Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-10-21

South America, and the petri-
fed stump of the Tree of Life"
still stands on its site. DR..
William c. Farabee, curator of the
American section of the University of
Pennsylvania and leader of the ANA
zon expedition, which sailed from
Philadelphia on March 10, 1918, and
is still forcing it's way through hither-
to UNEMPLOYED South American regions,
has found both 1t and several differ
ent tribes Of Indians 30 isolated, so
remote from the rest Of the world that
they are essential primitives living
in their stone age and handing down
from father to son in the way of all
primitives, myths and legends that
have an oddly familiar ring, says the
New York Sun.
These tribes live in the Businesses
Of the mountains on the border line
between British Guiana and Brazil,
and their small settlements are about
ten miles apart.
When the expedition set out from
Philadelphia in it's own vessel it was
most completely equipped for every
exigency that might arise in the prose
cution of its project. Later it was
deemed inexpedient to travel with so
much impedimenta and the load was
lightened that the party might not be
restricted to the water routes.
Arriving at Para they proceeded by
commercial craft up the Amazon, its
northern afluent, the Negro, and from
the Negro into the Branco, arriving
at Boa Vista on October II, 1913.
From thence they travelled indie
pendently by canoes or overland. The
way became exceedingly difficult when
they tried to get through the Urara-
Guerra river, as it wound further up
the mountains, and the explorers
turned back eastward on foot through
British Guiana.
Three New Tribes.
On this trip Doctor Farabee discov-
cred three news tribes-the Porocatos,
the Ajamaras and the Zapacas-who
were primitive men never before Wis
tied by twentieth century whites
Like most of these primitive In
dams, their bamboo houses are i'm
maculately clean and not unat-
tractive, nor is a woman averse to
posing in her home, as may be seen
from the illustration.
The return of this stage of the ex-
petition was accomplished without
mishap, and late in October they
reached the southern outpost of Brit
ish Guiana at Melville's ranch, where
they sought the cooperation of the
British magistrate, H. P. c. Melville,
and his able associate, John Ogilvie.
Doctor Farabee persuaded Mr.. Ogil-
vie to join the expedition in the ardu-
Gus task it now proposed-an invasion
into the Tumac-Humac range of noun
tains which divide Brazil from the
Guianas and which up to that time
never had been penetrated.
AS they advanced deeper into the
wilderness they found tribes who
knew nothing of white men or of civ
ilizatiOn. These tribes-the Pari-
kutu, Wai-wai, Wai-me, Chikena,
Katiawan, Toneyan, Diow, Kumayenas
and Ukukwanas-are simple people.
They are like children, beautiful
children, with love for color and en-
1oyment, and they are happy, as only
children can be. They have no metals
or gems Of any sort. They hew
everything they use out of solid
granite, and they have few utensils.
They grow cassava, grind it between
stones and bake it into a kind of
bread. They subsist on fruits and
vegetables and game They strike
fire by rubbing stones together. They
are, in word, "savages."
Women Fine Creatures.
The women of the tribe are magnifi-
cent creatures, like shining bronze
statues. with blue-blaek hair and won
derfui eyes, the men are splendid Of
body. ana keen of mind. They
weave kind of coarse native cloth,
and into this they Irvine the feathers
of the macaw and fashion for them
Velves moot marvellous cloaks. aprons,