Abominable Snowmen, by Ivan T. Sanderson, , at sacred-texts.com
10. The East—the "Mysterious" We are now going to make a major
hop across an ocean, from East Africa to what is commonly called
the Orient, and specifically to southeast Asia. This may look
like, and in point of fact is, a long hop spatially, and it may
seem doubly exaggerated because we are going also to skip over
all that lies between the two points specified, such as Arabia,
India, and Ceylon, though they manifestly form sort of
steppingstones along this route. This is nevertheless justified
on more than one count. First, there is no current ABSMery to be
discussed in those intermediate areas, though there is quite a
lot of myth, legends, and folklore, especially in Ceylon.
Second, geologists tell us that there was once a great land-
connection between the two extremes (Africa and southeast Asia),
which they have named Gondwanaland, and it is obvious that lots
of primitive animals still living today are represented by
different but either compa