Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — SCOFF AT ‘WHITE CANNIBALS’ [ARTICLE]

SCOFF AT ‘WHITE CANNIBALS’

Explorers Declare No Such Tribe as Reported Exists on Tiburon Island. Los Angeles, Cal. —Members of the mining expedition ..-Capt-—Harry—De-Windt, an English explorer, said he plans to lead to Tiburon island, in the Gulf of California, need not fear “white cannibals” reported there, according to Los Angeles residents who have visited the island. Persons returning from Tiburon, however, have given it an unpleasant reputation. They have reported that it is overrun with reptiles and that the few Indians living there, while not ac-tively.-hostile, are sullen and distrustful. Stories of a strange white tribe, using poisoned darts and an ancient blunderbuss to bag occasional visitors to provide native feasts, are scouted here. Some Los Angeles residents have reported having seen natives carrying modern firearms.