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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925.

SNAKE-KILLER AT WEMBLEY.Į

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The Mongoose's Immanity.

It was at Wembley, where tho Indian anako-charmers exhibit their curious pots, that the quos tion was only debated'; and the point at issue was whether the Mongoose, which specialises in killing snakos, was immune to snako polson or not,

Whilst listening. interestedly to the controversy my thoughts travelled back to old mau Mungla, a Prince of Snake

oharmera, who taught me more about enskes in a month than 1 would have learnt in a year on my own.

His nomenclature was not t mployed by the scientists, but ho was none the worss off for that. He wis, indoed, an artist:

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Our first meeting was rathor dramatic, My Indian cook object- od on principle to snakes in bie kitchen,, One pooped at him at intervals from a hole in the wall, and ho implored me to have its presence removed.

Mungla was mentioned as a likely candidate for the job, 80 that his services were duly requisitioned on the distinct understanding that he would earn a reward of one, rupee for evory snake captured. · ·

Then the snake catching bogan in earnost, His power over tho reptiles was nothing short of uncanny. He caught a snake a day for a whole week until I thought it advisable to discon- tinue the reward; after which the snakes doserted the kitchen, the cook regained possession, and conditions became quito normal again.

PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE. The old man's knowledge of anakes, however, was profound. He would tell the uninitiated of tho Mongoose's immunity from snake bite on account of the little animal's knowledge of a secret herb, which no human being had ever discovered.

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PREHISTORIC REPTILES,

Life Among Giant Dinosaurs.

He would produce a stone talis- man and dilgte at length on its virtues as an antidota for snake Anybody who has stood in

hardly

lay thoir oggs in sunny spots: for we must suppose that in this respect they were like other. dinosaurs whose eggs we know, But once out of the water they would have fallen an easy proy to tho amallor and lighter flesh- eating dinosaurs. Against mar, (had he been present) they would have boea avon mare defendoloss than a tortoise.

FLESH EATER.

Droad would be more justly in a man if he were to most ono of the groat flesh-eating dino- saurs. Those were lightly but strongly built, bounded on their, hindloga liko kangaroos, caught and rent their prey with clawod "... foro-limbs, and bit them with wide-gaping jaws armod with › sabra-shaped, saw-adged tooth. The huge skull of Tyrannosaurus with its cruel array of teeth, is certainly enough to make one shudder, and even tho Oxford Mogalosaurus would have boon an ugly customer..

But at thoir worst those dinosaurs would not have boon more dangerous than liona and tigers, and I suspect that man would have found thom loss terrible. The reason for my opinion is the exceeding emall brain with which the dinosaurs were provided. A crocodila of to-day has far less intelligence and a loss developed brain, than a modern mammal; but the brain of a dinosaur was relatively about one-tenth the size of that of a crocodile. One of the causes why all the dinosaurs became x- timot was no doubt the rise of tho more intolligent class of mammal.

Even those earlier mammals than later mammals of the same had brains very much smaller

bodily bulk. Man who, for all bis faults, is the most brainy.of all mammals, would have had, no difficulty in fooling even a Tyrannosaurus:

THE TOWER OF LONDON.

bite, and so convincing wore his front of the Diplodocus Carnegii! Pilgrims to the Tower of arguments that many a simple at the South Kensington Museum London are now able to see tourist bought one, happy in the could

have escaped good deal more of the famous thought that he could venture speculation on what it must have fortress than before. The By- abroad in comparative safety; but been like to jive contemporanious- ward, Salt, Broad Arrow, and. Bever droaming that there were ly with such monsters.

Martin Towers have .boen many more of a similar pattern; Not too bad, according to the in charge of a warder are taken opened for inspection, and parties fin the local stream-bed.

opinion of Dr. Francis A. Batter round. Until recently these To me, however, he told of the National History Museum sections of the Tower had been different story. Experience had in London, who outlines the used as living quarters, aud in taught him that the Mongoose was habits of these giant reptiles in the process of restoration many not immune at all, that it was the Daily News." merely a question of extraordin-

Interesting features have been ary agility, and a wonderful If there are people who, as a hrought to light. The new itener- faculty for judging distance. If result of the recent discoveries ary begins at the Byward Tower, the Mongoose was bitten it diod, of the remains of prehistoria passes the ground floor of the neither secret herba nor stone reptilos in Tanganyika Territory Cradle Tower, calls at the Salt talisman were of any avail. and elsewhore feel that life in the Towor, and continues along the

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Together we watched many a days when these monsters roamed ramparts to the Broad Arrow homeric struggle, and the same the earth must have been a very Tower, finishing as the Martin tactics were employed in all. We torrifying experience, I should Tower, would see the Cobra, hood ex-like to disabuse them, he says. panded, swaying to and fro, and True, the world in those days hissing with ungovernable fury; would not have boon well suited the Mongoose, evory hair, stand-for habitation by man, but that ing on end, manoeuvring in front, would not have been because of and tempting the snake to strike. the dinosaurs.

Suddenly the swaying head: would shoot forward, but the harmless vegetarians, and, though Most of these creatures wore Mongoose was already beyond certainly not "wed" still "timor- roach. Then, a counter-attack sous beasties," I make no doubt. rapid that the eye could hardly The long-necked, long-tailed Dip- follow, and two powerful jaws lodocus, a would fasten firmly on to the whose skeleton is in the Natural Lenako's neck.

For ton minutes the Mongoose Mr. Qarnegie to King Edward History Museum (prosented by would be enveloped in writhing VII), lived in the water, possibly coils during which time -the roptilo's neck would be orushod.

browsing on sea-weeds, or to e pulp. Then slowly the coils the succulent foliage from the raising hie nook to pull would ubraval, one last spasmodic banke. He had teeth shaped and shudder, and the sinister body set like those of a haymaker's would lie perfectly still.

The Mongopec would release bitten, with them, I suppose he rako, and as he could not have. his hold, examine his bandiwork raked' with them. Did he rake dust his fur coat, and proceed at leaves, or did he rako up shell- once to devour his victim-E. H. fish, as some have supposed? Wo N. G. in Times of India.

DAILY HUMOUR.

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have no definite ovidence, but certainly he could not have fod on anything higher in the scale" of life.

DEFENCELESS GIANTS,"

The somewhat stouter Cetic- saurus found in England, and oxbibited in the Geological „De- partment at tho Natural History Museum, lived a similar life. The American Brachiosaurs bad a more massive body still, with a thick tail and ponderous feet, but with more lofty shoulders, and a nock so long that it reminds one of a fireman's hose-pipe. Tho great weight of the body, and timba served to keep him under] the water as a divor attachos weights to his foot. Still larger, but af similar shape was the dinosaur that lived in a broad river once flowing scross Tang- "It's a misory to be in business anyika Territory. His upper in those days, I make a loss on armbone was over sovon foot long, ovorything I soll1"

and the reach of his head may well havo boon forty feat above the river' bottom.

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