Show OLD SLAVE CITY IN AFRICA dr peters find first actual ancient 1 inscription fou found nd in south africa dr carl peters the german explore er or tolls lie of strange finds la in south at A lea ica 1 I wae was fortunate enough to die dis coar a tablet which so far ai as I 1 know contains the first actual ancient in to 1 found in south africa for ace marly aly discoveries have not been of 0 proved actual inscriptions but of stones tone bearing marks strongly resembling ancient semitic writing writings TL thir tablet lo 10 question was found by one of my men in a ilare slave pit to the mouth of In yanga north of Uni tall the dis dl brict contains cont alna hundreds hund rede of theao these pits from twenty to twenty five feet deep la in which the ancient ancients kept their slaves 11 the tablet was evidently made of ce ment and had been cut in two clearly while it waa was soft oft the letters on it being in no way damaged the character characters took to me like greek letters but bu other expert experts lay sal they are ian I 1 take it to bo be the half halt of an all unbent passport one portion of which wu retained by the maager and the other handed to the messenger 1 I also discovered near zimbabwe a brask figure of at pan sit alx lx and a half ball inches la in length very to the figure figures found at Pomp pompil fil thu thus proving areek influence la in south africa apparently at a later period than the tablet I 1 I 1 mentioned these and other are to my mind further proof drool that in south africa there ba has I 1 been eon a continuation of different elvill it has ha aljo also been shown that during al all these periods gold mining has been carried on apparently this was begun by baures of the soil probably bushmen and it seems likely that the first semitic people who appeared on the scene were only trader traders in the precious metal |