The Washington herald., 1907-06-23
By FREDERIC ]. HASKIN

| Sheltered by some pocket in the hills,
living in seClusiOn in some quiet valley,
or guarded by impenetrable grasses in
some far everglade. there are here and
there throughout the United States groups
OF people that are peculiar and distinctive
from the rest Of the inhabitants. Segre-
eating in close communities they have
preserved for centuries traits and char
Facteristics Of some remote and often un-
known ancestry, and through tradition
Olly can they trace their past.
The Zuni Indians. close kin TO the
Aztec race that peopled Mexico when
Cortez came, still hold themselves dis
tinctive and apart from other Indian
tribes. and are stil the striking people
that Coronado found IN I5H when he bore
the banner Of Spain through the far
Southwest over ever-beckoning purple
hills and barren wastes Of sand. On the
tops Of enchanted mesas. in rough gashes
of naked mountain sides, and occasional
ly at the edge OF a plain, the pueblos OF
the Zunis have stood for centuries Here
they were wont to defend themselves
against their invading enemies, and the
impreguable stone homes they built have
been rescued and preserved for their his
toric value. The small remnant Of this
ancient race still treads out its harvested
corn after the manner Of the Egyptians
'r.
as crude as those Of the early Israelites.
OF Egyptian cast Of features. and u a
color slightly darker than the Chinese
the Zuni ancestry, has been speculatld
upon FOR several centuries The analogy
between the Aztec and Asiat!c theories Of
creation is marked and as they keep 10
themselves. are self-sustainiug by means
Of their corn fields and focks Of sheep.
they manage still 20 keep racial character
lsucs that are interesting and puzzling 10
ethn9logists
Descended from Pirates.
on Newmanz Ridge. IN Hancock Coun-
ty. Tenn. overlooking the beautiful
Cunch River Valley, lives one Of the most
mysterious people in America. Through
their AngIo-Saxon neighbors. or through
writers of romance, the name Malunge0U
has been given them. a name that the
better element reseuts. They resemble IN
features the Cherokee Indians. and yet
have q strong Caucasian cast Of cOunte-
nance that makes their claim 70 Portu-
Euese descent seem probable They came. I
50 q legend runs. Of a band Of Portuguese
pirates. who long years ago were wrecked
on an unknown coast. became adopted
into an Indian tribe. and were part of the
Che-okees. who two or three centuries
later refused 90 60 West and live .0n the
reservation that kindly government
offered when Il needed their Eastern /
lands
In the 'Tractado das Uhas Novas"
written by Francisco De Sousa. Il 1870. .
and published in San Miguel. Azores only /
about forty years ago. there is an account
~ a Portuguese colony which is said o .
lave existed ON the eastern coast of /
British North America over l00 years be- .
fore jamestown was settled. This colony
was known as Terra Nova. and from
1870 90 1872 the records az Lisbon show
that commissions were regularly issued /
o. Glspar and Miguel Corte Real as gov
orH0rs of the settlement one hundred F.
years before Columbus came to these !
SHORES it is claimed that the BasIUes +.
then great saafaIa-s. but now "a m0g1t7ir
people of Spain, came 20 these shores and F.
lent much of their language 90 Indian F..
dialects. From tie C1rte Real settlements .
and from these RasQues speCulating his f.
t0r.8ns have tried On draw an ancestry for F..
the MaILngeouS. Whatever the origin F.
may be. us people they were practically /
0UtrGsts for many wears They were /
there I'm the Tennessee mountains when .
John SEWER organized the State of Frank .
lin. and We're supposed hy their neighh0rs /
60 be- M00rs. In 1884 they were denied I
the right of suffrage because they Were
accounted free persons Of color" and .
for many years suffered this political in 4
dignity. As a natural consequence. they
became lawhrcakers and evadors of the
newer processes Of civilization. Il is +
claimed that there is also negro blood
IN the MalgngcoD strain
Remnant Of Croatan Indinas.
Tn Robson County. y c.. lives the
remnant Of the once powerful Croatan In
dian tribe that welcomed Amadas and .
Barlowe when they came 70 Roanoke Is
land on an exploring expedition in 1884.
and of whom Hakluyt wrote i'm his "Voy-
ages" The explorers claim to have found
several auburu-haired children among
them. the Indians explaining that they
We're descendants Of some ship-wrecked
white men picked mp on the coast Of
Secotan twenty-s,x years before These
modern Cro1tans are even more pro-
i'm the proof of an Auglo-Slxon
strain. and Yet they have not inter
married with their white neighbors /
There are several hundred Of these In
dams. som, 0t whom have light hair. 9TH
ars have blue eyes. and the names DCrr
and Dare are said 10 be common among
them. Because Of this historians have
1educed the theory that the remnants Of
Whites colony, which disappeared from
Roanoke Island between 1881 and 1880
were taken away into the camps Of the
'roatan or H5teras indians. and that
Auani1S Dare his wife, and little Vir-
slnia. gave their name and their color
ng TO the tribe as we find Il to-day.
In the wild country back Of Salisbury.
\. c., there has lived for many years a
group Of thin. hollow-eyed. poor whites"
known locally as "Clay-eaters." They
take the clay from the fields and ravines
where the rain has washed it down in
pellet form, and eat it voraciouslv. Men.
and children indulge I'm the habit.
A Philadelphia physician who was there
'n hunting trip some years ago. decided
20 investigate the matter. since he found
hat children would leave their meals un-
asted TO eat the clay. An analysis Of the
'oil proved that it contained a large per ]