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that there is quite enough, and perhaps more, for 

 them to do at home before they tackle what they are 

 pleased to style the "heathen " in foreign countries. 

 The civilising of coloured people in all lands by 

 means of missionaries has proved a ghastly failure. 

 In a few years the state of the unfortunate people 

 tackled by missionaries is infinitely worse than 

 when the Christianisingr commenced. Its results 

 are the utter deg^eneration of the unfortunate 

 people. The introduction of spirits and the Bible 

 confuses them beyond belief, and ends in physical 

 degradation. 



The Jesuit methods are entirely different. They 

 leave the spiritual part alone, and endeavour to 

 improve the general status of the natives, showing 

 them how to improve their manner of cultivating 

 crops, instilling thrift and cleanliness, etc. 



The experience gained or taught in some 

 hundreds of years proves beyond question that 

 attempting to civilise the black races is labour 

 spent in vain. I draw a distinction between 

 christianising and civilising. To attempt the former 

 is worse than futile ; the latter should be confined 

 to instilling discipline enough to make the natives 

 useful to the white man. 



Harking back to sporting in South Africa. The 

 Cape hunting dogs were often to be heard at the 

 camp at Maclontsie. I believe they never give 



