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however, so we succeeded in listing only three to re- 

 port to Musoma as deserters.* 



Morning, 68; noon, 88; night, 69. 



September 24. — Off at 6:15, accompanied by a 

 retinue of shenzis for meat. The head man blandly in- 

 formed us that the sultan had sent orders we were to 

 shoot him four beasts! We replied that we were not 

 under the sultan's orders, and that two would be 

 enough. Shortly ran into a topi which I killed at 

 about 150 yards; and then another. The bullet (150 

 gr.) at 180 yards entered right shoulder, dove straight 

 down, came out halfway down inside of left leg, turned 

 at right angles, went through right leg, and hit the 

 ground between me and the animal. This is the 

 most erratic bit of twisting I have known even the 

 Springfield to do. We continued on past my lion camp 

 and up between the donga and the range to the right. 

 About eleven I killed a zebra for camp meat at 240 

 yards, and a half hour later we camped near the last 

 waterhole on the hither side of a wide low pass between 

 two tablelands. These tablelands form the dividing 



*It seems that my bluff of the day before was not so far off the truth. 

 The Germans take the greatest amount of trouble in following up complaints 

 on the part of white men of desertion or bad treatment by the natives within 

 their sphere of influence. This is as it should be, especially in a wild country, 

 and adds to the white man's comfort and efficiency, as well as the natives' 

 well-being and opportunities. The bugaboo of "forced labour," so called, 

 seriously handicaps British administration. The native will not work unless 

 he is forced to do so; but when once he is at the job he is perfectly contented. 

 As labour is the first step in his education beyond what he has always been, 

 it is as absurd to let him off his share as it would be to permit children to 

 stay home from school at will. That is "forced labour, " too, when you come 

 right down to it. Humankind is all doing forced labour. Of course the 

 corollary of proper treatment in every sense of the word is implied. 



