Show discover ancient habitat of the rhinoceros men traces found in hill of mystery in transvaal cape town sensational finds of golden ornaments and other rel cs of a vanished native race have just been made in the northern transvaal at a place called the hill of Alys mystery tery the bathes it appears long have known of the hill of mastery but they feared the place and never ex elored it thirty years ago a white hermit named bernard cotrie lived near the spot he ile had accompanied doctor livingstone on the famous journey to lake la e agami and cotrie un cl abed the almost sible of mystery but at that time there was no suspicion that a prehistoric settlement existed south of the river and dotries s sto ries of strange discoveries attracted no attention now that valuable relics relies have been unearthed men who remember cotrie have recalled his story of a rich treasure chamber in the dense derise bush near the hill the golden treasures already found have whetted adaven appetites and the hunt Is on meanwhile the hill of mastery astery Is being guarded by police pollee while a party from the universo ty of I 1 cretoria car ries out scientific research untroubled by intruders A powerful tribe the most valuable find was a small golden A very small clan of natives whose ancestors ped he rhinoceros still lives in rhodes a it Is regarded as practically certain that the people who innab ted the hill of mystery and smelted gold there were rhinoceros men discoveries have been made not only on the precipitous hilltop of kapun gubie but also in the surrounding country the rhinoceros men were evi dently a powerful tribe in their day for the bush is impregnated with evi dences of old human occupation pot tery and beads besides the gold and copper ornaments have been found over a wide area A skeleton wearing a metal helmet was among the most interesting 0 discover es it has been suggested that the hill of mystery was vas the burying buryin ground of the foreign invaders who carried off the gold from the ancient mines of rhodesia some of the beads and or laments appear to be of 0 egyptian origin there Is a tradition along the lim popo that a small yellow people worked the gold and copper mines near the river trading with travelers who rho wore white cloth around their heads and rode on camels for the reason already mentioned the fists have had great d ff culty in ob tal ning native natlie guides galdes avery one who goes up diat it 11 dies say the natives we dont know why but they die A form dable fortress the hill of mystery Is a mass of hard sandstone ris ng out of the trop leal bush of the valley it i s the hill in the neighborhood topped with grass and it is now clear that the rhinoceros men carried him hun deeds of tons of earth to the t of their secret place the s des are rugged and overhanging and the fists only climbed it with the aid of ropes and ladders there Is one greit oblique cleft in the rol however which offett the least d ff cult path to the summit the entrance to tl e cleft is h adden by trees and a stranger might nev nener er find it holes ele cut in this cleft by the ancients ancien tb and once no doubt there were wooden rungs forming a sort of ladder to the t at the top of the cleft mere boulders evidently placed in bostion pos alon so that they could be toppled over in the event of an incas on this same terrible form of defense was found at other places whet e the dins cliffs in han hae e been climbed the stronghold of the rh n ocelos men was impregnable iso no other walls valls were needed indeed the only sign of bu iding folind on the summit was a small stone enclosure possibly once the chief s residence now occupied by baboons |