The Mukwonago Chief

July 20, 1917

“A Saurian Survival”

The dingonek, says J. A. Jordan in the Wide World, is a huge, unclassified aquatic monster. It resembles, in many of its characteristics, the extinct dinosaur, a huge reptile of the Mesozoic period, fossils of which have been discovered by paleontologists in the sandstone strata both of the African and American Continents.

It lives in Lake Victoria Nyanza and its numerous tributaries, and there is no record of the monster having been seen in any other part of the world. Whether it is a descendant of one of the huge prehistoric saurians that has by a process of adaptation -living as it does in impenetrable regions far away from the encratchments of civilized man- continued with but slight modifications through prodigious ages to the present time, or whether it is an unclassified reptile or amphibian, it is equally impossible to say, as no specimen exists either of its bones or of its skin. That this monster does exist, however, there can be no particle of doubt, as the testimony of authoritative eye-witnesses cannot be reasonably discredited.

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