White Africans

Major Pinto, the Portuguese explorer, who has just crossed África, f rom Benguella southwestward to Natal, describes a race of white men found by him near the headquarters of the Zambezi. He says : I ene day noticed that one of the carriers was a white man' He belonged to a race entirely unknown up to the present day. A great white people exist in South África. Their name is Casseque:; they are whiter than the Caucaáans, and in place of hair have their hiads covered with small tufts of very short wool. Their cheek bones are prominent, their eyes like those of the Chinese. The men are extremely robust. When they discharge an arrow at an elephant the shaft is completely buried in the animal's body. They live on roots and the chase, and it is only when these supplies fail them that they hold any relation with the neighboring race, the Ambuelas, from whom they abtain f ood in exchange for ivory. The Cassequeres are an entirely nomadic race, and never sleep two nights in the same encampment. They are the only people in África that" do not cook their iood in pots. Tlipy wander about, in groups of from fourto six families, overall the territory lying between the Cuehi and the Cubango. It would seem that from a crossing of the Cassequeres with the negroes of other races sprang those mullattoes of the south, whom the English cali Bushmen. The latter are, however, better on' than the Cassequeres, and use pots in cooking their food, while their disüositions are good. though quite opposed to civilization.