Eureka Reporter | 1903-09-18 | Page 3 | Missing Link Found

MISSING LINK FOUND tribe in british new guinea lives in trees and lose use of legs A melbourne dispatch to the lon don dally daily chronicle says the all mi of british new guinea reports the discovery of an estr lor binary tribe of marshland dwellers in the island of papua owing to the swampy ground and tangled undergrowth walking and cancel canoeing ng are al most impossible the native dael lings are axe built in trees and as a re suit of the conditions existing the na lives tives are gradually losing the use of their lower limbs and are unable to walk on hard ground without their tet fet bleeding their bodies have developed enormously while their legs and thighs have become atrophied in figure and carriage they are apelike