ORIGIN OF THE NEGRO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

ORIGIN OF THE NEGRO.

At the creating of Adam, runs a Negro legend. Satan sat about imitating the work, and taking a quantity of sand, succeeded quite in making a man. But as everything that Satan touches becomes black, bis man was naturally of that colour. Seeing this, Satan undertook to wash him white in the river Jordan, but the water flowed back as soon as he approached i 4-, and there was nothing left but a very little water in tho bottom of tho stream, which just covered the bottom of the man's feet and the palms of his hands, which explains the fact that their hands :iud feet are not us dark as the rest of their bodies. Furious at discovering that his attempt was in vain, Satan struck the poor creature a torriblo blow upon the nose, which flattened it out for ever. The unhappy man naked for mercy, whereupon Satan, realising that hi* condition was not his own fault, and feeling- a certain amount of pity for him, passed his hand in a sort of caress over tho man's head, but the terrible heat of the hnnd served the purpose of a curlingiron, and "frizzed'the hair so that it remained woolly ever since.