Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus Volume 1; In Their Own Words, with a Translation Into Englishvol. L (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...or Fellatahs is said to be "more or less straight, and often very fine." (Types of Mankind. Nott and Oleddon, p. 188.) Again Barth mentions seeing at Erarar-n-sakan, near Agades, a long-haired race, which he thus describes: --"They were very tall men with broad, coarse features, very different from any I have seen before, and with long hair hanging down upon their shoulders, and over their faces, in a way that is an abomination to the Tawarek; but upon enquiry I learnt that they belonged to the tribe of Ighdalen or EghedaL a very curious mixed tribe of Berbe and Soughay blood, and speaking the Soughay language." ( Travels in Central Africa. Vol. I., p. 404, ) But none of these can be considered as answering to the description of longhaired as given in the Zulu legends of cannibals; neither could they possibly have formed their historical basis. Indeed, at the present time we occasionally meet with natives with long hair reaching to the shoulders, or standing out from six to nine inches, like a fan, from the head. It may be worth whde to compare with the Zulu legends those of the Scotch Highlands, where we have accounts of Gruagachs, that is "long-haired," gigantic magicians and cannibals, who play a somewhat similar part to the long-haired Amazimu of South Africa. (Campbell. Op. tit. Vol I., p. I. Vol II., pp. 186, 188.) It is probable that the native accounts of cannibals are, for the most part, the traditional record of incursions of foreign slave-hunters. The whites are supposed to be cannibals by the Western Africans, because they hunt and buy slaves. (Winwood Bead, p. 160.J And even though the object for which slaves are purchased by the whiteman may be well understood, yet the use of "eat" every where among Afric...