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Show BLACK PEOPLE IN PERSIA. Thei'r Presence Is a Ptr:ile to Learned Ethnologists. Onb of tl)0 "reaearoa men" of th Carnogfo lnstltuto at Washlnrton, now traveling In tho oast, has mado nn Interesting report with roferonc to tho exletcnco in aacicnt Persia of a race of blfleWktrmcd men, who poaso3sod features roflombllng thoso of Africans. Tho origin at tiroso people, ng veil hb their apparent dlMopoarancc in modorn times, bftTo furnished ptic-zllng ptic-zllng questions for Athnologlstfl for a gveat many yunra. Bomo havo supposed sup-posed that ... prohlstorlc tlmi tho greater part ot southern Asia was occupied oc-cupied by a primitive black race, ot which only vestiges rcmulne'a when tho empires of Babylon and Assyria aroso. Lately, descendants of tho black man who figured In the early history of Pcrula are believed to havo born found by tho Russian explorer, Dr. Danlloff, dwelling among tho mountains near Shlras, east of tho Persian gulf. Those people, although they still form an independent group, mlnglo with tho surrounding population, as In ancient times, nnd find employment employ-ment at long distances from their home. Somo of them aro to bo seon in the city of Teheran. |