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PENGUIN LOVERS.

**Sicial Customs" in the

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EARLY MAN IN MALTA.

Interesting Remains Unearthed.

The curious ceremonies which During the months of August attend the love-making of pen- and September two expeditions quins were described by Surgeon Were at work in

Malia: one, Commander Murray Levick in a "financed by the Percy Sladen lecture in London on The Social Memorial Fund, was pader Mise Habits of the Antarctic Pen- Caton Thompson and worked in guins." In the spring. the the cave of Gaar Dals; the lecturer said, the ben bird scooped ¦ other, under Miss M. A Murray out a rough bollow in the frozen and Dr. Edith Guest, exsivated ground, sat in it, and waited. the megalithic rains of Borg en The male birds went from nest to Nadur. nest in parties, and when one of them aw ahen who took his fancy he picked up pebble and placed is at her feet. If

pebale could no: be pro cured. as was often the case on the frozen ground. the male went through the proce-s in dumb show.

Kern

The cave excavations undertaken primitily with the object of securing further evidence as to the existence of paleolithic Man in Malta. Teeth of what may be Neanderthal Man ve been found in the cave, but so far no other remains of the kind are known in the land. It is im- The ceremony of placing the portant that a strict search should 810DE3 WAS a signal for all the be instituted other males to attack the one Maltese group of such remains, throughout the daring bird. A ternille battla ful-in order to throw light on the lowed in which there was much problem of the landbridge between spilling of blood, and ultimately Europe and Africs, of which the one bird is regarded as en Meita is probably one of the last titled to mate with the ben, and relics. he is left in possession.

On one occasion, said Comman. der Levick, a member of the party was sitting down watching the birds when a male came up, examined him closely for some rime, and then solemnly picked upa pebble and placed it at his feet. The human, not being "well up in the etiquette of penguin society, di not know what to do, and the bird, anding its advance ignored, inspected the strange. silent animal once again nibbled at his trousers, and then went off.

BIG FIRE IN SIMLA

Grand Hotel Totally Destroyed,

BUFFALO BIRTH-RATE.

Head Increases Eightfold in

Eight Years.

The great Canadian berdof buffslo at Buffalo Park, Wain- 6.146 head, according to wright, Alberta, has increased to the official count as the animals were being turned out of their wister quirters into the 160 square mile of range enclosed in the Pirk. The report, made to the Commissioner of Canadian National Parks, shows the naturali increase for the year to be 1.075 old age, and animals slaughtered, while the decrease due to fighting

crease of 994. Thirteen years 820 was eighty-one, giving a net in-

numbering approximately 700, wIL the nucleus of the great herd. purchased from Michael Pablo, of Montans, and the buffalo have grown in this period to eight and one-halftimes theoriginal number. fifths of the American bison in the Today Canada possesses three- world, with an estimated valus tion of $2,000,000. buffalo has been shipped to Eagt A pair of

land for the purpose of introduc-| ing new blood into the herds in the Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park

Much of the record of Ghar Dalam bas been lostowing to the fact that the cave has been for many years the happy hunting- ground for all sorts and conditions

The only herd of buffalo of any of men, from the skilled naturalist Reries) is that owned by the siz in England (says the Empire down to tourist. Miss Caton Thompson's containing about sixty animals. the souvenir-hunting Duke of Bedford at Woburn Park, excavations were, however, mada Buffalo were first introduced into in an undisturbed art of the cave; the Old Country in 1891, when and though Co remains were found, the accurate shipped by Colonel C J. Jones, palæalitbic ten full grown animals were observations and records may familiarly known as "Buffalo enable us to realize under what Jones." from his own herd at: conditions the different atrata McCook, Nebraska, to G. J. were laid down, and give evidence Leland. The shipment of buffslo as to the date of the fossil animal from the Canadian Ferd at Wain- bones found in the stratified soil. wright will be the second of!

PREVIOUS FINDS.

its kind to the British Isle. Late The megalithic remains of Borg Lord Stratheons, a donation of fa 1913, at the instance of the late en Nadur have always been two three-year-old bison was made known to archeologists, as the to the Royal Zoological Society of Siria, December 7th. The biggest trilitbon is the finest single Ireland to be placed in the Dublin gest fire which bas hitherto been in Malta. Bebind the trilithon a increased to five.

piece of megalithic architecture Gardens, where they have now witnessed in be annals of 8 mis terraced field had been built up. history occurred in the Grand completely covering the remains Hotel at 5 p.m. yesterday. The of the ancient building to a depth the finest stone implement yet fier is belt. d to bave started in the chimney of one of the rooms

of nine or ten feet. The excavs found in sits. Over the entire in the top far of the main build-

tions were made in this field and site potaherds were found in ing and, helped by a rather high snall area.

were purposely limited to & very quantity, and, very rarely s wind, rapidly spread over the

About twenty yards whole vase was found placed in whole estate. The efforts of the building

west of the trilithon an absidal an angle of the building, evidently Fire Brigade proved futile owing type peculiar to Malta

#19 found, of the as votive offering. to their inability to get at the

The Professor Zammit's wonderfal| arat of the fire and to insufficient in the middle of a corved wall the

entrance was in the south-east, discoveries at Tarehien Rave us pressure at the water mains with which outlined a forecourt.

distinction betwee the the result that all but two blocks plan of the building shows which had not been differentiated The Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery, was reduced to ashes in a few straight central axis ending at before. At Borg en Nadur our houra. The idle crowd which the north-west in a semi circular knowledge is advanced collected along the approach and niche, the width of the centrali further by finding pottery tran- near the building also impeded pissage: on each side of the sitional between the two eras. The greater part of the resid-circular apses, built of rough came to light in the excavation; central passige are two aari. Some fragments of painted pottery ents, personal effects had to be hewa atons. flung from the balconies and these stones and the primitive the style of decoration and in the The small size of these show retsa intueace in Windows and it is believed that character of the builling sug est colouring, and date them to the a good deal of pilfering took place that this is the earliest of the middle Vinnan period., Tais is Residents found a home with friends at the "Cecil" perhaps the prototype of the found between prehistoric Malts temporary Maltess Neolithic structures, and the first definite connection yet sum being left with only what Tarsbien and Mnaidra buildings, sad one of the other ancient they stood in The turulture and In the niche at the edi ware | civilizations. contents of the Rotel were totally three upright stongs, and hidden Jestroyed.

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The loss is estimated about ment on the norit Hide of the six lakhs of rupees. The Hotel niche were two-stone implemente; is said to be partially covered by one, of chart, shows distinct marks Insurance.

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