The head of the local museum at Port Elizabeth (South Africa) has received information from a Mr. Lepage, who was in charge railway construction in the Belgian Congo, an exciting adventure last October (says the London “Dally News.”)
    While Mr. Lepage was hunting he came on an extraordinary monster which charged at him. He fired, but was forced to flee, with the monster in chase. The animal before long gave up the chase, and Mr. Lepage was then able to examine it through his binoculars. It was, he says, about 24ft in length, with a long pointed snout, adorned with tusks like horns, and short horn above the nostrils. The front feet were like those of a horse, and the hind hoofs were cloven. There was a scaly hump on the monster’s shoulder.
    The animal later charged through the native village of Fungurume, destroying the huts and killing some of the native dwellers. A hunt was at once organised, but the Government has forbidden the molestation of the animal, on the ground that it is probably a relic of antiquity.
    There is a wild, trackless region in the neighborhood, which contains many swamps and marshes, where, says the head of the musuem, it is possible that a few primeval monsters may survive.—Central News.
    The interest of the foregoing story, with its suggestion of Conan Doyle’s “Lost World,” is in the fact that it tends to strengthen the belief, held by many undoubted authorties, in the survival of certain monsters of the prehistoric age in the swamps of Central Africa.
    The Belgian Congo borders on Rhodesia, and the labs Karl Hagenbeck, in his well-known book, “Beasts and Men.” has left on record his own conviction that in this region there still exists some kind of dinosaur, seemingly akin to the brontosaurus.“
    Hagenbeck says he received reports on the subject from two independent sources. The beast to which he refers was described by natives as, “half elephant and half dragon.” Precisely similar reports, he points out, were received from the negroes by Menges several made decades previously, while on the walls of certain caverns in Central Africa, actual drawings of these strange creatures are to be found.

From— The Sydney Morning Herald. (NSW: 1842 -1954), 2 Jan. 1920 Trove. National Library of Australia.