SECRET OF LONG LIFE
MISSING TRIBE FOUND' IN
HIMALAYAS
SURVIVORS OF ANCIENT CHALDEANS
LIVE 110 TO 150 YEARS
(U.P.A. by Elcc. Tel- Copyright)
LONDON, Dec. 7
Miss Cross]by Batts, who recently arrived in England -from India-, says that a. few years ago she fouiid an old manuscript in a Buddhist library in Pekini about a- lost tribe 13,000 ft up the Himalayas, and resolved to firid the tribe. She repeatedly failed, but at! last' succeeded- They arc tho survivors of the-ancient-Chaldeans, arid the/, average span of life is* from 1401 to- 150 years.’ They number 600. “I. did not see any sign of diseaso or debility”, she stated. “They must possessi strange secrets valuable 1 to the western world.' Their language .is unintelligible. I have since, .discovered that' it is .Chaldean, which' I have learnt. I am returning to stay longer and will try, to discover the secrets.”. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11384, 9 December 1930, Page 5
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148SECRET OF LONG LIFE Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11384, 9 December 1930, Page 5
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