Show WHITE RACE IN DISCOVERY MADE THAT RESEMBLES ONE OF HAGGARD S STORIES tribe of caucasians who dwell in a connary bich in vegetable and mineral wealth but who kerent intrusion of the strenuous civilization of the L A de clairmont united baates army late of the philippine scouts who has returned from manila tells of the existence in the interior of mindoro island ol 01 a perfectly white race semi civil zed partly christian iced but cruelly hostile in their dis coura gement of with the outer world the favored few who have been permitted to penetrate the fastnesses of these exclusive baucas ans tell of a country rich in vegetable and mineral wealth and of a people skilled in the various domestic crafts orderly gen tie and hospitable but well enough satisfied with the little world to resent the intres on of the strenuous civilization of the outside lieutenant de clairmont was stationed at bilao Tai jabas province mindoro island and the story of the white people told him by one manuel castro a native of high standing was corroborated by the local priest and the presidente of the province here in mindoro he said we have one race that is perfectly white they are located in the interior having as their headquarters a city of more than SO inhabitants there are many mole of them scattered throughout the country surrounding their capital according to castro the existence of these white folk was discovered twenty five years ago by a apan sh surgeon who took two of the white children to europe one of them he adopted and educate 1 as a lawyer this one returned to the islands and afterward wrote to the spanish surgeon he had found his parents and had decided to cast his lot with them and their peo pie they were edans he said and he proposed to devote his life to introduce the christian rel gion and in other ways to give the people from whom be had been the benefit of his knowledge the young lawyer it I 1 said is the ruling sultan of this isolated people |