WHITE AFRICANS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1725, 17 April 1888, Page 3

WHITE AFRICANS.

The statement contained in Rider > Haggard’s new novel, “Allan Quartermain, concerning the existence ot white races in the interior of Africa, has received a most remarkable confirmation from the man who, above all others, is qualified to speak on the subject, says the New York World, Zebebr Pasha, the grand old slave king of Central Africa, whom the German traveller, Dr Schweinfurth, describes in 1871 as living in the place where visitors were conducted through halls of state by richly-dressed and attentive slaves, and where chained lions guarded the doors, and soloiers in mail armour awaited bis will, is now a, captive in the fortress of Gibraltar, whither he was deported from Egypt some two years ago in consequence or hi« suspected complicity in the boudan rebellion. Talking the other day to a correspondent about the slave countries, on the White Nile, which are entirely savage, he remarked: At Sakara and Bengheigh, in the yery heart of the slave country, there are tribes as white as Europeans, with long Sky hair. The beards of the old mep sometimes reach down to their feet. , , Zebehr, in describing others ot the black tribes, assarts that cannibalism still prevails, and that many of them eat nothing but human flesh. Men and women are sold in the market by the pound, exactly as one sells mutton and beef. The old and fat are preferred. Sometimes they are sold dead and cut up.”