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_____________WICHITA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH27, 1925__________________
TIMES’ PAGE LEADING COMICFEATURES
HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY . The French Attempt To Colonize Canada.
by J. CARROLL MANSFIELD
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Published by arrangement with First National Pictures, Inc.
and Watterson R. Rothacker.
CHAPTER XV (Continued)
We had little time to watch
them, however, for an an instant
they had overtaken the fugitives
and were making a dire slaughter
among them. Their method was to
fall forward with their full weight
upon each in turn, leaving him
crushed and mangled, to bound on
after the others. The wretched
Indians screamed with terror, but
were helpless, run as they would,
before the relentless purpose and
horrible activity of these mon-
strous creatures. One after an
‘ Challenger climbed to safety one
dart of that savage curving beak
shore off the heel of his boot as it
it had been‘cut with a chisel. This
time at’least modern weapons pre-
vailed and the great creature,
twelve feet from head to foot
phororachus its name, according to
our panting but exultant Professor
— went down before Lord Roxton’s
rifle in a flurry of waving feathers
and kicking limbs, with’ two re-
morseless yellow eyes glaring up
from the midst of it. May I live
" fo. seechat. flattenedvicions skull
%. 1540 JAcQUES CARTIER
CAME BACK WITH FIVE SHIPS AND
MANY COLONISTS TO FOUND A
FRENCH SETTLEMENT IN THE
WILDERNESS OF CANADA.
CARTIER BUILT THE FORTRESS
OF CHARLESBURG FROM WHICH
HE MADE EXPLORING TRIPS UP
THE SILAWRENCE RIVER ,
IN 1542 ROBERVAL, WHO HAD.
BFEN APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF
CANADA, ARRIVED TO TAKE CHARGE
OF THE COLONY
HE WAS MET BY CARTIER.
T91 SAME VEAR Car.
AGAINST THE WILL OM THE
GOVERNOR, LEFT THE COLONY
AND RETURNED To FRANCE.
ROBERVL BUT A FORT NOT
FAR FROM THE INDIAN VI LAG
OF STADACONE, AT THE SITE
OF QUEBEC WHICH ANGERED
THE RED MEN.
7HB INDIANS WANTON THE WAR-
PATH AND ATTAC KING THE FRENCH
FORCED THE GARRISON 70 ABANDON
THE PORTANDESCAPN To FRANCE.
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TAP HUGUBNOT SETTLEMENTS.
TOOTS AND CASPER-
Casper Gives Every Dog Another Day
—By J. E. Murphy
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CASPER TODAY
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IN JUNE, HAS
ASKED ALL
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THE SEARCH
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MISSING
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‘other they went down, and there
were not half a-dozen surviving by
the time my companion and 1
could come to their help. But
, our aid was of little avail
and only involved us in the
same peril. At the. range of
a couple of hundred yards we
emptied our magazines, firing bal
let after bullet into the beasts, but
with no more effect than it we
" were pelting them with pellets of
paper. " Their slow reptilian na
tureal cared nothing for wounds,
and the springs of their lives. with
- no special brain’ center but scat-
tered throughout their spinal cords
could not be tapped by any mod
era weapons. The most that we
could do was to check their pros
ress by distracting their attention
with the flash and roar of our guns,
and so to give both the natives and
ourselves time to reach the steps
which led to safety But where
the conical explosive bullets of the
-twentieth century were of no
avail, the poisoned arrows of the
natives, dipped in the juice of
strophanthus and steeped after-
wards in decayed carrion, could
! succeed. Such arrows were of lit
the avail to the hunter who attack,
ed the beast, because their action
in that torpid circulation was slow,
and before its powers failed it
could certainly overtake and slay
its assailant. But now, as the two
- monsters hounded us to the very
foot of the stairs, a drift of darts
came whistling from every’chink in
the cliff above them in a minute
they were feathered with them, and
—yet with no sign of pain they claw.
ed and slobbered with impotent
rage at the steps which would lead
them, to their victims, mounting
clumsily up for a few yards and
* then sliding down again to the
ground. But at last the polson
worked., One of them gave a deep
rumbling groan and dropped his
huge squat head on to the earth
The other bounded round in an esc
centric cirelewith shrill, wailing
cries, and then tying down writhe
ed in agony for some minutes bet
fore It also stiffened and lay still.
With yells of triumph the Indians
came flocking idown from F their
caves and danced a frenzied dance
cf victory round the dead bodies, in
mad joy that two more of the most
dangerous of all their enemies had
been slain. That night they cut
up and removed the- bodies, not to
jeat—for the poison was still so
itive—but lest they, should breed a
pestilence. The great reptilian
hearts, however, each as large as
%a cushion, still lay there, beating
slowly and steadily, with a ken-
-le rise andftall, in horrible inde
pendent life. H was only upon the
third day that the ganglia ran
down and the dreadful thing: were
still. -
Some day, when I have a better
desk than a meatrtin asd more help
ful tools than a worn stub of pen
ell and a last, tattered note-book
I will write some fuller account of
the Accala Indians—ot our life
amongst them, and of the glimpses
which “we had of the strange con
editions of wondrous Maple White
“Land. Memory, at least, will never
fail me. for so long as the breath
of life is in me, every hour and
every action of that period will
stand out as hard and clear as do
the first strange happenings of our
childhood. = No new impressions
could efface those which are so
deeply cut. When the time comes
I will describe that wondrous
moonlight night upon the great
lake when a young ichthyosaurus-
i a strange creature, half seal, half
| fish, to look at, with bone covered
I eyes on each side of his snout, and
| a third eye fixed upon the top of
: | his head—was entangled in an In
—dian net, and nearly upset our ca
l’noe before we to wed-it ashore: the
in its own niche amid the trophies:
of the Albany. Finally, I will as 1
suredly’give some account of the
toxodon, the giant ten foot guinea
pis. with projecting chisel teeth,
which we killed as it drank in the
gray of the morning by the side of
the lake -. ,
All this I shall some day write at
fuller length, and amidst these
more stirring days I would tenderly
sketch in these lovely summer ever
nines, when with the deep blue sky
above us we lay in good comrade-
ship among the long grasses by
the wood and marveled at the
strange fowl that swept over us and
the quaint, new creatures which
crept from their burrows to watch %
us, while above us the boughs
of the bushes were heavy with lus-
clous fruit, and below us strange
and lovely flowers peeped at us
from among the herbage; or those
long moonlit nights when we lay
out upon the shimmering surface
of the great lake and watched with
wonder and awe the huge circles
lippling out from the sudden splash
of some fantastic monster; or the
greenish sieam. far down in the =
deep water. Gt some strange crea-
tore upon the confines of darkness.
These are the scenes which my
I will tell of the huge bird that
chased Challenger to the shelter of
.---the rocks.----o.:—
mind and my pen will dwell upon
in every detail at some future day. -
But, you will ask, why these ex-
periences and why this delay, when
you and your comrades should have
been occupied day and night in the
devising of some means by-whiph
you could return to the outer
world? My answer is. that there
was not one of us who was not
working for this end, but that our
work had been in vain. One fact
we had very speedily discovered:
The Indians would do nothing to
help us. In every other way they
were our friends—one might al
most say our devoted slaxes—but
when it was suggested that they
should help us to make and carry"
a plank which would bridge the
chasm, or when we wished to get
from them thongs of leather or
liana to weave ropes which might
help us, we were met by a good-
humored, but an invincible, refusal.
They would smile, twinkle their
eyes, shake their heads, and there
was the end of it. Even the old
chief met us with the same obstb 4
nate denial, and it was only Mare
tas, the youngster whom we had
saved, who looked wistfully at us. *
and told us by his gestures that I
be was grieved for our thwarted
wishes. Ever since their crown
ing triumph with the ape-men they
looked upon us as supermen, who,
bore victory in the tubes Ot
strange weapons, and they believed
that so long as we remained with
them good fortune would be theirs.
A little red-skinned wife and a cave
of our own were freely offered to
each of us I we would but forget
our own people and dwell forever
rpon the plateau. So far all had
desires might be: but we felt well
assured that our actual plans of a
descent must be kept secret, for we
same night that a green water
snake shot out from the rushes.
land carried off in its collsi the Lad reason to fear that at the last
.. F steersman of Challenger’s canoe. I - 4 * * 4-14 - *
Y will tell, too, of the great nocturnal
white thing—to this day we do not
know whether it was beast or, rep
: tile—which lived in a vile swamp
! to the east of the lake, and fitted
i about with a faint phosphorescent
glimmer in the darkness. The In
dians were so terrified at it that
they would not go near the place,
and. though we twice made expedi
---tons and saw it each time. we.
could not make our way through
the deep marsh in which it lived
1 can only say that it seemed to be
larger than a cow and had the
. strangest musky odor. I will tell
also of the huge bird which chased
Challenger to the shelter of the
rocks one day—a great running
1 bird. far taller than am ostrich, with
a vulturo-like neck and cruel head
which made it a walking death. Ae
they might try to bold us by force.
Inpspite of the danger from dino-
saura (which is not great save at
right, for. as I may have said be
fore, they are mostly nocturnal in
their habits) I have twice in the
last three weeks been over to our
old camp in order to see our negro
who still kept watch and ward be-
low the cliff. My eyes strained
eagerly across the great plain in
the hope of seeing afar off the
help for which we had prayed. But.
the long cactus strewn levels’ still
stretched away, empty and bare, to
the distant line of the cane-brake.
“They. will soop come now.
Massa Malone. Before another
week pass Indian come back and
bring rope and fetch you down."
Such was the cheery cry of our er
cellent Zambo. t
(To be continued)_______.
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