Show WHITE INDIAN TRIBE TRACED Legend Connects Stranger Folk With Band of I NEW maw ORLEANS July 25 26 14 t A AThe Of The Th recent discovery of ot so ao called whIte Indian Indiana on the th isthmus of Panama by the tb Marsh Manh expedition has unleashed d Its Iti It legend In Now New Orleans ns ver verae versed d in lit the tir lore ol or Central and nd South America An expedition of Scotsmen Scot mOn some eoma say eay ay settled d In Darien Darlen In th the tho au autumn of ot 1698 Wf by authorization authorisation of the tho Scotch parliament p This expo ditton numbering some lorne 1200 per soni PT-soni son included d four tour ministers or of o the Church ol ot Scotland who wont went along to establIsh A II organization and It t Is told that be because cause of their ascetic tendencIes t some of ot the tb sturdy turdY Scotch rebelled against them th m and were banished from tram the th settlement FLEE FIEg TO JUNGLES Later r It Is said Mid othera ot of o the tha settlers w were re driven away by lIHI lie Spaniards and It Is I thought likelY many of ot them fl lied fled d Into the tir jungles and nd remained 1 This Thit It If tb the sup sup- supposition suppositIon position Is correct might account for the th whit Indians But Dut th tho San an DIlls Bias tribe rib of at In Indians diane have hav a II different story Many years ago eo they say so 80 long lone ago ao that no one ono can recall the th date a band of at white men came to Darien Darlen and set about to rob the red men of at o their wealth In their ex cx however howver the th pale face t visitor Incurred the th displeasure of an evil spirit and soon they died Their spirits 10 so the th story goes be belag bIne lag accursed wr wore driven Into the fever tevor laden n jungles where the they stayed for That is thi the or of the tho San Bias DIu tribe LAW HOLDS GOOD According to their oldest chief no San BIas Dias could inter inter- intermarry marry with another r race rac That law still hold holds holde anti and so 10 strictly i li Is It Db observed served that even now a white whit man visiting theIr villages Is care care- carefully carefully carefully fully watched But Dut there thero are tales s of oven ven among tho San Bits Bias and they say that some of at the tho th women of the tribe ran away with pale pal face tace men horn hom homI I they married only to be slain later or or their babies killed a few tw days alter atter r birth It Is thought improbable by these unofficial historians historian that the white Indian is i of Spanish origin for the themen SiGn men of Spain wore were never referred to by the th Indians ns as white whit men m but as after tho Spanish horseman This failure of tho In In- In Indians diane to refer to the Spaniard as white men while hilo that term was tas as ap aD applied plied to other strangers of the jun Is 18 considered solid ground for tor forthe the theory of ot those that bellee belle e the new found tribe descended from rom the Scot Scots 00 |