FINDS LOST TRIBE IN THE HIMALAYAS.
ANCIENT CHALDEANS’ DESCENDANTS FOUND. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 8, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, December 7. Miss Crossley Batts, who recently arrived in England from India, says that a few years ago she found an old manuscript in a Buddhist library at Pekin about a lost tribe 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, and resolved to find the tribe. She repeatedly failed, but at last succeeded. She sa3 7 s that they are the survivors of the ancient Chaldeans, and their average span of life is 140 to 150 years. They number 600. “ I did not see any sign of disease or debilitv They must possess strange secrets, valuable to the Western world. Their language was unintelligible, but I have since discovered that it was Chaldean, which I have learnt, and I am returning to stay longer, and will try to discover their secrets.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19247, 8 December 1930, Page 6
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