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pedition to the Congo, live spe-
cimens of the peacock being the
main ObjeCtive„ ,The expedition
was a great Success, and in 1948•
the zoo was able to put on pub-
lic exhibition,- the first living
specimens ever brought out of
Africa.
One of the most remarkable
of all mystery birds is New
Zealand's rare Notornis. Its
story began with the discovery
of some bones in 1847 by a gov-
ernment official, Mr. W. Man-
tell. These were identified by
the great English zoologist, Sir
Richard Owen, as belonging to
a hitherto unknown bird, which
he named Notornis. Since no
living specimens had ever come
to light it was assumed that
this bird, like the Moa, was al-
ready extinct.
Two years later,, however,
Mantel! met some hunters who
had just killed a specimen. Ig-
norant of its rarity, they were,
making a meal of it,, but Man-
tell managed to save :the skin.
Shortly afterwards some Mao-
ris captured another and this
Mantell was also able to secure.
These two specimens were sent
to the British Museum.
Again. Notornis vanished, and
again, nineteen years later, an-
other solitary specimen was
caught by a local huntsman.
This time the New Zealand
Government bought it.for $750
and gave it'to the Dunedin Mu-
seum!'
Flightless Notornis was a
rare bird. Perhaps it was near-
ing extinction, This seemed
more and more likely as years
passed and the fifth specimen
was awaited in vain,
By 1948, just half a century
after its last appearance, No-
tornis was found again. 'This
time, though, it was-not a chance
individual, but a small colony
occupying a remote mountain
valley in South Island.
At once the New Zealand
Government stepped in and
gave complete protectidri, with
heavy penalties for anyone
found in possession of the bird
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when nearly half the shares of the
,tiez Canal Company passed into
British ownership.
It was good business, too, apart
from any question of Empire
security. In one year alone, the
dividend on the $12,000,000 invest-
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Ostrich Swallowed
71 Diamonds --- Officials at a Chicago zoo
were puzzled recently when an
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- died suddenly. They instructed
pathologist to find out why.
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Mystery of The
Congo Peacock
For twenty-three years the
"detective” had waited for this.
moment, There, On the musty,
seldom used, top floor of, the
Pelgiad Congo Museum he had
cornered his quarry at last. He
had solved the Mystery of the
Congo Peacock,
His minct went back to the
time when he had first taken
up the trail al the Congo pea-
cock - and that first and only
clue, the single feather.
Prom 1909 until 1913, the
"detective," Dr, James Chapin
the distinguished. American
naturalist, had spent a good
deal of time in the Belgian Con-
go, studying bird life and col-
lecting specimens for American
museums.
Just before returning home in
1913 he made a collection of
feathers, some of which came
from a native head-dress. Back
in America it was an interesting
exercise to sort out these fea-
there and decide what kind of
bird each one came from. Iden-
tification of single feathers isn't
easy, but Dr. Chapin's expert
knowledge enabled him to place
every feather except one ql
those from the head-drees.
This became a mystery fea-
ther. lVlany times it was taken
out to be examined, and each
time it had to be put back again.
Meanwhile, he began specu-
lating on the unknown owner
of the feather, and decided it
was some kind of game bird,
possibly a pheasant, • which as
yet remained undiscovered. But
Dr. Chapin had to wait until •
1936 before his guess was con-
firmed in a most unusual fash-
ion.
During the 1930's he paid
several further visits to the Bel-
gian Congo and' became friendly
with Dr. Schouteden, director of
the Congo Museum. And it was
one day in 1936, when Dr.
Chapin called to see his friend,
that he stumbled on the solu-
tiont. I
chanced that the director
had, gone up to the top floor
of the building which was used
for storing all kinds of things,
including surplus and unwant-
ed specimens. Dr. Chapin paid
them little attention as he
searched for his friend.
• Suddenly his attention was
arrested - there in a dusty
discarded case he saw 2 birds,
and one of them tarried wing
feathers identical in every way
with ahe mystery feather he had
cherished for twenty three
years.
But here was another mys-
tery. These, two birds, one a
male and the other a female,
were described as Indian Pea-
cocks. And long ago they had
been dumped there on the top
floor because they were ,con-
sidered of no interest - the
museum exhibited only animals
of the Congo.
But to Dr. Chapin, who knew
his birds well, they presented
a further puzzle. He was quite
•certain that, in spite of the name
given to them, no such birds
existed in India. Where, then,
had they come from ? At least
he now knew that the bird
from which his mystery feather
had been taken definitely exist-
, ed.
He was particularly interest-
ed,* too, to see that the birds
were really pheasants. For-
tunately Dr. Schouteden was
able to help by explaining how
the museum obtained the birds,
and between them they gradu-
ally unearthed the whole story.
In the early 1900's an unknown
employee of the Kasai Company,
that operated in the Belgian
Congo, made a collectioa of
local birds, These were mounted
and labelled, and kept in the
company's offices, In 1914 the
company presented this coil ed
tion to the Congo Museum. Most
of the specirnene were renova-
ted and put on show, but not
the Indian Peacocks. •
The truth. now dawned on Dr.
Chapin. These birds must be
Congo rarities that had been
caught and mounted by the
amateur bird collector nearly
forty years ago, and had then
been JriiSnalliOd, Not realizing
that he had brought a hew
species to light, the unknown
collector had not reported his
find,
If all this was true, and as,
sliming the birds had not be-
tome extinct Meanwhile,
eive search should reveal ethers,
In the hope that other residents
in the Congo Might be able to
help Dr. Sehotiteden published
details of the bird in the bul-
letin of the Congo Zoological
Club.
A few certesporidetits did.
Write in froth various Widely
Separated' localities to say they
thOught they had Seen the bird.
There was time, that year
to &gained search, but he
returned in 1937, and with the
help of a native hunter ideated
and shot brit or' two SpeditribriSf
but did not :succeed elaPttila
trig one alive':
After the War the 'New kork
Zoo organized' a collecting eke
,Pialding; it had soon become
Whet it was to reillela all hie life,
his, constant and ineecepitble vice,
Hie eider brother having died.
some denied that he Male Wen
allowed to die a natural
the way was clear for Ismailes
riucc*'aSeten, Moliiinneed died
when pinion was thirty-three, gee
Ismail. Whig succeeded to the title
of Veil or Egypt -a- a title that he
soon got his overlord, trip SultaP
of Turkey, to elevate to that of
Khedive --: he promptly showed
thet none of his habits hind altered;
When within an lueredibly short
Settee of time, he raised the nation
al debt oR Egypt MIA a bare
e1,0,000,000 to over flee Irendvee
millions,
The Suez Canal had been started
by Fereinand de Lessees - titter
lengthy negotiations with the Oa-
mer Egyptian ruler, Said Mohant.
wed - just four years before Is-
mall's ,accession.
first act was to black-
mail the Suez Canal Company in
to parthig up with a great deal.
More money than had been: accepted
by Said zIohammg41 when he
grantee the original concession,
That meant' a lot more money- for
harem and steam yachts
and gambling.
But it was not sufficient, Then
the ,American Civil War cut off
the Ameeipaii„appplies of, cotton to
Lanertsidee - and up went the
demand for -Egyptian cotton. Sud-
denly, the Egyptian cotton crop.
which had been worth onl y
$15,000,000 in Said Mohammed's
day, was worth $75,000,000 a year
to Ismail- and only about 10 per-
cent. of that huge sum was spent
on the mitten!
And the gambling Went on as
wildly as ever. Concessions were
sold right and left, revoked and
re- sold twin at a higher price.
Nothing whieh came in - and what
came totalled tens of millions of'
,
pounds was sufficient to cope
with the frenzied gambling which
was Ismail/s" all-engrossing vice.
Judgments were given against
Egypt's ruler in international
- courts, and both Germany and Ans
tia began to•iimke war-like prepara-
tions to enforce some of the judge-
mente• on behalf of their nationals.,
By 1875, six.years after the French
Empresialaugenie, on board the Ite-
perlal yacht, L'Aigle, had .e1el'enia-. '
Melly opened the Suez Canel,
Egypt was internationally bank-
rupt. Not eten the shadiest, most
reckless of financiers would lend
another penny.
All that the princely gambler
had left; in the , way of security,
were his 177;000 shares in the ,Suez
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Whey Say that the Children born
to /wants ee mixed Wee 411 4Prit)
not the virility 94 beth races, bilt
thele vices,, 'Vetere' may not boar
out that theory, but It Is certainly
true that a man whose upbringing
has tainted hilla With the vices of
two entirely different worlds will
be heed to eigteil ea example of
out - and Out depravity,
Prince Ismail Was such a male
Bore to the traditions of Oriental
despotism, when the slightest wish
of the ruling caste was a thing
Instantly to be gratifiede at what-
ever cost of human dignity and
justice, Ismail was educated to
regard self - indulgence as the
chief prerogative of royalty.
Cringing servants; flattering and
obsequibus palace officials taught
Ismail - as princes had been
taught In the East from time int-
memoriel -- that he was born to
have his most outrageous wishes
satisfied,
But Ismail also came of a fight-
ing race. As well as being great
voluptuaries, his family had also
been great soldiers; and when, by
Oriental standards, Israeli was
'grown to manhood, his uncle, the
Vail Said :Mohammed Viceroy of
Egypt, seint young Ismail to Paris,
to study the modern - Western -
science of war at the French Staff
College.
In his favour, it can be said thgt
he was diligent pupil at the Staff
College - but, the glittering, cor-
rupt Paris of the Second Empire
had other things to teach Ismail
than gunnery and field tactics. .
Besides, there wag. =Pie money
to smooth his path to the very
limits of viciousness. His allow-
ance was, as became a prince a-
princely. Credit was unlimited.
But, in addition, Egypt was, ,at
that time, the happy
ground of shady foreign financiers
-and the Paris of Napoleon III
was the very home of shady tin
!nee
Knowing that Ismail would one
day rule Egypt, the financiers
were quite willing to finance, the
prince's dubious pleasures, ,against
the day when he would be in a
position to grant them valuable
concessions on Egypt.
It was a wonderful Paris, to a
wan with few moral scruples
and a seemingly unlithited purse.
To the strains of Off enbech's music,
fortunes were won and lost at the
tables and, so far as Ismail was
concerned, they were lost. -
His lessee at the gaming tables
astonished even the hardened and
cynical socialites of the day, and
fantastically. Yet the losses only
sharpened Ismall's appetite for
Canal ConmeitY
, This represeetiel just' en half
the total share-holding; since the
Original capital of the Company
had been '200,000,000 francs div-
ided into, 400,000 shares of 50
francs value.
Already, in the six years that the
world's shipping had been passing
through the Canal, It, had been evi-
dent . that those satires held by
Egypt must represent a fabulous
source of national income, an in-
come that poverty-ettlaken Egypt
desperately neeeed:
yet, having gambled away almost
all his country's wealth - and aer-
ilatnelitfy damaged her intern e
tional credit the crazed gambler
was 110W preparing to rob-his coun-
try of her, one certain source of
wealth - by pawning or selling him
shares in the Suez Canal Company.
One day," top 'pribrity coded
telegram reached Britain's Prime
Minister, Benjemin.Disreeli, warn-
ing that the Khedive of Egypt
was on the pOint of parting with
his Caned shrifee: -
• "Informed opinion" in Britian
had ,sneered , at the Quiet because
the French were planning and
building it, but the few years in
which it had been opened had
demonstrated, beyond all argu-
nient, that Britain's empire in, the
East, and her Aastralasien colonies
as well, were now dependent Mein
Britain's 'keeping the Canal from
falling under the control of a rival
power.
The telegram arrived at ft week-
end, after both HMSO of Parlia-
ment had risen. The price that
the Khedive was asking was
$12,000,000 in cash.. What was
more, time telegram stated decieivea
ly, the Khedive had to have the
money within a few hours There
was not even time to SIMMICIII Mem-
bers of Parliament, to vote the nee-
essary Cash to buy the shares.
Disraeli, at that moment, glowed
the highest qualities of statesman-
'ship. On his own • authority he
summoned a ,member of the great
banking firm of Rothschild, and
told the banker bluntly that he
wished to borrow $12,000,000.
When the banker learned 'Why, tie
instantly 'advanced the Miley, A
telegram was sent to Cairo - and
the '177,000 eltares"of the Suee
Canal Company shanged hands,
to become the property of the
BritishG oVe rment.
*Disraeli, when he presented -the
House of Co/lumens with the news,
got nothing but - congratulations
It was a , wonderful , day in the
history of the British Enipire -
S
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