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Show MISSING LINK FOUND. Tribe In British New Guinea Lives In Trees and Lose Uce of Legs. A Molbourno dispatch to tho London Lon-don Dally Chronlclo says: Tho administrator ad-ministrator of British Now Gnlnoa reports tho discovery of an extraordinary extraor-dinary trlbo of marshland dwellers In tho Island of Papua. Owing to the swampy ground and tangled undor-growth, undor-growth, walking nnd canoeing aro almost al-most Impossible Tho natfvo dwellings dwel-lings aro built In trees, and ns a ic-Btilt'of ic-Btilt'of tho conditions existing, tho natives na-tives nro gradually losing tho uro of tholr lower limbs nnd nro uunblo to walk on hard ground without their fct blooding. Tholr bodies havo dovolopod enormously whllo tholr lees nnd thighs havo becomo atrophied. In figure nnd carrlago thoy nro apo-like |
