TREE MEN.
A controversy' has taken/platfe America as to a race of TO'fmitf i[he Malay Archipel ago, who aye said to live in trees. Professor J. t)/ Dana, ofTale College, ’writes^—^There ; doubt in regArd to the. existence of xliel. small degraded v race jin?; Archipelagp, their liVirig m tj^eifyraSii out fixed dwellings, their;gpin|f’ nak&d, leading the life of a _ the most disgusting kin'd:*- ’ saw one of tjhem when Wilkes Expedition. Williams, who has lived forty years in Eastern 1 Asia, .says that the French found such ;|>e(mle/ in the ’ interior of Carhboduj a r fiill' of which is given in.; Mondes. They lived 1 in trees, to bQ out of the way of dfcher ; : beasts. : .*7 ‘’.■«
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Kumara Times, Issue 620, 23 September 1878, Page 2
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