Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — LIGHT ON UNKNOWN LANDS [ARTICLE]

LIGHT ON UNKNOWN LANDS

Explorer Added Greatly to World’s Knowledge of Customs of Peculiar Peoples and Tribes.

Returning in April, 1917, from one of his trips, Capt. Theodore de Booy, the archeologist and explorer of prevt- | ously unknown regions of Santo Do- | mln go and Venezuela, who died in New York, brought with him a “swallow or regurgitating stick" from the Virgin islands. The “swallow stick" was believed to have been used in worshlj) by a West Indian priest more than 400 years ago. It was about five inches I long, and carved from the rib of «•; sea cow, In the Image of one of the - West Indian tribal gods. It was aald that there were only three other such sticks in existence. Previously unknown regions in the mountains between Venezuela and Colombia were explored by Captain De Booy. No white man had ever before entered the high and cloud-capped mountains of that country, which are inhabited entirely by Indian tribes. It took many days of difficult mountain climbing to reach the heights where the tribes live in a land of perpetual mist and cold, although within ten degrees of the equator. Captain De Booy reported that for the most part he had found the natives friendly. At the start he was chosen to lead a campaign against a neighboring tribe to obtain women and other booty. All the material results of the expedition save the women were offered him, but he declined. Captain De Booy conducted archeo- ' logical Investigations In the Bahamas, Cuba. Jamaica, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Turks and Caicos islands, Margarita, Trinidad, Martinique, Venezuela and the Virgin islands of the United States.