruled th hsd generations also , For ' ,No feathered queer reputation thing remain near It; indeed, tb nam 'Lsk of Gees Originated from th fact that flr on settlsir then another lost his entire flock f geese, which up to then Mad WTr6 , hU3lfeeugatera or most of It remained. Incredulous. course, nothing to "Accompahiod by a Chilean' naturalist, ' Out across the. Patagemla wilds. .. the sea; mountains. but strange stories of eerie 'sighu and ghost like sounds were hrQugt-ba- ck by the xptorers;- -i -Gayne dexter, noted Australian Mplnrer,' wbo accompanied one of the expeditions, writes: "Heavily armed, and carp'lng six months' sup piles. Benor. Onelli's expedition moved forwsrd v. trto the wilderness; ,' "Sheflleld, an American prospector, had given ; illi "V ysATTTiii. ' s . Tor U year Jh .. or ten' million year extinct, these expeditions set out in pursuit of the dinosaur and th megatheri-- . um, through the Patagonlan wildernesses. .Nothing'. has been fourfo1,'fof YV ; Oanos the Lakr of Osessn , mmH sheet of water near Esguel in.tkw Ftrfstesceiwtwrwrppo GHOSTLY SOUNDS ' 'Thar must b omthln doer ' ' there!" they agreed. Here' SheBleld' tvry; , "I llv near th Laguna 6 lo realised EERIE SIGHTS y ' Such " I ., "' D1NAMITED LAKE "Several partle hav dynamltsd th lake,, but nnuocessfully. I ball ve that th plesioaaur haunt, la In th whatever It may cavern that honeycomb th I fmpcatfbi wall of th lak, to see Into these. Light plwcea tjn'y a few feet of watn. Thereafter at strata of ruth and weed that' all attempt to fathom, Mack de'pts seeming to knit th masse of bjmb tain' shadow tnt on resuWva r t. sua-merg-ed fit dr " . whol. "I hav stopped talking (bout tW ' t beast, for my prevtoit r L tb mark. Hrt.jio!!y ftA. respectable father of aevtn boy gjrlai hav been- - held vp- t) ridicule. "v "Th fact remain that thr tsA omethlng myateriou, in th Andeaw "A lakes som hug EMntr?-a- 4 thai no matUt what fsssjl aay. u lr trang J4. a4 tfta . thsr " ta tfe gacMty Katsie) l MJLJgJg, ' -- II |