284 RESULT OF CIVILIZING EFFORTS. 



not to have incessantly to take measures for securing 

 their roofs from the rain. Further care was taken 

 that the women should be able to procure all sorts 

 of small appliances, which made their life in the house 

 more comfortable, and themselves more attractive to 

 their husbands. They had soon acquired a taste for 

 carpets and mirrors, improved their toilet, in short 

 they experienced wants, for the satisfaction of which 

 the men were now compelled to provide, who in so 

 doing were very well pleased with the change. This 

 excited the envy of the women still dwelling in their 

 caves, and before long there was a general rush for 

 the workmen's dwellings, which of course necessitated 

 the building of houses for all the permanent workmen. 



I can only urgently advise proceeding on the 

 same lines in our present colonial efforts. The man 

 without wants is hostile to all improvements of civilized 

 life. Only when wants are awakened in him, and he 

 is accustomed to work for their satisfaction, does he 

 form a promising object for social and religious civilizing 

 efforts. To begin with the latter will always only 

 yield illusory results. 



When three years later I again visited Kedabeg, 

 I found a quite considerable place of European aspect 

 already arisen out of the Troglodyte settlement. The 

 bulk of the workmen was certainly still nomadic, but this 

 has remained the case even to the present day. These 

 are people who principally come from Persia after the 

 end of the harvest, work industriously in the mine or 

 in the smelting-house, but go further when they have 



