DISCOVERER OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
Sir Henry Seton-Karr, who has found a wonderful boy clairvoyant in Norway, has a notable faculty for "finding things." "I have a wandering taint in my Scottish blood," says Sir Henry, and his wandering® have taken him to the birthplace of the human race. One day, while in pursuit of a lion, he found himself in the veritable Garden of Eden. Stumbling upon a paleolithic instrument, he made a careful scientific examination, and concluded, to his own complete satisfaction, that ho was standing in Eden. For aught he knows, says Sir Henry, ho might have found among the thousands of paleolithic instruments, tho very spja.de with which Adam digged ! Although this story may be regarded as apocryphal, it is no.t to be despised, for Sir Henry is a noted antiquarian. He Is also a famous big game hunter, a sport he still pursues in spite of his fifty-four years. His title was his reward for the contribution to the Army in South Africa by raising the sharp-shooters. He was born in India, on the ovc of tho Mutiny, and is fond of speaking of the service his father rendered tho Empire by preventing a rising of the native in the Southern Mahratta country. Like Queen Victoria Sir Henry Seton-Karr can write with both hands, and he is probably the only man in England who can write -with three pens at once. At Oxford he rowed sixty-foUr boat races in four years. If you ask him what is the saddest sight to bo n**cn in London he will say : "The grizzly at the Zoo, his claws torn to the quick, restlessly pacing behind 10ft. of iron bars ; or the golden eagle, whose natural home is space, sitting in a cage, a lump of solitary misery."
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 2
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