SKELETONS INSIDE TREE.
A JUNGLE MYSTERY. A mystery of the jungle was disclosed recently in the Colonial Office’s report on the State of Brunei (Borneo) for 1936. The remains of about four persons were found completely enclosed in an artificial cavity 'in the living trunk of a tree. The tree, which was about four feet in diameter, had fallen in the ordinary course of nature-when the discovery was made 'by a sawyer. The age of the bones was estimated at about fifty years, and an examination of the tree suggested that not less than fifty nor more than one hundred years ago a panel six feet in length had been removed from the side of the tree and the heart hollowed out to contain, the hones, the panel being then replaced and completely regrafted on to the tree again.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 11
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139SKELETONS INSIDE TREE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 11
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