Show race 0 ace of monkey men with tails found to inhabit a wild district in papua Is man descended from monkeys scientists say yes but have still to prove it they are still searching for the missing link they are looking for it among old bones says a writer in pearsons london weekly but a all the time it may be that the missing unk link is alive and kicking in fact the missing link may not be an old bone but a live monkey mon man and not merely one but a whole tribe of them A race of men with tails is reported to inhabit a wild district in papua and evidence of their existence has been given by a native from the fly river area according to the annual report of the lieu tenant governor of papua sir hubert murray the native was emphatic that tailed men were to be found somewhere to the east cast of the kemp welch he was pressed to give more details and aad said he was confident fid ent that at least one of these persons had bad a tall tail when asked why bewis he was so positive he replied because I 1 ate him several years yean ago sir hubert M murray urray recalls he met a much traveled man who claimed to hav met a tribe of tailed men along the fly river they lived to in houses raised on piles and in the floors ol of the dwellings holes boles were cut for each person through which his tail hung when he sat or lay down on one occasion this man said he crept along the house gently tied a knot in each tail and then raised the alarm that a hostile force was approaching the tailed men sprang to their feet but the knots caught in the holes and they were flung to the ground it was the man added a joke joka that could only be played once |