Finding

They're Still

'Lost' Tribes

An Administration patrol, led by Patrol Officer R. Barclay, recently found a “lost tribe“ in the Sepik District of Papua- New Guinea.

The patrol found about 1,230 people living in hamlets on the ridges and slopes in the Schat tleburg Ranges, near the head waters of the Leonard Schultze River, which runs into the Sepik.

They had not been visited by a Government patrol.

Mr. Barclay set out from Ambunti, on the Sepik, after a helicopter sighted clusters of huts in the Schattleburg Ranges.

Another “lost tribe” of about 500 people was contacted for the first time recently by a patrol led by Acting District Officer B. Mulcahy. The people live in groups of hamlets near the headwaters of the August River, about 50 miles north west of Telefomin.

The discovery of this tribe was also through an Administra tion helicopter search for tribes men in remote areas.