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Show Lost Tribe Found in Central Afltofe AMOST remarkable- account of a lost tribe of wandering Jews, living in' the interior desert- of Arabia, is pub-. pub-. ' lished in the Truth, a Hebrew newspaper news-paper of Jerusalem!. The newspaper sent a correspondent to investigate in-vestigate the subject, and he found evidence that. theso people arc descendants of the Bcchabitcs, who are described fully in the thirty-fifth chapter of Jeremiah in tho Bible, and aro thoro praised for their temperance and fidelity to the faith of their fathers. The correspondent had an interview with tho leading lead-ing man of the tribe who told him: "The placo where our tents are pitched is not essentially a wilderness, because in some parts there is.abuudant pasture for tho flocks of fhcop which form our principal menus of subsistence. "Wo are about 2500 familios. and according to tradition we woro brought to tho district wo dwell in, by the prophet Jeremiah in por-son. por-son. "Tho journey from our abode, if made cousecutivoly, would take about fifty-three nights; by day it is impossibla to W F' cause only the stars can guide touts of my tribesmen. Thoro are no JJJhiJtt amongst us, and almost cvory m w JRjjJ or six wives." .41jjj3t t r Tho correspondent continues: SSl0' He "Tho Jew showed mc a fB'tV bread, made by themselves ' which they roccivo in exchaagft r MJfejltff ter, milk or honoy. -. U frjBsi? "The scabbard of his sword 55, showed me dates, ho soys, from M Ionian captivity. j ukMiu.fl "He came to spy out iliolaad w lieves that after giving Ins teg of jf many will return with him to sea own eyes. -m UMNu "To my query, 'How i it )p explorer ever iino oar'rur trite!' PWBV hinted at the i existence .of J ' WgS& ! quickly replied: 'No n,nn OIr tel could possibly penetrate uf. J1Di'tlff; tt ; sides the scorching heat of the J; IKfett, very little water, and many j t fKj, pens that wo and our fl7bli(,yC fc?,! davtf without drinking so -i mgit one is likely to approach us, fc J'WM i have dwelt in this region from it morinl.' " j' |