New Britain herald., 1928-07-20
EXPLORERS G0 TO
 AFRICAN JUNGLES
Andican. Party to Seek Cradle
 of Mankind There

Cape Town. South Africa. July 20 tA-American explorers are to brave the dangers Of the unknown Kala- hari desert in the hope of finding the birthplace of mankind.
 i The party. headed by Dr. c. Err nest Cadle of Denver, anthropolo- gist of the Colorado Museum of Natural History. Dr. Will J. Cam eron. Chicago dental expert. who is sponsoring the expedition. and Pro- fessor Richard l.. Manner. geologist of the University of Texas, is meet ing several leading scientists of African universities at Durban and Port Elizabeth and is then proceed ing to Tonges.
 \ From there the scientists will set ! forth into the unexplored heart of the great desert which lies in British Bechuanaland between the Zam- besi and the Orange rivers. and I which they believe is the unspoiled | cradle of the human race. Their | supposition is supported by the re- cent discovery at Tonges. on the edge of this vast territory, of two | prehistoric human skulls, said to be the oldest yet found.
 Il T believe that in the desert we shall find ourselves face to face with prehistoric people and animals of the Stone-Age type, projecting themselves right into our modern \ period" said Dr. Cadle. Africa has undergone no glacial changes such as have from age to age come over the rest of the globe. She is now. as always. the lavish mother nursing and feeding primitive man. in mild and temperate climate with food bountifully within the reach of his hand. He can live all his life without having to move be- yond mile of his jungle home That is why think Africa is the natal place of humanity.
 "Asia. where some people place mans beginnings, has in my opin- ion, always been altogether too in- hospitable to cradle the race. But in Africa we find today the entire history of the race unfolded. from primitive to agricultural and pas. toral tribes. and so on, up to the acme of modern civilization"
 Three years ago Dr. Cadle pene. trated the fringes of the Kalahar desert. There he found humans a the lowest end of the human scale living side by side with the highes types of anthropoids. These bush men are not blacks. but have vel low skins like Mongolians and { cast of countenance combining Mon Eolian and Negroid characteristics Disease and deformity are unknowr to them and there are no menta detectives among them.
 Some of the anthropoids wall upright like a man." relates Dr. Ca de. with their arms touching tn, ground. The humans. on the othe hand-the bushmen and pygmie who are the pure hunters of tn race-have arms which are eigh inches longer than those of civilized man and when they squat on thei havnches their bodies touch tn ground behind. and their ape-lik arms trail on the ground. Surel this Is significant that somewher near dwells so-called missing link.
 It Is this strange ape-man-th missing link-that Dr. Cadle am his fellow scientists hope to fln' among the fierce Vaalpenas trib in the desert. They are a busl tribe of small people. but not pyg mics, and have never been seen b white men. although the Hottentot and the Dechuanas know of then and report that they are wild an treacherous people.
 The expedition. prepared to sta two years. is supplied with up-to date equipment. including two moto trucks fitted with caterpillar trac tors. . mechanical refrigerator an wireless apparatus.