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Show vvmvuvwMWVMVtiwvvnvww" . Thinks Chocos Indians Are Original Panamans. . , e I PROFESSOR PITTIER, of the Dulled States Agricultural Department, who was recently sent to Tanarua for botanical bo-tanical study, has done some remarkable work for the Smithsonian Institution in regard to exploring amonj the original Inhabitants In-habitants of that region. He visited a rrilw. of lndiius known as the Chocos. They livt-d oo the southwestern south-western coast of L-uania, and Professor I'itticr thinks they are descendants of the tnbes whi.h inhabited that part of the world wnen Columbus discovered Sunto Domingo. They are tall and Stalwart, with kindly natures, a free hospitality nod an iuuuic ionesly. Few white men have ever beeu emonf them. Tribes of a somewhat similar simi-lar nature arc also found on tbe southeast i coast, many of them having never seen a white face in their lives. While the Republic Re-public of Trtuama nominally rule this acctios the iruU us thai these likdian. lfsaB t; L naaal Sr'"it IS 1 CHOCO-3 IN-D1A.KS OPIGINAL PJJiAS' I Iffovern themselves entirety, have absolutely abso-lutely no intercourse with the whites, do I not allow a white man to visit their larvd ami eull flj U Colonihiaa I Their houses sii srass huts, theirototh-lug theirototh-lug Is almost nothing, but they seem to u -,i. of the fact that i hey h re enjov life in spite oi . , nnacqnaintedwith tiw beneni. of r-1-.-oa, fsshion, society and aavem-em. |