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Show SPREAD FEAR OF WHITE RACE. Crafty Arab Leaders Worked on Ignorance Ig-norance of Followers. There is a passage In one of tho nncient Arab histories to tho effect that "the white people coino from tho other side of the sea." This statement has becomo so distorted among certain cer-tain tribes of natives of the Sudan that the) bcllcvo that tho whlto men con;o from the bottom of tho sea. A wily Arab leader once Informed his followers that they had nothing to fear from tho white men, as they could not live away from tho water. The fact that a high official took his bath daily was further considered confirmatory con-firmatory evidence of tho submarine origin of the whlto mnn. Tho Arabs, in order to retain their influence over the natives, spread broadcast the report re-port that tho whlto men wero cannibals. canni-bals. Tho fact that they did not ent black men was explained ns duo to their devilish cunning. Thoy wanted to make themselves strong lu tho country before beginning their horrid practices, but as they could not altogether alto-gether do without this kind of food they brought human flesh with them In cans. In west Africa a French expedition ex-pedition had tho unfortunato experience experi-ence of finding a portion of a human finger cut off, no doubt, by some accident ac-cident In a can of meat. Here was fresh and conclusive confirmation of the story, In which tho peoplo htd almost al-most ceased to believe, and It was only after a considerable lapse of time that the Idea was at length eradicated. |