WHITE AFRICANS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1738, 17 December 1887, Page 2

WHITE AFRICANS

Tha Btalemoht contained In Ri<3or Hoards n.ntr mm*), ''Allan Quartermil 11," ooncornlng tho ex'.stouca of whito raoea In tho interior of Africi, liqh reooiv d a moKt remarkable- confirm ition from tho mm who, above "ill otliure, i-i quilifiod to epoak on the Huhjecf, tho ' .New York World." Zobhr PAehti, tho grnrd old alavo kin» of Central Afrtoi, whom tho Gorman travellr, Dc Sch»oivifurth, doscrlhea In 1871 aa llrln(» m a p%!aoa " whoro visltora wore oonduoted through halls of ct^to by rlohly drossod mid bt entive alavos, and where chained lions guardud tho dors, and soldiers m maU arraonr Tralted on hifl will, (a now a onptlve io tho Britten f ftrena of Gibraltnr, whither ho was deported ftfom BJcypt come t«q yearn ago, m conseqaonae of hU suspected oomplioltv In t^o boudan rebplllon." Talking t'lo other day to a correspondent, about tho Blavo couutrloa on the Whito Nl!o, which aro entirely Havana, ho romaikoi :— " At Sak«r^ aud Bsnghioh, m tho very ho^rtof tho Hlavo oMjntry, thoro arc tribes a? v/hlfca nn Europeans, with lonur and allky hair. Ta« boards of tho old mon flomotimoa I roach down to tfieir foot." .^bhr, m desorlbini' otdord of tho blaok trlboa, no-jorto that cnnnibalJem sti!l prevails, aud that many of thorn eat nono but human fljah. "Moa and women nro sold m the markets by the pound, exactly aa one aolla inatton uud beof, The old Rn d fat are preferred. Spnietimea tjioy are Bold cJ«ad and cut up."