OUR SAFARI 



Cape Town and Cairo, who have in this manner assisted 

 to lessen the prestige of the white races in Africa. 



Has civilization brought to the people of Africa 

 such enormous benefits as many would have us believe ? 

 There are still vast tracts of the country, containing 

 many thousands of people, to whom civilization is as yet 

 unknown. They are supremely happy in their present 

 state, far better off than thousands at home in the old 

 country. They have plenty to live on, nothing to 

 worry about. Has it ever struck you that there is an 

 enormous amount of work to be done at home in the 

 poorer parts of our large cities ? Don't you think that 

 the many charitable institutions at home urgently in need 

 of funds in order to help the destitute and starving, the 

 waifs and strays, would put to far better use the huge 

 sums sent out to Africa for the purpose of educating 

 and " converting " the natives ? No one can deny that 

 educating the native has, after all, been prompted by 

 purely mercenary motives. Thousands have lost their 

 lives working for individuals, mining companies, and 

 governments in their mad rush for wealth. The native 

 is the willing and often the ill-used tool of the white 

 man. Kicked and cuffed by bullying white men, his 

 spirit is speedily broken, and at length he falls in the 

 scramble for gain. And this is civilization ! For the 

 favoured few it is easy. For the great masses it is a 

 struggle in which little quarter is given. 



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