AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] DRAGONS CAPTURED. NEW YORK, September 24. It is announced that Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, has captured two gigantic dragons in the jungles of A .Komodo Island, Malay Archipelago, and is now en route to America by the Aquitania. Huge lizard like creatures, they are eigt feet long and two hundred pounds in weight. Their appearance is horrid in the extreme. They are ns thick as a man’s-body and entirely covered by close protective armour. They have stubby legs, but e-in run faster than a man. They are entirely carnivorous. While the ex- : pedition was effecting their capture, one leaped on to the hack of a horse and so injured the animal that it had to he shot. The other consumed the hindquarters of -a deer in a single meal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1926, Page 3
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142AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1926, Page 3
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