SEARCH FOR LOST TRIBE.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 271, 17 January 1929, Page 1

SEARCH FOR LOST TRIBE.

IN CENTRAL ASIA. A well equipped expedition of expert Russian and German explorers has disappeared from civilisation to seek in Central Asia the whereabouts sv u lost tribe, the members of which according to local legend, are credited with supenatural powers, and whose discovery is expected to yield important scientific results in respect of our knowledge of primitive civilisation and its customs, states a Vienna message. Many former Russian explorers have sought to locate this lost -tribe, but without success. This, however, is not) to be wondered at, seeing that the search has to be made among the deep, grrge-like valley cut into the Pamr range of mouncut into the Pamir range of mounworld,” in that district where Chinese, Kashgar, Afghanistan and India come closest together. At the end of June last ‘the expedition left the border of the Republic of Khirgistan with their caravan, and the last news likely to be heard from them for seme months was obtained in Moscow a few weeks ago. They are now traversing the uninhabited plateau on the Pamirs, guided by members of the Tadjik tribe, who aie well acqupainted with these regions. After - crossing the Alai mountains, they will enter a number of “Death Valleys,” so called because of their treacherous climate and exceptional extremes of heat and cold, in order to reach a region where even the few local nomadic tribes hesitate to go with their wives and animals, preferring to leave them behind in healthier spots.

The expedition hopes to return early next summer, not only with news of this lost tribe, but with valuable anthropological and ether information.