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Show SKETCH OF FRE-HIST0R1C MAN Early Painting Proves That Thousand of Centuries Ago Humanity Walked on Four Feet. The Paris Figaro gives an account of a recent remarkable discovery of paintings In a pre-historic cave of South France. In particular, a 6ketch has been found of a man who went-on went-on all fours and possessed a tail. The account runs, in part: "Count Begouen and his sons discovered dis-covered on the walls of the subterranean subterra-nean galleries some engravings estimated esti-mated to be 30,000 years old, and in such quantity and variety that the extraordinary ex-traordinary ensemble of pre-historic art work constitutes a veritable museum. mu-seum. "The animals figured In the cave aru considerable In number, and include reindeers, bisons, horses, both Isolated and In groups; bears, elephants and rhinosceroses. The representation of felines are very rare tn pre-hlstorlc art, but MM. Begouen have photographed photo-graphed In their cave a genuine lion, executed in bas-relief. They have made out, also, several birds. Including swans and ducks, as -well as three predatory night flyers. "The human figure is likewise represented repre-sented In the cave, which, In recognition recogni-tion of the sons of Count Begouen, has been baptized 'the Cave of the Three Brothers.' A silhouette Is particularly remarkable, almost baffling. It represents repre-sents a man in motion a man of powerful pow-erful body, whose head and shoulders are Joined by an enormous neck; a man whose upper and lower limbs and wbose hands and feet are perfectly perfect-ly human, but whose vertebral column Is prolonged In an exterior appendage resembling that of the anthropoids a man at last, 'who walks on four feet ! " |