These are, I believe, the first white people
who are known to have fallen victims to this cruel tribe. -- Editor.
Endnote 9
Mr Allan Quatermain misquotes -- Pleasure sat at the helm. -- Editor.
Endnote 10
Where Alph the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea
Endnote 11
Mr Quatermain does not seem to have been aware that it is common
for animal-worshipping people to annually sacrifice the beasts
they adore. See Herodotus, ii. 45. -- Editor.
Endnote 12
There is another theory which might account for the origin of
the Zu-Vendi which does not seem to have struck my friend Mr
Quatermain and his companions, and that is, that they are descendants
of the Phoenicians. The cradle of the Phoenician race is supposed
to have been on the western shore of the Persian Gulf. Thence,
as there is good evidence to show, they emigrated in two
streams, one of which took possession of the shores of Palestine,
while the other is supposed by savants to have immigrated down
the coast of Eastern Africa where, near Mozambique, signs and
remains of their occupation are not wanting. Indeed, it would
have been very extraordinary if they did not, when leaving the
Persian Gulf, make straight for the East Coast, seeing that the
north-east monsoon blows for six months in the year dead in that
direction, while for the other six months it blows back again.
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