The Detroit times., 1914-10-03
D REMAINS
|R WALTERS
YAMAZONS
r Lange Tells Of Exhum-
kelstons and Pottery
on Island
FOUND TRIBE
OF SEMITIC ORIGIN
- Experience With Mon
h kIIigators and Fierce,
Woif-Like Fish -

y
YORK. Oct. z-Returning
~ South American voyage In
= years OF the seventeenth cen
~ are told Sir Walter Raleigh
~ 70 the queen that a landing
bonn his ship has been attacked
~ mouth Of q stupendous river
arm OF women warriors. Ac-
~ he suggested the name
~" for the stream.
Algot Lange believes that he
discovered this lost tribe. among
the burden or war and indus
, borne entirely by the female.
|Rge recently returned from a
voyage or exploration through
}khty river jungle.
kange started from New York
over eighteen months ago on
of investigation for the Uni
of Pennsylvahfa. Arriving at
Janeiro. he severed his rela-
vjth the university. delivered q
before the Rio Engineers
=. the resources OF the Amazon
q and was commissioned by
18llfAn government To make
4 Investigations and reports.
Veeks later he arrived In the
Para, made his way to the
q the Amazon and began
Dorf OF the labor undertaken
Braxilian government had to
Nv with mapping unknown
D tributaries and looking over
1uo0d resources Of the region.
~ explorations Of the Tocan-
~ = southern tributary of the
y and found q stream from
~ miles wide, capable Of float
11<1eUhip for hundreds OF miles
coz1rse. and almost uncharted.
10 other completely or little
1IverB In plenty--not so great
ocantins, but still. great
= headwaters OF the Moju. one
= rivers, he found his unknown
- Ararandewara Indians. q
- Semfagricultural group Of
1noro stark-nEde savages. who
er seen q white man before
y IN terrDr Of the explorer
Darty.
inost significant thing about
eaid DR.. Lange to q World
was the, entirely Semitic
q the physiognomy. This
>onomblance to which imagin-
n necessary. but a striking
tint could not be overlooked
>r< rudimentary observer 1t
0nporenf n the handsome
1 ond women a. In the old,
x6 ne distinctly the sense Of
0pon an Asiatic people"
&<urandewaras treated the ex-
best they knew how and let
his way when the visit was
nching him FIRST the ways
d The fearful Jungle and point
- him the wonderful woods
Ind there.
~ the "a new kinds Of hard
@D> nrst shown me by these
aid the explorer. "They
not the trees to me when I
No them understand what
rlfed and tried to show their
tory one Of these woods is
more valuable than the ma
X which grew In the region In
|6pndence.s
He most interesting Of DR..
s discoveries were at the month
Amazon, on q big. fat island.
r On by vast herds Of cattle In
\ season and washed over by
\ - the wet. This Is the island
no. Of about 120 by 100 miles.
rlnx0u, which Is over 200 miles
\ this point. has built the island
I01n It's mighty store OF alluvial
N and the sea, lighting TO hold
= 10 underwriting the island.
the river builds II.
bland fs never more than q
6hes out OF the water" DIR.
Imported. "At high tide II
considerably. and when the
x - at Hood no island is visible
Che mounds, on onerof which
cipal story plays. One of
excavated pretty thoroughly
I'D the bones and pottery OF a
AIch has struck me as dis
Aniatic. Several local scien-
- have warned me Of the con
~ possibilities -of such n
6nk, but even this does not ~