Civilisation ; Its Cause and Cure 



" There is also an exceptional diversity of plants culti- 

 vated, such as hungry rice, maize, red and white millet, 

 several kinds of beans, peas, bananas, and the edible arum. 

 Some of the higher growing beans are even trained on 

 sticks planted for the purpose. Pumpkins and sweet 

 potatoes are also common ; and the Watusi own and tend 

 enormous herds of cattle, goats and sheep. Owing to the 

 magnificent pasturage the milk is of excellent quality, 

 and they make large quantities of butter. They are ex- 

 ceedingly clever with their beasts, and have many calls 

 which the cattle understand. At milking time they light 

 smoke-fires to keep the flies from irritating the beasts. . . . 

 They are tall slightly built men of graceful nonchalant 

 carnage, and their features are delicate and refined. I 

 noticed many faces that, bleached and set in a white collar, 

 would have been conspicuous for character in a London 

 drawing-room. The legal type was especially pro- 

 nounced." . . . 



" The Wahutu are their absolute antithesis. They are 

 the aborigines of the country, and any pristine originality 

 or character has been effectually stamped out of them. 

 Hewers of wood and drawers of water, they do all the 

 hard work, and unquestioning in abject servility give up 

 the proceeds on demand. Their numerical proportion to 

 the Watusi must be at least a hundred to one, yet they 

 defer to them without protest ; and in spite of the obvious 

 hatred in which they hold their over lords, there seems to 

 be no friction." 



Natives of the Andaman Islands 



The following extracts, about the Andaman-islanders 

 of the Bay of Bengal, the Bushmen of South Africa, and 

 the Eskimo tribes of Northern latitudes, are specially inter- 



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