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forming to the primitive customs of their race, yet honest, 

 manly and intelligent people, with very definite ideas in 

 regard to moral questions. After an absence of thirty 

 years, just prior to my sailing for England, I again visited 

 the district and was amazed to observe the change which 

 had taken place in the people ; their habits, characters and 

 physique. Sordid poverty, dressed in mean rags or tawdry 

 finery, suggestive of service to vice, had displaced the old 

 dignity, born of conscious physical strength and symmetry 

 of form, which once, though attired only in the trappings 

 that simple art could devise from the rough products of 

 nature, was characteristic ; whilst drunkenness, dishonesty 

 and immorality sought shelter under the meagre cloaks 

 of the religion dispensed by the different sections of belief, 

 established in the little iron, or wattle and daub churches, 

 which everywhere disfigured the country side. The 

 change was complete and deplorable, nor were the natives 

 unconscious of their degradation, or without regret for 

 the passing of the old days." 



Slavery 



From Waitz's Anthropologle der Naturvolker, vol. ii, p. 281. 

 (Leipzig, 1860.) 



" One finds that the fate of Slaves among the ruder 

 peoples is much happier than among the civilised ; indeed 

 it seems to grow worse and worse in proportion to the 

 civilisation of the ruling folk. Strange and incredible as 

 at first sight this seems, the following facts establish it 

 beyond doubt. And indeed it is not difficult to explain. 

 The chief reason is that with the increase of merely 

 material culture^ Time and Labour-force are more and 

 more prized, and consequently always more violently and 



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