Logan Republican | 1904-10-19 | Page 7 | Ibex with Gold-Coated Teeth

I Ibex With Gold-Coated Teeth. I Particulars were given In several London papers recently of sheep, when killed, being found with gold-coated 1 il teeth owing to their having cropped n short grass In gold bearing districts H of Australia. Tho story was not new, Hj but It has called forth the following H Information from Alexandria: A Brit fflj ish army officer In Cairo, Capt. Tim- n Ins, states that when he was Ibex III shooting in the Sinai peninsula, In FU May and June last year, ho bagged two Bj fine old rams, and ono of tho first Hj things that ho noticed when skinning Bj tho heads was that nil tho sides of the Hi. back teeth wero coated with a bright lj metallic suhstanco of the color of Aus- Wfgi, trallan gold. Capt. Tlmlns asked his Hi "shakarrl" tho reason of this, and Bj was told that it was due to the ibex Bj feeding on a certain shrub.