Black Men In Persia

Oíd inscriptions and carvings nave ohown that there existed in anciem Persia members of a race of black skinned men, who possessed featun resembling those of Africans. Torigin of these people, as well as th apparent disappearance in mod i times, have furnished puzzling qut tions for etlinologists. Some have su posed that in prehistorie times greater part of Southern Asia wa cupied by a primitive black race, o' which only vestiges remained when tht empires of Babylonia and Assyria aróse. Lately descendants of the black men who flgured in the early tistory of Persia are believed to have been found by the Russian explorer, Doctor Daniloff, dwolling among the mountains near Shiraz, eaat of the Persian Gulf. These people, although they still form an independent gronp, mingle with the surrounding population, as in ancient times, and find employment at long distances from their home. Some of them are to be seen in the city of Teheran.