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have to pass, and in which they would learn to look upon the native, 

 whom they would later be called upon to rule, in a new light. The 

 present writer is strongly of the opinion that by providing such a 

 training for our future native officials we can do much to lessen the 

 risks of injustice and oppression that are inevitable in a country where 

 a majority who have not, and cannot have the franchise, are governed 

 by a small minority of voters whose prosperity depends upon the 

 others' labour. 



Three centres suggests themselves for the headquarters of such 

 a Federal Bureau. The first is Cape Town, with its South African 

 Museum, already famed for its Ethnological Department, which 

 owes much to the energy of Mr. Peringuey and to the South African 

 College, which, nobody who has followed the trend of educational 

 movements in Europe and America can doubt, is destined to become 

 one of the Empire's great centres of University education and 

 research. The second centre that fulfils the necessary conditions is 

 Grahamstown, where we have the Albany Museum and the Rhodes 

 University College, working hand in hand for the advancement of 

 learning in South Africa. The third place that would seem to be 

 a suitable headquarters for the bureau is the proposed University 

 of the Transvaal at Frankenwald, for the establishment of which 

 the late Mr. Alfred Beit has made such noble provision. Unless 

 the jealousy of vested interests stifles this great ideal, the Transvaal 

 has the opportunity to establish a teaching University that in many 

 ways will be without a parallel in the \vorld. Such a University 

 would be a fitting home, if for no other reason on account of its 

 geographical position, for the central offices of the South African 

 Ethnographical Survey. 



I offer no plea for the establishment of the bureau at any one 

 of these places. The great thing is to get the bureau constituted as 

 quickly as possible, and its locale can be decided later on. 



The work of the bureau should be under the control of trained 

 ethnologists, who should have the assistance of educated and speciallv 

 trained men of local experience, young Colonial-born men who speak 

 the language of the native races, and understand them from long 

 contact with them. To be of real service these men must be trained 

 systematically in the theoretical aspect of their work, and a great 

 part of this training can only be civen at a University, in the form 

 of connected lectures by an ethnologist. And at the University Ihe 

 young men would gain, in addition to a training in their special 

 subject, a knowledge of the collateral subjects, such as Biology, 

 Psvchology, and Comparative Philology. 



The chief of the Bureau would have to be an ethnologist of the 

 highest standing, since on his knowdedge, and in an equal degree on 

 his personality (a condition too often overlooked in the filling of 

 scientific posts in ths Colonies by men chosen from Home) the success 



