Only One Fatal Passenger Acid. ent Last Year Almost a Record London, Jan. 9.
London is at the moment greatly interested in a 12-year old girl who has been brought from British Honduras by Mr. Mitchell Hedges, who has' been exploring in that Central American colony.
The girl, who is named Emelia Vasques, isa Maya Indian. She was presented to an audience at a lecture by Mr. Mitchell Hedges. The girl, who ig of a distinctly Mongolian appearance with a light brown com. plexion and a wealth of black hair, was born in a native village, which stands in an extinct voleano er near Lubaantun, an ancient city of white stone ruins discovered Mr, Mitchell Hedges.
explorer says that 50 People of her tribe living in wretched conditions in this crater near the runs of the buildings of their forefathers, are all that remains of the great Maya race, which ina remote age was highly civilized and pros perous and whose country was covered with large cities, He believes that the history of the Mayzs may go buck as far as 30,000 years, The last of the Mayas, he Says. are the most extraordinary tribe he has ever known. They never show any emotion or affection. Even under extreme agony they never wince or utter a sound, Yet they find in everything that happens Signs or omens of the supernatural, are dying out owing to lack of- will-power and stamina, Mr. Mitchell Hedges is returning to British Honduras to resume his explorations accompanied "by Captain Joyce of the British Museum.—British Wireless Through
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