THE INCREDIBLE VALLEY
.. In this age of speed and communication it is almost impossible to believe that there was anywhere on earth without news of the second World War, but American airmen, piloting a plane over a new transport route, have discovered a valley in Dutch New Guinea where the natives, they believe, have never seen a white man, let alone heard of the war!
The valley, which is five miles wide and twenty long, is walled in by insurmountable mountains, broken only by a small canyon through which a mountain stream drops 2000 feet. Swamps extend for hundreds of miles outside the mountain ranges.
The plane flew up and down the valley several. times, enabling the crew to count ten villages, with an estimated population of over 10,000. Later a parcel of beads, coconuts, mirrors, and other goods was dropped in the valley; and was duly gathered.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 34, 7 October 1946, Page 7
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148THE INCREDIBLE VALLEY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 34, 7 October 1946, Page 7
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