ANCIENT TRIBE
DISCOVERY IN HIMALAYAS. DESCENDANTS OF CHALDEANS. (United Press . Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, December 7. Miss Crossley Batts, who recently arrived in England from India, says: “A few years ago I found an old manuscript in a Buddhist library in Peking about a lost tribe 13,000 ft up the Himalayas and I resolved to find the tribe. I repeatedly failed, but at- last I have succeeded. They arc survivors of the ancient Chaldeans, whose average span of life is 140 to 150 years. They number 600. I did not see a sign of disease or debility. They must possess strange secrets which should be valuable to the Western world. Their language was unintelligible. I have since discovered that it is Chaldean, which I have now learnt, and I am returning to stay longer to try to discover their secrets.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21263, 9 December 1930, Page 5
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