Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-09-11 | Page 10 | Air Explorers Find Queer Native Tribe

AIR EXPLORERS FIND QUEER NATIVE TRIBE African Lake Dwellers Imagine Selves Only Human Beings on Earth NEW YORK AP The AP-The The discovery of an African tribe of lake dwellers who believed themselves to be the only human beings on earth was was described by Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson on their return from Ironi iroma a month 20 nt 81 air expedition t through o gh the dark continent This tribe lives Jives on a small island in Lake Rudolph which lies partly in Kenya and partly in Abyssinia The Johnsons reached the lake which hitherto they had found inaccessible by using two amphibian planes Johnson Johnson John John- son described the tribe which numbered numbered numbered num num- 70 natives as a dying remnant remnant rem rem- nant of the African race who were too stupid to be particularly interested inter ested in the arrival of white people from out of the air somewhat startled They were Johnson said and we learned that it had never occurred to them that tha other human beings might inhabit the earth or or for that matter that the earth existed beyond the shores of their lake They have no agriculture and not even any canoes to leave their island They live on practically nothing but but fish Once over their slight surprise they accepted us calmly These people are extremely skinny y with j enlarged knee and rJ bow joints There arc are no other i n n lives near them probably r ably not for 5 or r 00 miles I 1 dont don't think our vis made any impression on them an they probably forgot all about i i within two days after our I think they will vill die ou out before Defore many years There arc areo Ja J a few ch children and they were y a J weak and sickly f