THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



heathen, for they have come into touch with civiHzation 

 enough to be more up to all sorts of tricks than the wild 

 jungle people; but to blame missionaries for this is cer- 

 tainly most unreasonable. During my three different 

 expeditions to East Africa I had a good many " mission 

 boys " in my caravan. Some of these had never been 

 converted, not even professedly so, and behaved in such a 

 way that they had to be dismissed from the service. 

 Others, who had been recommended to me by the mission- 

 aries as Christian converts, certainly showed a wonderful 

 difference in character and behavior, and to one or two 

 of them I felt that I could intrust anything I had on earth, 

 sure that they would not defraud me of a penny's worth. 



In my opinion the only hope for Africa lies in the thor- 

 ough evangelization of its people by faithful, self-sacri- 

 ficing missionaries, who do not only live and teach a 

 practical gospel, but also are intelligent enough to train 

 the negro along industrial lines, and to teach him to better 

 himself commercially, morally, socially, and religiously, 

 until every one of the savage tribes of the Dark Continent 

 has learned to know Him, who is indeed the Light of the 

 World. 



