THE ST. MARY BANNER — DECEMBER 2, 1911
Charles Kellogg of California, who, if not a nature-faker, is one of the most remarkable human beings of all time, arrived at Cambridge, Mass., recently from Paris to confer with Professors from Harvard’s department of science, confident that he could convince them of his ability to converse with animals. Mr. Kellogg has Just returned from Europe, where he gave demonstrations of his unique power before professors of the universities of Parts and Berlin. According to Mr. Kellogg, he has accomplished in reality during a life spent in the wilds of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California what the genius of Kipling makes Mowgli accomplish during a childhood passed in the tropical Jungles, but Kellogg has for friends only the animals of the temperate American west. He knows not the languages of the tropical monkey, though he has often talked “bear” with the grizzlies of the Sierra Nevadas. Crickets, squirrels, lizards and rattlesnakes are some of the other animals whose languages Mr. Kellogg speaks fluently. Says Mr. Kellogg:
It was by years of constant observation and associating of sounds with actions that I mastered the animal languages I am familiar with. I began on domestic chickens and gradually extended my study to include such wild animals and reptiles as the bear, the lizard and the rattlesnake. Using a system of hieroglyphics modeled upon the modern Chinese system. I have compiled a dictionary of the
