MAGAZINE SECTION % FICTION ffot to. FEATURES Part 4.8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1922. What an American Explorer Found in a Patagonian Cavern QTORY of CKarles Wellington Furlong, F. R. G. S., Famous as a Scientist, Brings ^ Up Possibility of Finding So-Called Extinct in Unexplored Regions of the Earth.Remarkable Find of Remains of Pampean Ground- in Cave in Heart of the Andes Article R.eads Like Fiction, But Specimens Are Now on Ex¬ hibition.Late Reports of Seeing Gigantic in .The Expe¬ dition Headed by Prof. 0 Nelli, Director of the Zoo at Buenos Aires. the with innumerable lakes clothed to other forms of bony armor reach the with edge of their glistening peaks very surface of the dermis and are impenetrable forests, and on the east merely infested with horny epidermis. they are edged by the Patagonian the west seared on * * * * plains and on innumerable ! their coastal edges with what did and coves, with WELU this thing: look ! channelwavs, inlets and when did of mountainous islands like, it live, you I an outer line will ask. It is the Patagonian channels. naturally possible to forming of reconstruct with the evidence at hand The islands are t^e mountain tops which were un- with reasonable exactitude a pic¬ the western ranges, ture of this when the land sank. The great, gfcint , submerged had one the skill and are their valleys, into imagination of channelways Mr. Knight of the American Museum which the cold waters of the southern of Natural History. As yet I am not oceans have swirled. was Last aware that such a picture has-been -¦ - this ---.¦¦ ^ The name of place made, but ancient chroniclers .:I V Hope inlet. This was named by the among expedition, the indigenious inhabitants of Pata¬ THREE WARRIORS OF A PATAGON'IAN TRIBE, THE TEH I ELCHES. famous H. M. S. BAigle gonia tell that their earlier Darwin was a member. It people WHOSE ANCESTORS HAVE A LEGEND CONCERNING THE GREAT HAIRY of which recorded the existence of a end of a long zig-zag- strange, ANIMAL WHICH UNDOUBTEDLY WAS THE GRYPOTHERIl'M. was the ver> ugly, hairy animal which had its maze of channelways that led ging abode In the Cordillera, the ranges into the very heart of the Andes of the Andes to the south of east, man, and that this g-reat cavern was one suddenly wake from a long som¬ themselves. which would be used as an old corral which these had crossed, how¬ latitude 37 degrees. My in* nambulance from his he would My expedition friends, the Tehuelches (southern Pata- hairy grypotheria were captives. quickly expire and suffer the bitter ever. from the east, after a rough Still another THE MOST I'MSl Al, PIECE OF HIDE IN THE WORLD, FOUND IX One morn¬ gonians) have mentioned similar ani¬ question may possibly tragedy of having awakened from a journey over the Andes. arise in the minds those THE PATAttOXIAX CAVEUX, WHICH NOW REPOSES IX THE BRITISH named mals, about whose existence they say of gifted Mesozoic trance about thirty million ing. with a young pioneer with such too late. Ml SEI M. THE WHITE LIKE SMALL ARE SMALL and their ancestors had transmitted the re¬ imagination, particularly As H. G. Wells says, SPOTS, PEBBLES. Eberhart and my companion in view of the recent reported "The BOXES. FORMIXG A PART membrance. seeing pediod in which the marine OF THE ANIMAL'S ARMOR. guide who had crossed Patagonia of the so-called Is it the low shrub One question that will naturally plesiosaurus. monster thrived was between two with me. I rode through that mon¬ beeches arise is as- to the age of epoch in possible any of these great hundred and sixty and two hundred BY CHARLES F. of Califate and low-growing sters of an ancient still and WELLINGTON FURLONG, R. G. S. sides of the which these great ground am¬ epoch might sixty-five million years ago, and to the great mountain bled over the land. Close to the l>e inhabiting those mysterious un¬ the abrupt ending of the marine rep¬ PERHAPS no part of this great globe of ours has offered greater Andes. We soon came to the broad , in th* same identical layer, explored Patagonian mountain wil¬ tile is beyond all question the most stimuli for the imagination than South America. The very first ex¬ entrance of an enormous cavern dernesses? in stones polished by the hand of man striking revolution in the whole his¬ plorers back marvelous tales from Columbus' time which nature had sculptured out of the earth before the brought on, hole from have been found, also flints cut in the * * * * tory coming a great, quadri-spherieal of man. It is connected and even Shakespeare records reports in his day from the Guianas like formamtion of same manner as those found in the probably the pudding-stone Pampean formation. Also other evi¬ t I rELL, that same question being with the close of a vast period of of there whose heads did below their as tertiary conglom- beings grow shoulders. Always to the rock known dences the contention that asked a few years ago. caused equable, warm conditions and the on¬ In fact, it closely resembled support those there was a new Eldorado ahead of them. erate. the in be¬ the London Daily Mail to outfit an set of a new austere age in which the early conquistadores just what is known in Massachusetts as large quadruped question to an extinct fauna, expedition under the direction of winters were bitterer and the sum¬ Here the great inland reaches of this vast continent have been claimed as A number of longs though Roxbury puddingstone. with man. and that this Hesketh Pritchard, to try to solve this mers briefer but hot." " or less obscured cotemporary the of that race of the Amazons. trees more the, sloth in the problem. This expedition was the re¬ Who has not heard of the dramatic region halt-mythical of this cave, ground "disappeared only immediate opening great which is called the historical sult of the discovery of the famous discovery of the great mammoth Only a few years ago Conan laid the of a on some the floor of which was covered with epoch Doyle plot story | of our America." grypotherium skin and remains in the found encased in ice in northern Si¬ land of dust and deposits which epoch high plateau the interior of . The plot of this remarkable gravel-like But there were further wonders re- Patagonian cave. The Expedition beria? Yet the find of the remains had accumulated over the gradual yarn had for its central motive exploration in search of a prehistoric vealed in this great Patagonian cav- went and brought back some inter¬ of the grypotheriumllstai is a dis¬ away of the cavern's roof. monster in falling ern in connection with the remains esting and valuable scientific results, covery "unique in the history of pale¬ of the existence of which these regions Doyle's characters I had heard of this remarkable of Grypotherium-listaf. The re- out did not catch a glimpse of a ontology on account of the remark¬ were to have obtained The adventures and romance re¬ cave of certain animal remains of supposed proof. mains themselves were found beneath grypotherium. However, in my opin- ably fresh state of preservation of all extinct fauna which had been found volve around their hunt for this beast. the dried earth on the floor of that ion, the expedition never penetrated the remains; some of the new speci¬ strange there. It resulted in my inspecting enormous chamber which; according far enough to actually give the mat¬ mens exhibit no indication whatever Now comes a report of a great monster seen swimming recently in an the cave very carefully and, through' Dr. Hauthal. ter a fair test. They stopped at the of having been buried. Many of the to some to the geologist. Rudolph Andean lake and to which the has seen fit to attach the excavating, bringing light seemed to have been artificially in¬ point, more or less, from which they bones retain th*ir original whitish press pseudonym finds. The top sur- LIEUT. COL. CHARLES WELLINGTON FIRLONG, EXPLORER, very Interesting cased by rude walls. In one spot should really have started. Beyond color, apparently without loss of plesiosaurus. However much the world may shrug its shoulders in doubt face was a thin of this dust Al'THOR AND SCIENTIST, WHO MADE REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES IN layer these remains were "scattered them, .north and south, lay thousands gelatin, while both these and other as to the truth of such a record, it has been taken j in which could be found PATAGONIA. HE WAS STATIONED IN WASHINGTON DURING PART OF seriously enough by deposit, a thick of excrement of square miles of mountain valley bones, which have evidently been en¬ shells and of recent ani- HIS SERVICE IN THE WAR. through deposit Prof. O'Nelli, director of the zoo at Buenos to. induce him to start ashes, benes of some herbivore (herb- and densest kind of forests, in many tombed in fresh dust, bear numerous .^6$, broken by man. The gigantic organizing an expedition to attempt to run down this creature. Accord¬ mals, probably .-ating), evidently the ground sloth parts impenetrable to man save remnants not only of the dried contained. besides to an a .central layer sider it be that of extinct hear where compact armor for the pro- itself; in another spot they were as¬ through the greatest labors. Also great but als*o of shriveled mus- ing to Prof. O'Xelli. this strange zoological remnant of a prehistoric age is trees and dried leaves,' periosteum, i branches of of the Pampean formation, Arcto- tectlon of this strange beast. In re- sociated with an extensive accumula¬ swamp lands, undiscovered lakes and cles, ligaments and cartiiages." a descendant either of the or remains of the (the wild a rem¬ probably horny-plated glyptodon of the ! the guanaoo therium. Again, there was spect to the presence of this bony der- tion of cut hay; there were also a few hidden-away valleys and upland plateaus. Descendants of the grypotherium's also of the extinct horse. a mal armor this skin differs from that . If you can a creature the llama), and nant of the femur of large extinct of stems sharply cut, not That there are any de¬ contemporary, man. still exist and imagine resembling , a low- of all other known terrestrial mam- pieces surviving onshippidium, were found. In rodent, while two well preserved roam the and mountain* of with limbs and short broad feet and the of an malia, except certain Edentata. But bruised or torn at the end. This scendants of the pleisiosaurus or his plains strong of size ox, you have er layer there were no traces of hoofs, some upper molar and some Do the descendants of the even among the Edentates this skin is fact is especially important in con¬ contemporaries. who incidentally Patagonia. some idea of while was a more branches or leaves. Here we brought other remains determined them as some out- the glyptodon. the megatherium or less I unique in this respect, that all the nection with Dr. Hauthal s discovery lived, perhaps, in a period twenty grypotherium itself exist in to light not only bones of an ancient those of an extinct Pampean horse uninhabited, mountainous toothless or feet in ossicles are buried in the low¬ of cut hay in the cavern and goes to million years ago, is not conceivable. of-the-way, gigantic sloth, perhaps eighteen twenty length, which, animal, but also some of its hair and of the genus onchippidium. In this deeply lands of the An¬ \ er half of the thickened dermis, and support his remarkable theory that for the actual climatic and other con- forests and swamp with its short and lumbered over the land¬ a small piece of skin and its excre- connection I personally observed and of neck, heavy body powerful , the hairs are in every part these giant ground sloths were actu¬ ditions necessary for their existence dean ranges Patagonia? ment. found bones belonging to the mod¬ implanted scape, and with its strong prehensile tongue tore the leaves and twigs of this upper half, whereas all the ally kept in captivity and fed by | seem no longer to exist, and should Perhaps! * * * * ern Patagonia! puma and guanaco upon which it subsisted from the trees and shrubs. the little rodent of the A BOUT me on the floor of this great and ground * * # * trail a seared the of great animal, cabin were evidences of previous Magellans, ctenomys. TiUT it is the southern part of South through the dense tropical under¬ excavations, and. without doubt, these I found also a dark brownish and in that re¬ coarse some¬ America, fascinating growth, leaving prints of things, w-ere the results of the explorations light yellowish hair, as a word in he resembled but times in matted lumps, sometimes a gion known Patagonia, which, said, feet, of my predecessors to this spot.Dr. of House Is Busiest Man in itself to conjure with, that mysteri¬ were not feet; also resembled a few isolated hairs in the dust and Congress they Ramon Lista. Dr. Rudolph Hauthal Speaker ous crcatures have been reported as 's flappers, yet were not flap¬ and Dr. Francesco Moreno, all of Ar¬ gravel, but the greatest and most re¬ markable find of all was one of the seen from time to time. Twelve pers. A short time later, in a shallow gentina, and the explorer, Otte Nor- Freder¬ places have been definitely men¬ part of the lake he saw an animal denskyjold. Each had done his part and very first, a discovery made by Dr. Representative when on an ex¬ H. G1LLETT of Massa¬ tioned in the last thirty-two ye^rs with a long neck and a head, which, contributed materially to the museums Francisco Moreno, ick in those The of the as the lairs of these things, be¬ he insisted, was neither a snake nor and the building of the evidence, ploration survey parts. chusetts, Speaker and shows how on March 4. com- tween the latitudes of 3S degrees a turtle. This animal, Mr. Post is which later determined that the story is strange, House, who, great scientific dis¬ of continu¬ south, which is a few degrees north quoted as stating, may have been a vertabrae and other bones belonged sometimes an important pleted twenty-nine years covery hangs by a slight thread of ous service in Congress, accomplishes fate or circumstances. more work in volume and importance # 3je * # day in and day out than any o.ther member, and with so little apparent ten years before my reaching effort that he seems to be one of the Last Hope Inlet Dr. Moreno, while least occupied among his 434 col¬ JUST this on the work mentioned, reached leagues. His own efficiency, supple¬ a tree the spot. On the limb of by mented by an exceptionally capable, cabin of a lone adventurer living on zealous and well organized office the coast the quick eye of the sci¬ force, makes this possible. what looked like an old entist noted Just skim over some of his manifold hide or dried skin. He fragment of and varied duties as Speaker: it was a was informed that fragment over the House, except of skin discovered He presides of a larger piece when it into the committee of before some Argentine goes two years by the whole House, when he calls a fel¬ in a cavern (the one 1 men¬ officers to take the chair. in the neighboring low member tioned) existing all ques¬ Dr. Moreno hastened to the He dccldes parliamentary heights. and with 435 members, many of and made a few hurried excava¬ tions, spot to as clever which no further traces them very eager show-up tions, gave themselves, it will of the discovery. The skin was res¬ parliamentarians Moreno from further de¬ be readily seen that there are end¬ cued by Dr. trouble struction, for it had been serving as less possibilities for causing excellent kindling from time to time, in this line. with which the lone adventurer lit He refers to the proper committee finding It an excellent dried each bill or resolution introduced, and his fire, al¬ tinder. there have been well over 10,000 One piece of this skin had original¬ ready this se^feion. ly been secured by Dr. Otto Norden- He receives all executive communi¬ while the main portion, if not cations from the White House and Che skjold, Mo¬ the entire skin rescued by Dr. various departments, and all reports LOOKING OCT FROM THE OPENING OF THE REMARKABLE CAVE IN THE PATAGONIAN ANDES NEAR is now in the British Museum. required to be made by the hundreds reno I be¬ THE SHORE OF LAST HOPE INLET. IT WAS IN THIS CAVE THAT THE SKIN OF THE SCPPOSED PRE¬ A fragment of Myledon skin, of commissions and bureaus and HISTORIC ANIMAL WAS FOUND. lieve, also reposes in the famous La boards and departments. Plata Museum in . * * * * pf Lake Nahuel-Huapi, and 52 degrees modified survival of what is to a giant ground at But there are some astonishingly spoken sloth, first prob¬ ttE receives petitions, fouth, which is about at Cape Virgins, of as the plesiosaurus. ably spoken of as interesting things about this lone suggestions, aneomyiodon-listal, and for all sorts at the entrance to the Strait ot Ma- But now comes a statement from but later determined as the ,grypo- piece of hide. First, its remarkable protests requests skin is on all sorts of mat¬ Prof. O'Xelli. who is quoted as stat¬ therium-listai, which is state of preservation. The of information v gellan. v^ry closely al¬ Lieut. Commander O. Bevilaqua. ing that this recent creature related genus to the mylodon. tut fourteen by twenty ters, some legislative and some prob¬ approximately from from commanding the L". S. S. Kaweah, no«[ ably of the glyptodon or magatherium for our purposes we may speak of this inches. It varies in thickness most anything but legislative, The outer side of the of the country. at the Philadelphia navy yard, is re¬ type is likely the same family as .that remarkable creature as a giant 0.01m. to 0.015m. \all parts covered with a very He is with the administra¬ ported as stating that in June, 1906, which was actually fired upon and pampean ground sloth. skin is completely charged coarse hair without business on the House end FOR BEI\G ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH A MtLTlTlDE OK TASKS. when anchored in one. of tho numer¬ hit by the explorer Kamon Lista in The remarkable character of the dense and rather tion of all SIX OP SPEAKER GILLETT'S REASON'S of this of under fur, still implanted and is chairman of the E. I.. A. SANPORH. MRS. l.OllSE M. (l.AKK«0\, ous coves in the Srtail ot Magel¬ 1890, but without hurting it. He also discoveries cave lies in the any trace of the Capitol, LEPT TO RIGHT CHARLES PARKMAN. SECRETARY; that the skin, without any signs on in of the House GEORGE W. HI"BERT. lan he was on watch. As he held makes the remarkable assertion that fact, first, these bones were not firmly in commission charge LEHR PESS, WILLIAM A. REITEMAW AXD and of a staff ) lonely and scanned the sky¬ ancient remains, not remains, but were the actual bones still it of decay, light, yellowish office building, and also has jurisdic¬ (Photo by I. Pridgeon, photographer vigil excellent state The longest hairs measure the House restaurant. shoreward a ice-covered but actual remains, have been found in of preservation. brown color. tion over line great to 0.065m. in The bowlder crashed down the mountain¬ in Patagonia of this animal, whose In some cases, even with pieces of from 0.05m. length. He has to satisfy*and amicably ad¬ of the Capitol and there is a con¬ i His office is the meeting place of jority. will testify that never among: ancestors and whose muscle or tendon is stiff and straight and remarkably the of his the committee to the thirty-eight men who have pre¬ side with a terrific splash into the belonged adhering to them. hair just squabbling colleagues stant stream of visitors, not only 1 legislative steering to the quatenary era of 100,000 years Secondly, large cylindrical of and proved to be quite cylindrical for the more desirable offices in the determine and programs, and sided over the House as Speaker has sea. Hardly had It disappeared when pieces tough, from every state in the Union, but policies ago. the actual excrement of the beast tranverse sections taken under the and House office as many conferences are held there been one more uniformly courte¬ an enormous horse-like head appear¬ by Capitol building from all over the world, who come party This 'is not only a fact, but it may have been found almost intact. microscope. v new ones come ous. fair and respected, while pre¬ ed above the edge of the cliff risihg old members go and to look and are pleasantly greeted. there. be a surprise to some readers to These, in part, were composed of1 The strangest thing of all is the and there is a shifting about, His duties in the chair as presiding siding with, serene firmness. on a neck, possibly thirty general His home district has many and prodigious know that right in the heart of Bos¬ grasses, leaf sheets, fragments ot fact that the skin, on the inner side, consume There ate six good reasons why feet in and craned about for oftentimes due to changes in com¬ varied interests to which he must officer, generally speaking, length, ton there are, in the possession of leaves, etc., and from these many of is permeated and covered with little six in the and the House Gillett can surmount »uch a several minutes. Silhouetted as it was mittee assignments. £ive prompt, persistent and often¬ days Week, Speaker the writer, some of these remains of the plants involved have ossicles or bones, this whole thing six volume of duties so ahd so it made actually He divides authority with the Vice times personal attention. While is in session on an average of capably against the sky, proportions one of these strange creatures, been analyzed. having been taken by the pioneer ad¬ with time left for social discernible from the ves¬ President on ^control of the Capitol most members of Congress And it hours a day. serenely, It clearly brought from a faraway cavern ire the In association with these venturer as an old piece of cowhide * a roun* of not infre¬ remains, building and grounds, with the vet¬ pretty engrossing work to take care * * * activities, gulf sel. . Patagonian Andes. were the remains of other , incrusted with pebbles. Yet this with the President and occa¬ and eran architect of the Capitol, Elliott of the voluminous correspondence all this to deftand his attcn- quently Charles Johnson Post, artist * * * * among them a great carnivorous cat, marvelous, strange creature's hide lylTH in his district and also at this time, Woods, relieving them of the enor¬ from their constituents, this is but tion it might wtll be that sionally speeches writer, is quoted, larger than the existing jaguar, and was found to actually contain these other are; mous routine responsibility. one of the duties crowding upon the Gillett occasionally would places. They recording the story of a terrified half- tjERE i» the story. Continuing which must have been about the small, separate bones, varying from Speaker First reason.Charle6 H. Parkman, vil¬ He. co-operating with the Vice and this work has been mul¬ get impatient, but every one of his breed, who came into a Bolivian from Lake Nahuel-Huapi south to same size as an average tiger. This little pyramidal to little roundish Speaker, hisj tracing his ancestry of from President, must pass upon all appli¬ tiplied during and since the war, colleagues, even those of the most secretary, lage, which he had reached, west Cape Horn, a distance of about 1,000 find Is more or less parallel to the and oblong shapes, anywhere to one of the oldest families in of on one sol¬ democratic who back th» falls of the Madeira. While In the miles, Hes one of the most beautiful, cave lion in Europe. the size of a pea to half again as big cations to hold exercises any kind with the correspondence partisan persuasion, scheme to make the road hard and Massachusetts, being a direct de- I region of an almost unknown lake, awe-inspiring and most There was also a femur as one's thumb nail, and here is the in the Capitol. dier's case oftentimes including unexplored , ma- (Continued on Fifth Page.) .Lake Rogoguada, he came upon the ranges of the Andes, a region dotted which has caused one scientist to con- remarkable part.they formed every- His office is one of the show places more than twenty-five letters. we&risom« for the republican \ 4 >¦ 1 r