Evening star., 1924-07-07
3 WHITE INDIANS
REACH NEW YORK
Explorer Declares Positively
That His Charges Are
Not AIbinos.

NEW YORK, July 7.-Richard O.
Marsh. leader of the Marsh-Darien
expedition into the Darien region of
eastern Panama. arrived in New York
yesterday on the steamer CaIamares
with three white Indians" and FIVE
ordinary type San Bias Indians. The
lormer are two boys of sixteen and
ten years and IA girl of fourteen
Marsh, who is a civil engineer and
explorer and former charge d'affaires
or Panama, positively asserted that
the Indians were not albinos. AL
blnos. he said have pink ewes. blue
gums and white hair. These Indians
nave hazel eyes. pink gums and blond
halr. ! confidently believe th.v are
ofshoots of the ancient Paleolithic
type. from which the first Nordic dir-
terentation occurred, perhaps 1000
years ago 1t is my belief that this
variation Is being repeated and these
indians. If left to the natural course
OF evolution, would repeat a type sim
liar TO the Nordic peoples OF TODAY. =
Indians Unperturbed.
Marsh and his Indians were scru.
tinized by curious thronGs as they
descended at the dock. Neither the
three WHITES nor the brown Indians
seemed the least perturbed, or even
curious, as the New York sky line ros.
before them. AS the whites are mi.
hors' they were detained at Ellis Is
iann pending the depositinG of bonds
1or their later return to Panama. The
bonds will be procured TODAY and
they will be installed at one Of the
| leading New York hotels. At a din.
ner at the hotel tomorrow night
winch VIII be attended by leading
American anthropologists. the Indians
| VIII be examined and possibly a con.
clusIon reached as to the sound,ocs
or Marsh's theory regarding their der.
| lvation
Explains Two Deaths.
The expedition. which lef, ps,.-.
with '~enty-three men. blacks and
whites, and finished with four, cos,
! the lives OF two scientists-Dr. John
l.. Baer. acting curator of the Smith.
sonian Institution. and Raoul Brin
young Panama scientist, assigned to
the expedition by the Panamaian gov.
eminent
'Dr. Baer died at Caledonia Bav
May II, OF an infection which. 1 an
sure. was transferred from A giant
'howler monkey said Marsh. In
carrying out his researches. DR.. Baer
shot great many monkeys with a
view of Weighing their brains in com.
parison with human brains. On the
upper ChunuaQue River. after W,
| had left Yavisa, the base of supplies
| he shot a huge specimen which hac
been terribly afflicted with the bites
1 of poisonous insect 1t was curious
| phenomenon, and Baer made specia
study of il. Soon afterward he was
! afflicted in the same way. We car.
ried him out, and he died at Caledonia
| Bay eight minutes before an airplane
| expedition with doctors arrived from
Panama. We were compelled to bur,
him in the jungles.
| Dr. c. NJ BREEDER OF the American
Museum of Natural History, and DIR
Herman l.. Fairchild Of the Universit,
| of Rochester, made interesting me
neurological and biolo gical researches
Marsh announced that, If possible
! he would keep his white Indians
| in this country and send them t
| school
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