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no such difficulty with them, affording good evidence 

 that they are a superior race. Kaffirs and Hotten- 

 tots are quite as filthy as Mantatees, so I place the 

 Zulu race on a pinnacle far above them all. " Clean- 

 liness is next to godliness " is an accepted axiom 

 among us ; it should be equally so with the heathen. 

 For my part, and I doubt not but that many will 

 agree with me, in spite of what philanthropists and 

 sentimentalists may say, a clean heathen savage is 

 infinitely to be preferred to a dirty Christian one. ^ 



