THE TAILED MAN OF MECCA.
Colonel du Corret, in a report to the French Academy of Sciences, says : —‘ * * When I was at Mecca, being often at the house of an Emir, I spoke to him of the supposed race of tailed men, called Ghilanes, which are thought to live in the interior of Africa. I doubted the existence of the race, but in order to convince me of my error the Emir ordered before me one of his slaves, who, he said, was a tailed Ghilane. An examination proved that the slave, whose name was Belial, had a tail about three inches in length, and almost as flexible as that of a monkey.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XVIII, 31 October 1896, Page 578
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113THE TAILED MAN OF MECCA. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XVIII, 31 October 1896, Page 578
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