Las Vegas Age

WOMAN TELLS OF JUNGLE JOURNEY

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11 (U.P.) — Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton has just returned from a six-months' stay in a land where the natives eat raw tiger meat, and the slithering of pythons through the grass is the nightly lullaby for jungle babies.

For half a year she lived in the huts of the Mois, barbaric inland tribe of Indo-China, apparently the first white woman ever to visit their primitive villages.

The Moi natives themselves revolved her well, she said, giving her food offerings as a mark of hospitality, and never molesting her. At one time they guided her to an unexplored cave in which thousands of bats lived, and from which she obtained many valuable specimens.

Much of her time in the jungle was spent collecting data on the customs, tribal legends and characteristics of the Mois.

She also gathered many rare specimens of animal and plant life for American museums.

Mrs. Seton, former wife of Ernest Thompson Seton, American naturalist and author, has spent a lifetime in such adventurous pursuits. Just prior to visiting Indo-China she had gone to the Brazilian jungle. Her travel books are well known and she has a high standing as an explorer, ethnologist and sociologist. She is president of the National League of American Penwomen.

She has left for New York, where she will rest for several weeks. In the summer she will return to San Francisco for the national convention of the organization of which she is president.