lashed down a couple of trees as large as my leg, and also cut off the leg of a poor fellow named Tom Brennan, who was formerly a section hand on the Iron Mountain railroad, and last year worked on the section below Benton. Not wishing to see the monster suffer I again have the command to fire and this volley ended the gowrow’s suffering. The enraged farmers then sprang upon the dead beast with their axes and, more in anger than sorrow, hewed him into pieces. I then immediately returned to Blanco and the next day, having transacted my business, left for Little Rock.     “From a careful examination of the photograph which I made of the monster I am convinced it is a pachyderm, and is a combination of the hyaenidae and rhinocerotidae. It has incisor and canine teeth which apparently show that it has some relationship to the ceratorhinus of the rhinocertidae genus. These animals were supposed to have long since disappeared from the earth. Their remains are found in the miocene formation.     “In all probablity this specimem was the last of its kind, and I regret very much that it was willed, as it would have been of vast interest to scientists, and would have afforded a rare opportunity for gathering trustworthy information as to the characteristics of prehistoric animals. I have, however, made arrangements for gathering its bones and for their shipment to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.”