LOST TRIBE FOUND.
SAID TO BE ANCIENT CHALDEANS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION- Bt ELECTRIC' TEIEGBAPH COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, December 7.
Miss Cros.sley Datts, who recently arrived in England from India, says: A few years ago slic found an old manuscript in a Buddhist library in Peking about a lost tribe 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas. She resolved to find the tribe, and repeatedly failed, but at last succeeded. They are survivors of the ancient Chaldeans. Their average span of life is 140 to 150 years, and they number GOO. "I did not see a of disease or debility," she said. "Thev must possess strange secrets, valuable to the Western world. Their language is unintelligible, but I have since discovered it to be Chaldean, which 1 have learnt. I am returning to stny longer and try to discover their secrets."
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 9 December 1930, Page 11
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138LOST TRIBE FOUND. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 9 December 1930, Page 11
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