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Neumann, who cared nothing for worldly applause, 

 but were only bent on gaining a knowledge of the 

 Great Unknown, and at the same time making 

 peace with the savages, so that all who came after 

 might have an easy road. It is our pioneers who 

 really conquered the great interior and gave to us 

 our African Empire. Their victory lasts beyond 

 their little day, for that initial spear-head of 

 courage and noble conduct is the apex of all 

 future advancement, and if these men were not 

 our very best gentlemen in the true sense of the 

 word progress would have been delayed for a 

 generation, and other nations would have taken 

 our place. 



Up on the ramparts of Quebec stands a magnifi- 

 cent monument to Champlain, who was the first 

 explorer to plunge into the Canadian wilderness 

 in olden days. That statue, by far the finest 

 in the New World, is of a Frenchman by a 

 Frenchman, but then our Gallic neighbours have 

 enthusiasm and imagination, and it needed their 

 romantic outlook to place it there in a beautiful 

 position above the St. Lawrence in a British 

 town. 



Some day that rare combination a rich man 

 with fine ideas will get to work and put up a 

 statue to Arthur Neumann in Nairobi, for the 

 so-called elephant hunter did as much, and more, 

 than Champlain ever did to explore Canada. 

 But Arthur Neumann was only an Englishman, 

 so we may have to wait a long time, despite the 

 fact that 25,000 settlers are to-day (July 10th, 1919) 

 waiting to take up land on East African highlands 

 about Mount Kenia, which country Neumann 



