| Show EXPLORER EXPLORE 7 11 TO HUNT FOR THE FORKED TAIL MONKEY to enter lands where they never heard of world war washington Kwei chow where the mysterious non chinese tribes ot of china live and where the famed forked tall monkey Is said to dwell Is to be explored by an expedition sent by the national geographic society frederick it 11 has haa been designated to proceed to peking to organize his staff tor for tho the trip into the remotest part of china the province to be explored Is about tile the size of missour lits sour has bas a population of it ai Is as a inaccessible as tibet one of the few visitors who has penetrated only the fringe of ewel chow said gald he saw types embling the gourka the south sea islander tho the american indian the east indian and nd the negro about 35 of the non chinese of the province have survived the process of chinese absorption many blady of tile the strongholds strong holds have never been visited by white men and whole tribes d do not know that the world war was ought fought occasional travelers have reported how some of 0 the tribes thrash grain on oil the lie rooftops as in the holy land how others have great prayer flags flying on fortified castles and how quarrels are settled on horseback with blunderbusses blunder busses broadswords broad swords and bog bags of stones as weapons the monkey the expedition will seek Is the of which the only evidence uval lable now Is a skin there has been the geographic society says regarding the possibility of this species being an animal described in a famous passage of chinese literature as follows follow its nose Is turned upward and the tall very long and forked at the end whenever er it ruins rains the thrusts tb tho 0 forks loto into its ita nose it goes la in herds and lives in friendship when ono one dies the rest accompany it to burial its ilg 8 activity to 1 so 0 o treat great that it runs its head against the trees its if fur la Is soft end and cray and the face black llos lion on the tha watershed wate rahil b be tween the and wt west risom |
