The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-10-23
PEOPLE LIVING IN TREES.
sIen with the Attributes of Apes.
Philadelphia Times.


Phlddelphid Times.
81 am prepared 10 swallow the whole
story, except the punches in the mouth. D
said gentleman, the other day, TO whom
Prof. George G. Shelly, antbropologist
and member of the Geographical Society,
was recoun,ing the story Of the captuye
Of hairy family, clearly human, but
| anthropoid apes, which we're secured by
himself aud the well. ,.snnwn explorer,
Carl Book, aided by some native soldiers,
in the wilds of Laos Ia the year 1882.
"Thel are," said tho professor, "three
distinct races of men who live ia trees.
These are Indians in South America,
who inhabit the borders of The Orinoco.
Tucuya and MADEIRA rivers; the Veddas'
of Ceylon, and tho Krao. Moniek, Of Laos,
a dependency of Siam. Krao.Moniek
means man. monkey. LAOS is part of the
world which has never been thoroughly
explored and but comparatively little Ia
known about it by geogr:pners and sci.
entists. II coc.ains from eight hundred
u one thousand square miles and lies be-.
tween the fifteenth and twentieth degrees
Of North latitude, North of Siam, East of
the Menam Khong, West of AMMAN and
about four hundred miles Southwest of
Tonquin. The reason why LAOS has not
been thoroughly explored is because al.
died OF malarial fever. That part of the
country II which the Krao lives Is very
swampy, is inhabited only by men who
live in trees and by elephants and snakes
The people live in trees to escape tho
a q Eap nd ,,A
the branches of two trees together and
build huts therein. In climbing the
trees they use their toes as monkey
does. They do not grasp tho tree with
their legs as we do. They do not use
and the rind Of the green cocoanut Their
only weapon is club.
THE BURMESE KINGS HAIRY FAMILY.
"Ten years ago, Carl Book, tho author
of The Man Hunters of Borneo' and My
Travels in Sism,' was travelling In Asia
on behalf OF Mr.. Farini, the English
Barnum, to look for the tail people which
were said to live there. In the Court of
the King Of Burmah he saw and talked
with n hairy family, which were kept by
the King for his Amusement, as European
Kings formerly kept fools and dwarfs.
Book tried In every way to secure them
to take 10 Europe, but he failed. He
offered 100000 for one of them, but
money is no object there; they have
more than they know what to do with.
These people that Book saw were the
grandchildren of hairy couple which
Crawford, who went to Burmah in 1886
as English plenipotentiary, saw there
and OF which he published an account in
his book, "A Mission to the Court of
Ava Crawford said that these people
had been given to the King Of Burmah
by the King of Laos.
"Early in 1882 joined Carl Book ut
Singapore. We went up the Straits of
Ms!scca and made an expedition into
Rumbo, in the Malay Peninsula, where
i: gas reported that q hairy race lived
called Jaccoons, but we did not find
them. We went back to Rangoon aud
thence TO Bangkok, the capital of Siam.
Book had once cured the Prime Minister
of Siam of malignant disorder. This
was the means of procuring us an escort,
twenty elephants and letters to the King
OF Laos. After four months Journey,
paiiiy by land aud patty by river, Ye
reached Kjang- Kjang the capital Of Laos.
IN THE swAMPs OF LAOS.
"Our letter from the King Of Siam
procured us the good Offices Of the King
of Laos, who gave us guides, fresh ele-
plants, an escort of ten native soldiers,
armed with spears and bows and poisoned
asrows. Alter g journey cf E9veFal Hssks
we came to the swamps where tho hairy
people lived, but we had hard work to
catch them or even to zee them. They
are wonderfully alert, their scent is re.
markably keen and they are very shy and
timid. We saw many of their hus built
up in tho branches of trees before we
saw person. At last we surprlsed and
surrounded family, q mother, father
and child, at their meal. We made q
dash for them and captured them. The
parents made little resistance, but the
child fought, scratched snd bit like a
monkey. None of them were clothed in
anything but hair. We took them TO
Kjang.Kjang and there the King refused
to allow the woman to go out Of the
country. He had superstition that it
would bring him bad luck. She is kept
in his Court and treated with high con.
sideration. She appeared to have little
consideration. Shs appeared to have
little aiscsiol. for t.ts child and made no
opposition 10 it's being taken from her.
We started for Bankok with the father
and child. At stopping place called
Chieng- May the whole party was attacked
with cholera. The hairy man We cap.
tured and three Of the escort died. The
rest recovered, though Mr.. Book came
very near dying. We landed in Europe
with the child October 4, 1882 The
child is the child now known as Krao.
We know by her teeth that she Is eight
years old. She talks English and Ger.
man, can read and write aud has deyel.
oped the true feminine love for fine
clothes.
MODEST AED AFFECTIoNATE. II,
:Shs is modest, affoctionate, playG G..!!
and easily managed. E.o1y part of her
body Is covered with hair except her
palms and soles. The hair on her fore.
arm grows upwart,, that Oh her back
grows inward towards the spine and will
form sort OF mars, as her father and
mother had, when she grows older. Her
forehead Is covered with thick, black
hair about three.eights Of 40 inch long.
The hair Of her forehead is entirely dis.
tinct from the hair on her head. Her
hands and feet, though entirely human
in shape, have the prehensile qualities Of
o monkeys hand. She has thirtean DOR
sal vertebrae, and thirteen pairs Of. ribs,
like the chimpapzee, while we have only
twelve. And she has pouches In her
mouth in which she carries nuts and
other food like the apes"
At this point the visitor made the re-.
mark which stands at the beginning Of
this article. Prof. Shelly disappeared
for momerE and returned with the