A PREHISTORIC ANIMAL.
OBSERVED IN THE CONGO. Bj Telegraph'.—Press Assn.—Copyrlfht.. ' Received Dec. 7, 5.5 p.m. .. Capetown, Dee. 6, News hag been received from Eliza* bethville apparently corroborating the existence of a prehistoric moneter called the brontosaurus, for which the Smith* sonian Institute expedition is searching. A Belgian hunter, Mr. Qapelle, who has returned from the interior of the Congo, states that he followed strange spoor: twelve miles and he sighted a beast certainly of the rhinoceros order. It had large scales reaching far down a Tery thick kangaroo-like tail, a horned mont* and a hump back. He fired shots at the monster, which threw up its head and disappeared into a swamp.—Am.. N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1919, Page V
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115A PREHISTORIC ANIMAL. Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1919, Page V
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