A New Beast

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 37.

It seems strange indeed that in this advanced day there should be discovered a new beast—not the remains of a prehistoric animal, but a beast which is alive to-day in the African forests. McClure's magazine for September contains the first authentic account published in America of the discovery of the Okapi, the strange beast which Sir Harry H. Johnston, K.C.B., Special Commissioner for Uganda, British East Africa, found alive in the forests of Central Africa. According to the discoverer, who writes the article, the Okapi is closely related to the giraffe, altho it has not the exaggerated development of neck and limbs. The frontispiece of the magazine is a picture of the Okapi reproduced in colors, from an original sketch by the author.