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entails, and proceed to denounce them if they 

 don't live up to it. The manner in which the 

 clove industry of Zanzibar was built up and 

 worked is an object-lesson to East Africa. It has 

 been the work of Arabs, who in their ability to 

 control and influence natives have surpassed all 

 the ruling races that have succeeded one another 

 in East Africa. It is true they imposed upon the 

 people a system of slavery which the moral con- 

 science of the world condemned, but that does not 

 affect the fact that they had a wonderful power 

 of making natives work and work contentedly. 

 During the whole period of their domination of 

 the coast there is no record of a native rising. 

 There were rebellions led by ambitious chiefs 

 bidding for power, but there were no risings by 

 natives incited by real or imaginary grievances or 

 oppressive government ; a record that no European 

 Power can show. 



The Arab never set a task ; he may have had 

 one on the rota but he never insisted upon it. 

 His labourers went out to pick cloves, and some 

 brought in five measures and some fifteen ; but all 

 received a like recompense in money, food, and 

 clothing. Lord Cromer, quoting Sir Alfred Lyall, 

 said, " Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental mind. 

 Every Anglo-Indian official should always remem- 

 ber that maxim." Our system, based upon a 



