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Show WOMAN EXPLORER SEND1REP0RT Makes Thorough Study of Peoples From Siberia to Sumatra Islands. TRACES AMERICAN Believes Ancient Settlers Came by Sea at Very Remote Period. Washington, April 10. After a thorough study of the peoples along tbe fringe of Asia from Siberia to Sumatra in her effort to trace the original American, Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Chal-mers Adams, one of America's foremost fore-most women explorers, in a. communication commu-nication to the National Geographic society today expresses the opinion that tho ancient "Americ" peoples came bv sea, possibly in broken stages, from Asia. Mrs. Adams has just returned to this country. In her communication she says: "This earlier Immigration, however, was at a very remote period, for our prehistoric monuments point to an indigenous culture. A branch of an old world race, these 'early Americans' Ameri-cans' evolved to their highest civilization civiliza-tion on new world soil." Mrs. Adams is confident that a closer study of the Indo-Chinese branch or the yellow race, tlie Malay, Chinese and Tibetan, as compared to our historic civilization, will shed new light on the problem of tracing the original American. Although scientists are said to agree that America was peopled by way of tho northwest, Mrs. Adams doubts that all Americans came this way. In the Philippines, Mrs. Adams Ad-ams saw Ifugaos warriors who resembled re-sembled Aymara chiefs of the Andean highlands in spite of the difference in climate. "This is not strange when we class the Ifugaos as Malays of the Indo-Chinese Indo-Chinese branch of the yellow race and believe that ancient America was peopled from Asia," declares Mrs. Adams. "Not only among certain Malay mountain tribes, but also in westorn China was I constantly reminded re-minded 'of thing's Americ," but never among a low grade of civilization, only when among people of ancient lineage." In olden days, great war canoes were paddled by many oarsmen oars-men from one south sea island to another. an-other. It seems likely that in this fashion men set sail from tho Malay peninsula, with their wives and children, chil-dren, food, household goods and domestic do-mestic animals aboard, and, aided by wind and tide, reache tbe promised land, some palm-fringed isle in the tropic sea." Mrs. Adams has records of many small boats that apparently were blown across the Pacific, one of them a Japanese fishing boat which landed its unwilling immigrants alive and well on California soil two years ago. |