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Western Star, Issue 2220, 8 July 1898, Page 3

Curious Prehistoric Monkeys.— In Cape Colony and Orange Free State there arc caves which have yielded hundreds of mummified remains of a queer species of six-fingered monkey. The full-grown specimens of this remarkable race have the tail situated high up on the back, from three to five inches further up than on the modern monkey. There are other distinguishing marks, such as two sets of canine teeth, and beards on the females. These may have been mummified human beings, who were formerly held in reverence, or were, perhaps, overtaken by some catastrophe, such as a sudden convulsion of nature, or a cataclysm which entombed them in their caves and thus preserved them, but the secret will never b° revealed.