Fort Jameson to Nawalia 



were temporarily too much for him. So soon as he 

 returned to his ordinary garments and daily avo- 

 cations he again became the best of cooks and 

 servants. 



The black man is essentially vain. There can 

 be no doubt that the wearing of European clothes 

 in his own hot climate has an extraordinary and 

 deteriorating effect upon his mind. Dressed up in 

 the cast-off clothes of his master, or the shoddy 

 garments of the native store, he really thinks he 

 impersonates and is on a level with a white man. 



It is a great pity stringent rules are not made to 

 prevent natives from apeing the white man's dress, 

 especially in a young colony. The " boys " hanging 

 about large towns in Rhodesia and South Africa 

 are disgusting objects, with dirty tweed clothes and 

 greasy caps and hats. The native in his simple 

 cotton knickers, worn with or without a washing 

 vest or neatly made linen jacket, takes a pride in 

 being clean, which he certainly cannot be when he 

 wears the dirty cast-off tweed clothes of Europeans. 



Cecil Rhodes once said : "I do not want the 

 natives to ape European dress or cover themselves 

 with a veneer of sanctity. I want them to learn to 

 work, to feed and clothe themselves decently, to 

 show some concern for each other's welfare," and 

 he added, in his far-seeing way, "and ultimately 

 come into affairs." 



A few new porters turned up in the morning, 

 and more just after lunch. They were at once 

 sorted out, the best being taken for the machilla 

 teams, for which there is always competition, as it 



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