ophir-land

Updated: July 18, 2026

But he has his own theory as well that the true lovers were both of African blood, that she came from the Ophir-land south of the Zambesi, and thither returned in peace at last from the foam of perilous seas. Perhaps his argument is slender; but it is good for him to believe in it himself, I think, for surely it helps his work among those that he deems her descendants.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales