MANAGING A SAFARI 



There is an essential justice to recommend this, 

 outside the fact that it has with the native all the 

 solidity of accepted ethics, and it certainly helps to 

 run the real criminal to earth. The innocent some- 

 times suffers innocently, but not very often; and 

 our own records show that in that respect with us 

 it is the same. This is not the place to argue the 

 right or wrong of the matter from our own standpoint 

 but to recognize the fact that it is right from theirs, 

 and to act accordingly. Thus in case of theft of 

 meat, or something that cannot be traced, it is well 

 to call up the witnesses, to prove the alibis, and then 

 to place the issue squarely up to those that remain. 

 There may be but two, or there may be a dozen. 



"I know you did not all steal the meat," you must 

 say, "but I know that one of you did. Unless I 

 know which one that is by to-morrow morning I will 

 kiboko all of you. Bass!" 



Perhaps occasionally you may have to kiboko the 

 lot, in the full knowledge that most are innocent. 

 That seems hard; and your heart will misgive you. 

 Harden it. The "innocent" probably know per- 

 fectly well who the guilty man is. And the inci- 

 dent builds for the future. 



I had intended nowhere to comment on the poli- 

 tics or policies of the country. Nothing is more 

 silly than the casual visitor's snap judgments on 



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