ETHNOLOGICAL DISCOVERY.
"The Times" eorrespondent at Rotterdam tells of the discovery in the Caucasus of descendants of a Scottish landing at Trebizond (on the Black Sea) in the 15th century. They lived in a village in the mountains near Batum. They were blueeyed and red-haired, wore kilts, sporrans, and played on bagpipes made out of pigs' bladders. They spoke a mixture of Gaelic., Georgian, and Tartar. "The Times" eorrespondent offers to escort eth* nologists to the village.
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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 4, 9 April 1920, Page 8
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77ETHNOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 4, 9 April 1920, Page 8
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