Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — The Mexican Centaur. [ARTICLE]

The Mexican Centaur.

We were shown last week by Dr. Collins, a resident of Little River'County, in this State, one of the most remarkable phenomena of nature we ever saw. It was nothing less than the body of a wellformed red deer, with a head that resembled a babboon, and bad a suit of long, brown, shaggy beard. He says that it had been seen in the neighborhood frequently by several parties just after the war, but for some time had been missing, until one day lately his wife and a negro girl, who were returning from a visit to a neighbor’s, discovered the horrible creature a short distance from them standing in the woods: they became alarmed, and hurried to the house, when Dr. Collins took his gun and started in hot pursuit of the phantom, which he soon found and killed. He says when he was aiming at it its large eyes seemed to melt in pity and compassion, as though it was aware of its dreadful danger. Ire had no sooner fired than the creature leaped high in the air, and uttered a most heart-rending scream. The Doctor says it must be a species ot the Mexican Centaur, as described in legend as existing in certain portions of Mexico. —Jeferaon (Ark.) Republican.

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