The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-01
FINDS CLUES TO
"LOST ATLANTIS"
Enulishman'S Discoveries Renew
Interest in Story of PIato's
Submerged Continent.
TAPESTRIES LIKE PHARAOH'S
Believes Indians of San Bias Hinter-
land Are Survivors of Race Which
Inhabited AtIantis-Had
Narrow Escapes.

Colon, Panama.-The Lost Atlantis
has bobbed up again, this time in
Panama. An Englishman, Mitchell
Hedges, recently made a two days
Journey into the mountains of the San
Bias hinterland, and came back with
his suspicious that the C~hauquanaqua
Indians are the survivors of the once
proud inhabitants of Plato's sub
merged continent.
He brought the suspicious in the
shape of tapestries with designs so
much like those of Pharaoh's wives
that he must have the experts of the
British museum and of all the world
to pronounce upon them. Incidentally
he put President Harding's name on
the nap in the shape of a new"
mountain, some 5000 feet high King
George got another of similar altitude,
and Doctor Porras a whole range
The explorer had the usual narrow
escapes from imminent death by sea
and land, and has set tongues wagging
about the likelihood of the isthmus
being the tail-end or head-end of the
Atlantean continent.
Both Sides of the Case.
Although an American ethnologist,
William H. Babcock, has buried At
1antiS for the last of many times in
his present book, Legendary Islands
of the Atlantic" published by the
American Geographical society, this
latest resurrection is likely to stir the
prota gonists of the missing link be-
tween Gibraltar and Panama to life
again also.
The biggest friend of the long-lost
isle is a German, Herr Prof. Fro
benius of Berlin, who %traversed much
of West Africa to see if there were
not some leavings of the lost there,
and he professed to be quite con-
WINGED that there are. Professor
Weiner of Harvard, from a study of
the similarities of plants and animals
of Africa and South America, inclines
to the hypothesis that the som of Ham
one passed dry-shod from the Sene-
gal to the Amazon, or vice versa.
1t Is understood that If Hercules
had not gotten hOme-sick when he had
the job of holding up Mount Atlas
for a while he might have beaten Co
lumbus by some 1000 years. and that
too, by walking over to Colon, but the
Greek explorer had enough of it with
that little job around Morocco, so he
set up his pillars and went home to
his wife, thereby leaving dissension
among antiquarians for 30 centuries.
Tapestries in Evidence.
Mitchell Hedges comes as the eli
max of a number of explorers who
have been dipping into the San Bias
problem, and maybe he has the key.
He has the advantage of the labors
of many predecessors in his task. He
has the tapestries, and they look like
the work of the Hebrew children who
made clothes for Rameses-or maybe,
he says, they are like Aztec work.
AT any rate they are like the work
of other people than mere Indians;
and how could those mountaineers
get those designs except by having
them handed down from the folks
who crossed the sea when it wasn't
any sea at all?
Moreover, the men in the mountains
wore great big earrings of solid gold.
Who taught them to dig for gold? The
problem is truly formidable, and one
may watch the chronological journals
now with interest.