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IN THE CAVLS OF THE BATS

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY IN OKLAHOMA

BY A GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PARTY.

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Like a story of wonderland is the tale of caves told by members of the Oklahoma geologicai survey, which has penetrated into the wild lands nt long delivered from the sway of the Indian tribes. Immense caverns ex- tending beneath level valley lands, in whose weird depths are sheltered mil- lions of bats, are among the worders they have recorded.

Hints of the strange things to be found in the western part of the new territory have come at times to those who have been acquainted with the Indians. But the red men were jeal- ous guardians of their lands while they held thein, and few except those who were members of the tribes by blood or marriage were permitted to venture into the hill country,

Rumors of immense mineral de- posits, of strange waters and of curious tantasies of nature led to the organiza- ticn of an expedition ied by Dr A. H. Van Vleet, and ‘its explorations, just reported to the State authorities, have given new interest tu what was believ- ed to be mere'y another prairie ter- ritory.

It was in the valley of Salt Creek that Dr. Van Vieet tound the pheno- mena that interested him most. A few ofthose who had rushed into the territory when it was opened have found their way to the valley,and there are some farms and ranches on what is practically a broad plain. Apparently the valley stretches un- broken for miles, with no hint of any aonder of nature concealed within it. But one who attempts to ride across it, as members of the survey party did, wil find his way bared in almost the centre by a great chasm, from 300 to 400 feet deep, whose sides are formed of great bluffs of red clay and rock and ey psurit,

In the boito. of his flows Salt Creek. It well deserves its name, tor its waters have a strong flavor of brine, It is a small stream in summer and in winter, but imthe spring, wheu the floods come, it sweeps over the bottom of the canyon and becomés a:most a river.

The gorge it has formed gives abundant evidence of its past power. Hundreds uf years ago found its channel through the valley and cut a deep way for itself through the red clay on the surface. It progress down- ward was stayed by a ledge of rock on which the clay has formed, but this, too, yielded to the wash of the waters, and then the stream found a yielding substance almost as soft as clay. Underneath the rocks was a great deposit of gypsum,extending for miles. Through this in flood after flood the waters of the stream cut,until at length they found a bed more solid than that above, on a great flooring of rock. Ifthe waters could not go deeper, however, they could go sidewise through the gypsum, and tiffs they did. Floods that came down in the year: eddied against the side walls and tore out new places for themselves. Gradually the gypsum was worn away until the creek had made for itself tar- tastic channels in darkness far vutside its bed. Vhe waters fairly sported in this work. When they cut away the sup ports.of ‘masses of gyrsum these fe! below, only to be washed awav or to form pillars in pas- sages around which the waters might swirl. Towers and minarets of curious design were left on the walls of the gorge, making it beautiful as well as wonderful.

Dr. Van Vleet’s party explored these caves as far as they could. In some places the entrances were So low that it was difficult to crawl into them, but once inside great chambers opened up and the torches used by the party could not give a view of the roof. Sometimes the course of a cavern cuuld be followed for mics along the creek, with large and small

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But exploration of their depth was found impossible. When the party ventured into any of these caverns wih torches they disturbed inhabitants th t had never before had such visitation and resented it. Great swarms of bats,winged and furry things, swooped down from the roofs and in from the passages into which the light penetrat- ed, flew around the explorers heads and even dashed blindly into the flame of the torches.

The men were compelled to fight fiercely against the hord of small things. They were worsted, too, in the fight; for the best they could do was to stand their ground. If they attempted to venture into the passag-s they could see opening further along they would awaken new hordes of the winged things and their foes would be multiplied two-fold and sometimes ten- fold.

They were fairly stifled by the on- slaught. ‘Their torches were several times extinguished and they had to grope their way to light, and they feared to venture into the depths of the caves lest they should be left with out means to guide them back into the stream.

Dr. Van Vleet was greatly impress. ed by this spectacle of millions of the winged ones setting at defiance the efforts of his party, and he made a study of the bats. He remainéd several nights in the canyon to ob:e ve what they would do. While daylight lasted there were no signs of life in the gorge. It was only when one flared a torce against the fantastic sides and roofs of the caves that there was any indicaticn of the life that lay in the cinyon

But when the first signs of darkness came, then the canyon showed | its people. With the shadovs would come solitary bats winging out of the caverns, like scouts in the fore of an army. They would wheel up among the rocks and down again, weirdly circling, as thovgh nct yet certain of tke course thcy wou'd take or of the ligt to guide ‘Seni.

As the shadows deepened others would join these first few adventurers, and the gorge would become all alive with the silent things that swept around and never seemed to alight. Then, as darkness came, the great army of bats would begin their swift flight out from the depths in which they had hidden themselves.

In great clouds they would appear. Thousands on thousands would emerge from every opening in the canyon. Thicker and thick they would grow in the air above, until it seemed to the watchers below that a great cloud had settled over the canyon. It could be seen that they were leaving for the plains above to take along flight in search of food, but the number in the gorge would not seem to grow less. Minute after minute the black things would continue to come out of the dark openings in the cliffs, not checking, but all the while wheeling upward,until one might doubt whether alk this life were real and believe the furry things were passing and repassing through some subterranean way, like the soldiers in a stage army For more than half an hour each night Dr. Van Vieet and his party saw his army of little things pass out, and hemg sc enufic men they tried to com- jute what the number must ke. They topped when they cams to the mil- ins, for they agreed the number could ve nothing tess.

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back. Fitst ‘theré’ would be ‘the few scouts, the ones that dreaded the light most, and that delved inte the cave depths tofind security. Then would come the vanguard, and then the great body, a cloud again, ha tening as the first rays of the sun shot across the plain to find their places before they were blinded by the orb that furnishes lite and lighc to other things.

When daylight came in full the gorge would be still again, and the vision of the bat army to those who had observed it as more like a visit to fairyland than a real sight in the days of the material life.

There were other wonders, too, to be found in the canyon of Salt Creek, From out of the ledges on the side would spurt Cleu $)).1 igs Of Walkr that had found a course through ihe rocks and the gypsum until they could vain freedom in the creek ved. ‘The water was Clear and inviting to those wno were thirsty and could tind no- thing but salt waters of the creek. But those who drink it regret, for it is the “gyp” water, which brings woe.

from other ledges of sandstone come other springs of water, pure aud sparkling. ‘lhe suffering traveller who essays to quench his thirst in these tinds only more thirst,from somewhere they bring the brine that flows through the creek.

Where Salt Creek leaves the hills the bluffs nse almost three hundred teet above the creek bed, and at the top cf the two massive ledges of gyp- sum are scarcely a quarter of a mile apart. Some person has stretched a a stout wire from iedge to ledge, on which a framework on a pulley sup- ports a swing. Scarting from one bark, the swing with its occupant is whirled downward across the canyon almost a quarter of a mile, and then as far upward toward the opposite ledge as its mo- mentum will carry it, then back toward the starting point, and back and forth, b&ck and forth, each trip shorter, until it comes to rest suspended above the middle of the canyon, fifteen feet from the rovad.,

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CURIOWS DWARFS IN THE PHILIPPINES.

President McKinley recently received from Professor Dean C. Worcestor, of the Philippine Commission, a very in- teresting account of the curious plack dwarfs oj the Philippines. There are about 25,000 of these pigmies, he says and they are known as Negritos. They are to be found of pure race in the provinces of Bataan, Luzon and also 1a Northeast Mindanao. Some of these have been gathered into settlements by missionaries, who are trying to civi-

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jthey have no ¢alvés to their legs. Each big toe is widely separated from the others, and the three outer toes of €.ch foot are turned inward,as in sume monkeys. ‘heir feet are large and

over the scalp in regularly scattered clumps. Theirheads are apparently too large for their bodies, and the mop of wool which they wear accentuates this effect. Somonkeylike are they that they can counterfeit apes in a startiing manner, their jaws projecting far beyond their noses and their fuces deeply wrinkled, like monkeys.’

The men wear no clothing except a cord drawn around the waist, trom which Fangs a small piece of goth! where?sthe women wear an apron made from the bark of a tree. Marriage among the Negritos is_ in dissoluble, and only one wife is allow- ed. Mat imonial customs vary among them, but usually the cermony of mar- riage is unlike anything cf the kind to be seen anywhere in the world. It takes the form of a test of marksmanship, the young woman herself being the target.

Sne stands ab sut fifty yards fro n her lover, holding unper her arm a mass of palm leaves, He fires a blunt arrow, and if it passes through the leaves without striking the girl the two are married. If he fails the urion is © for- bidden, but as the Negritos are very expert with the bow such a thing rare- ly happens.

The Negritos are very independent, and neither the Spanierds nor the Malays have ever been able to subdue them. Ofa gentle nature, they never kill a human being wantonly, but they regard with suspicion the Christianized natives, who often maltreat them. it attacked they defend themselves vigorously, and in retaliation will rob and destroy the fields of their enemies or even assail their villages at _ night, To their children they give the names of birds, plants or insects, They can- not, count above ten, and, while able to distinguish colors well, have no words for them. Ifa plague breaks out, sveh as cholera or smallpox,

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