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Show FOUND IN MINDOROlSLE fe imm Perfectly White Race, Semi- jpU jft Civilized, Discovered. IJillM HOSTILE TO OUTER WORLD ff! Tribe of Exclusive Cnueftslans Who 5;ri-! t DwU ln ft Country Rich In Voire!- IihS': iH table nnel Mineral Wealth, but J f-'f fl Who llesent Intrusion of the Stren- Mi"! v IS tious Civilization of the Outside f, (Jr-fiH Itnvo Hciilqunrtcrs ln n City of jjAlt H i 20,000 Teople, anel Aro Locatisl in ,'?, W tho Interior of the Island. k lj t Ml mm Ban Franclsro. July 51. Ueut. I.. A. J I iH; IB Do Clslrmoiit, Uultcel Htntes nrmy. f t JjH Isle, of the l'hlllpplne scouts, who has I I S lTturneNl from Manila, tells of the ex- , fiX Istrnce In the Interior of -MlnJoro Is- fc MD land of n lerfectly hlte race, scml ', ' 9u cIvlllzH, partly Ctirlstlsnlieel, hut ' Mil rruelly hostile In their rtlsrouranenient j "XmJ of coniniunlcatlon with the outer world. , WK The f i ored few w hu hn e been per- i Rffi milted to penttrnte the fastnesses of " JX1M these exclusive Caucasians tell of a ' Kl rountr) rich In eirclalile and mineral , , H nmllh, nnd of a people skilled ln tho rH various domestle crafts, orderly. Ken I , tie and hospltaTHe, hut ell enouKh sat i 1 JH Isflcd with the little world to resent ' ( D the Intrusion of the strenuous clvlllta- illH tlon of the outside J' tHM IlACn PKIU'EPT-Y WII1TI1 H ' jilfj Lieut IV Clnlrmont was stationed J tjH nt raghllao, TnUahss province. Mlndo- 51 tH ro Island, and the story ot the whlto flUNH people told him by one Mnnucl Castro, tiMBi n native of IiIrIi standlnir, was corrobo- I illH rated l,y the locnl priest nnd the I'rts u, Idenle of the province "Hero In Mln- 'jo H elorei," he said, "we have ono race that t J Kl Is perfee Ily white They hi located In .'i ! the Inlcrlor. havlnc as their headeiunr- i ,Nt i tors n elty of more than 20 COO Inhabl- &!. jW tants There nre many moro ot them i J(f 1 scattered IhrouRhaut the country sur- i igllS roundhiK their eapltal." l'i M 3 BP DiHcovi:m:n iiy spaniauds. Ej 10, fm Aceordlnu tn Castro the existence ot jhJ4,s Al these white folk was discovered twen- T 'Jwll ty-llve ears auo hy n Hpnnlsh surKcon, fi, -liiy RD who took two of the white children to fiiViSiS M Ilurope One of them he adopted nnel ' Vf Wl educnteel a a. lavvjer. This one re- ft I m UM turned to the Islands nnd nflervvnrit K Ii. l wrote to the Hpanlsh sursron. He bad f JJi Ml found Ids parents, nnd had decided to I, ffl J Sf cast his lot with them nnd their pco- ,-s H pie. They were Mohammeelins. ho i r(. iHi. said, and he proposed to dcoto his llfo vi? ll9 to Introdiicliin the Christian rellulon ffi (H nnd In othir vvos tn itlve the people, H Ht ifU from whom he had been kidnaped the It! ffi UB benefit ot his knovvleilKO. Tho younc B It fr lawyer, It Is said. Is tho rullnc suttan t hZ i. BH of this Isolated people. K JH3 9H aj j:.pi,oitiNH r.xpnniTioN. V, ' 1 H "I InvestlBaled Cnslro's story." said H', aj, ,J HB I.leut. e Cllarmont, "nnd satlsfled i Jii ' ) myself that a race of whites really U TJ. t IB exists on Mlneloro Island. I hnd nppor- (.''"' tatI unity to ro In with nn explorntlon V 'fk 1Im1 party, but the state of my health for- ii, iK Ufl bade. I reported tho matter to th I? 1)0 J Governmental bureau which la ennaeed 1 IKtuiiH In IryliiK to nnd out Just what we have tl l In the Philippines, and was Informed 1 flits' SM that they also had heard nf the tribe. I'.lvpH; iiM but had been unable to locate It. t rf!M! ii gavo them nil tho Information I could M Iff? Tfl net nnd expect to hear very shoitly of iln SkXi mt Ihe orKanlsatlon of nn exploration ex- ni( Tfn M iioiiuion." at nil SB |
