WHERE DID THE SNAKES GO?
' :-. —. . :.» :. • • ••: ' ■> ■'.-• Where' did the snakes: go when St. Patrick,, in the ' legend, drove them from Ireland? Maybe they came to Ireland's-utter opposite, on the other side of the world, off the coast of Korea. It is a small island held by Japan, which is so completely infested with poisonous snakes that human beings simply cannot stay on the place. Although it would be an ideal site for a lighthouse,- the Japanese have left the island to its' half million venomous inhabitants. Small-Dragon-Mountain Island, as it is called, lies at the entrance to the Qulf Of Pechili, eight nautical miles from the westernmost point of the province of the' same name. In 1931, when an expedition of Japanese scientists was sent, to Manchuria to study the natural resources of the country, the biologist. who led the party was instructed to investigate Small-Dragon-Mountain Island as a possible site for a lighthouse. The investigators, although warned that the island was overrun" with venomous snakes, were more than as.tonished at the snakes' paradise which they discovered. They are so numerous that it is impossible for a person to walk even' a few feet without encountering them, arid ithey .are easily captured by means of a forked stick: " '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 12
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207WHERE DID THE SNAKES GO? Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 12
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