Show African an Fighters Found to Be Blue Blue- Eyed Race From Northern Europe H 49 4 t 4 p 4 A I Iq q J C 4 The blond blue eyed blue eyed man and the typical woman I above are ere cited by C. C S. S Coon Harvard scientist as evidence that this thia fighting African people is really a north European folk By HOWARD W. W BLAKESLEE Associated Press Preas Science Editor CAMBRIDGE Mass AP AP Dis Dis Discovery covery of evidence that the warlike warlike war war- like Ule of north Africa really are a north European people of fair haired Nordic attributes is isan- isan announced an- an at Peabody museum of Harvard college by toy C. C S. S Coon of th the museum staff He lie recently re returned returned returned re- re turned from a summer of research in the Rift Riff his Oils fourth Journey to northern Morocco With the ethnological findings goes oes a story of adventure by py an American youngster traveling as a civilian Ulan with his wife as his only regular companion During one of i the summers Coon was in and out of the French and Spanish fighting lines ruffians became so well wel acquainted acquainted acquainted ac ac- ac- ac as to tell ten Coon stories about their fights One such concerned con con- a a. French column that halted for the night in the valley of an apparently friendly village The villagers first sold the French supplies and then warned d them that an unfriendly tribe lived in the hills advising them to ic- ic main away from tho the hills that night while they the friendly flans fians stood guard in the hills That night the village defender opened fire on the French and bombed their camp The French fought V VIn back In the morning orning the villagers their arms put away called caned upon the tile French to relate their story of defending the visitors They claimed that they had lost twenty men in the night and asked the French commander how many lie he lost bat He replied sixty The VII vil lagers boasted that they received an official note of thanks for their defense Another story was of a party of going sniping at night against Spanish lines One of their number wis nas caught in a a. a bear trap which th the the Spaniards had set against snipers The seLl said they were Unable to release their comrade and that they took away his arms and led to him a cow which he held by its tether At daylight the Spaniards finding the tile sniper asked how he came caine there He replied that he had been trailing a strayed cow S So the Spaniards made amends for rOl hi hl injury by Lr giving him good care caro and 81 freedom I From rom the measurements of or hun bun of them Dr Coon to found nd the predominant skeletal characteristics tics of the to b be Nordic l There was also some Alpine Alpiner or mid-European mid and Mediterranean or south European white stock stOk 1115 He Ie found negro bloods to be a a. sep separate Ote caste not crossed with th the In hair color Coon found 65 I pr e cent of the men with brownish and reddish tints and less than 1 per percent percent cent pure golden Beard color colors showed 60 per cent light and 4 per percent percent cent golden The eye census rv PY 54 per cent of gray or blue mixed with brown and 2 f per cent pure pure pur blue He found a survival of ot the Black lae Sabbat a. Sabbat-a. a form of mock and devil worship which Europe in the middle ages nes cultivation n of ot rye he identified u a north European survival sur H Ho foUn foun them to outward aPpearance ap but on closer a 4 acquaint ance ince inclined to make fun tun of orA of the tenets of Mohammedanism l and even willing to eat pork They have preserved trail about the second coming I Christ of th the S Biblical lion that wilie wll wi wlllie wi wilie lie down with the Ia lamb ib b and ac Jonah and the whale I Before th the French a and d Spank ule rule Coon found a democratic f tOt of ot native e government with to te meetings s and e councIls council t tOn On squeeze dynamometer t ti t which measure the I strength l hand grip the tile rated ft 1 at 49 kilos Irish second at 1 and Americans third at SS 1185 V I |