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STitAXUK FAMILY IX SWAMP. Scientist Keveals Mysteries of the Okefenokee, Hitherto lTne\plored. The discovery of a half savage family speaking Chaucerian English, on an island in the midst of the Okefenokee swamp, in Georgia, was described by Dr. \Y. D. Funkhouser in a lecture at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Funkhouser was one of a party of scientists from Cornell university which undertook the trip in i yi2 in search of new flora and fauna and to determine the expediency of having the swamp made a national park by the government. So far as was known at the time no man had ever entered the swamp, the natives had a superstitious fear of it, and even criminals could not make their way into it, Dr. Funkhouser said. Among the rumors heard by the scientists were stories that Billy Bowlegs, famous Seminole chief, made his last stand against the whites in the swamp; that a colony of people lived on an island in it; and that it t was inhabited by a witch who devoured men who attempted entrance. They could get none of the natives to act as guides for them, and learned that the only man who ever made any start into the swamp was brought back after a half day's journey by his native guide, who refused explanation. ? "We five started in alone, carrying fifty-pound packs, with a compass as our guide," Dr. Funkhouser said. "The water was from wraist to shoulder deep, full of giant cypress trees, and so closely overgrown with underbrush and entangling vines that we literally had to cut our way wun saw at every step, and could only advance \ a mile a day. On the bottom was a thick growth of moss, which would support the weight of a man while moving, but which would begin to sink with us as soon as we stood still to begin cutting the brush. /' "We soon had to discard cameras, provisions and other paraphernalia because of the difficulty of travel and we ate bear meat and alligator tails. The swamp was full of game of every kind, and the water abounded wTith fish, snakes and alligators. We drank the swamp water, which was coffee colored, but had nothing in it to pollute it, as no human habitations were near. > "At night we piled brush as high as we could around the cypress trees to make beds. Of course the brush soon sank below the water, which would wake us, and we then cut more brush , and made more beds indefinitely until morning. There were myriads pf mosquitoes and other insects, but as there were no other people for them to bite they could not give us malaria. We were wet all the time, and everything that could be spoiled by water was ruined. "Sometimes we came to a big tunnel through the underbrush, where a large alligator had crashed his way through, and we would crawl through it to save some cutting. The difficulties were that the sides were usually supplied with wasp nests, and there was always the chance of meeting the alligator coming back. Finds Family on Island. "At the end of the twentieth day "oto pamp in sisrht. of a low island cov ered with pine/trees. Here we found a family of persons who in many ways can be compared only to animals. It consisted of an old, old woman, her tribe of three sons and two . daughters, who had intermarried; and their eleven children. All of them were degenerate weaklings, undernourished, and had hookworm and bad blood, as the tests ve made showed. They had a large graveyard which was about full. "The family had no shelter except a rude lean-to built against a tree, and wore no covering to speak of, the children being entirely naked^ While they spoke English, we had much difficulty in understanding them as their vocabulary was Chaucerian, Spencerian and Shakespearian. We did not know this at the time, and their speech was very ? strange to us, but we made a dictionary of it during our all-summer stay on the island, and when we came out we learned that many of the words they used are known to the world only through Chaucer, while more are of the time of Spencer and Shakespeare. Only One Traveler. "They had never heard of reading, writing or any of the things we take for granted, and on learning that we were from New York, inquired if it were another island or a turpentine still. Only ond of them had ever been off the island. He had found the headwaters of the Sewanee river, which rises in tb# swamp, and had twice year floated down it in a flat bottomed boat to the edge of the , swamp where there was a turpentine still and a small store. He had a suit of overalls which he wore at these times and kept concealed with the boat in the brush in the meantime. "On these semi-annual trips he traded bear and alligator skins for salt and corn meal at the store, but he didn't talk to anyone there and tbey supposed him to be one of the Georgia crackers of the vicinity. Although he didn't talk, he listened, and the olassic speech of the family was peculiarly mixed with the Georgia cracker dialect. On one of his trips he took back a small acetylene lamp, which was the most wonderful thing his brothers and sisters, who had never heard of candles, had ever seen. They contended that water would burn, as he had managed to save some carbide, and would pour water from the swamp into the container and light it. "In spite of their entire ignorance of the world and total inability to , understand anything outside 'their island, these people were very religious, and one of them asked me if I believed in the living God. "The development of their senses and their acute powers of observation can be compared only to animals. They could smell a rattlesnake in the swamp and trail by smell like dogs. They could see things we could not and could describe birds and insects or animals so accurately that the scientists in the party could recognize them. They also knew more about nature than anyone in our party. Woman Wouldn't Talk. "We could never learn how the: came to be there or how long th< family had been inhabitants of th< island, although we were convincec that the old woman knew. She re fused to talk about it at all. Oui theory was that a convict or som< fugitive from justice made his wa: into the swamp generations ago, witf one or more companions, and that i had been impressed on the old woman that she must never reveal tin facts. "As to the other tradition, we learned more. On opening an Indian mound on the island, we disinterrec the skeleton of an Indian, undoubtedly bowlegged, with a tomahawl hole in.his skull, and his dogs anc wives buried in concentric circles around him. There were also in the mound other articles usually placec in Indian burial places. "After learning: about the outle by way of the Sewanee, we floated down it, got provisions, cameras anc other scientific equipment for obtaim ing and preserving specimens which we shipped north by the same route We found many, many new .specie; new to science; adult specimens, eggs and nests of the ivory billed wood pecker, supposed to have been extinct half a century; new and ran insects, animals and plants, and mud evidence tha? crocodiles, supposec ever to have lived in the Unitec States, are to be found in the wate: of :he swamp. People Helpful. "The people were very helpful ir obtaining specimens, and when once they knew- what we wanted, coulc get many more than w*e could anc tell us facts about them which were unknown to science. They had trails from the island out into the swamp going by way of fallen logs, shallow pools of water and tufts of grass or moss, wrhich made it easier. for us.. There were several other small islands or small pieces of land twro 01 three inches under water, in the vicinity. The people had named all other islands but the one on which they lived. One of these which they called Many Lake island, we had much difficulty in reaching, as they refused for a long time to guide us there, because, they said, 'the^e belonged to merry wings there/ "They would not tell what 'pierry wings' were, but I? found out. When we were finally taken to the island, where we spent one night, some insect which we never saw stung me so that my eyes were swollen almost shut, and my fingers so that they stood out stiffly from my' palms for several days. Whatever the insect was, it was entirely unknown to science. "To the islanders we were as some higher beings, and they stood around us, watching our every action, as lone as we were there. As beings higher than they, it was not fitting that they should question any of our actions, The first thing we saw in the morning was that ring of seventeen persons standing about us, and it was our last sight at night. "Th? women on the island did not ask one question about women in the outside world, and none of the family had any conception of life off the island. Their family name was Lee and their Christian names were all Biblical." TWO RAIDS BY BANDITS. Robbers and Express Company Paymaster Shot. Chicago, July 26.?Two bandits and two express company paymasters were shot, one of the latter probably fatally and $25,000 stolen in two daring payroll robberies on the West Side within 20 minutes of each other this morning. All of the- bandits escaped. 1 Earlier in tne day two young men who have been holding up branches of a chain store grocery system perpetrated their 15 th robberv within a month, escaping with $750. Five bandits in a touring car fought with three express company messengers in front of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothing factory, in the heart of the densely populated West Side and escaped with a steel box containing $10,000 after,two o! their number had been wounded. More than 50 shots were exchanged in the fight while 200 pedestrians and employees of the factory looked on. George Haubeek, one of the express paymasters, was shot through the head and is not expected t > lrve Another messenger, Charles Gaude, was wounded in the leg. ' After Haiibeck fell one of the robbers grabbed the box, but was shol down by Gaude. A second bandil snatched up the money and threwv il into the car, but was shot before he could followr and collapsed across the running board. His companions dragged the other wounded man into the machine and it dashed off witi one injured man clinging to the running board. A motorcycle policeman gave clias* but lost the trail after several blocks Shortly after the first hold up, three men drove up to the Petersor Machine Works almost at the edge of the loop district, and took $ 15,00C from Abe Nelson, a saloonkeeper who is a stockholder in the concern Nelson had just reached the planl with the money which he had drawr from a down town bank. The mer escaped. Sure to Return. A new Englander tells of a merchant in a Vermont town whose did nnt verv stronsrlv substanti ?~7 ^ - ate his advertising claims. So he pul out a new sign. He was pleased tc observe that a great many persons stopped to read it. But soon he was pu.-zled and angered to notice tha they all went on, laughing! There was; nothing humorous about the sign for it merely read: If You Buy Here Oirce You Will Come Again. The merchant went out in a casua sort of way and glanced at his sigr to see what was the matter. 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