Bearded turtles are found in th» Sacred Lake of Hongkong, their seagreen hair running from. Ift to 3ft in. length. The Chinese tend the more hirsute specimens and worship them as gods. . All wandering wrecks, according to a long-standing legend, drift to the Sargasso Sea, called the graveyard ot ships, but in 1926 Dr AVilHam Bebe, famous oceanographer, failed to find so much as a spar! . ■ Constant intoxication —day after njay and even generation after generation—. has no harmful effect on the health, length of life or fertility of such creatures as mice, rats, and fowls.
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Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 2
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