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measured 29 inches, were worth keeping, so after 

 cleaning the skull we marched south for some 

 nine hours, 20 miles through an undulating open 

 country with occasional forest, and reached a 

 village called Chimbangue at dusk, where I found 

 two black traders, who travelled in hammocks, 

 already encamped. The younger, who was dressed 

 in European clothes and spoke Portuguese, asked 

 me in an impertinent manner to sell him some 

 venison ; he was surprised to hear that English 

 hunters did not sell their game nor give it away, 

 except to their friends or followers. 



I like the savage black, and live on the best of 

 terms with him in the bush, and my gun-boys 

 have more than once risked their lives for me ; but 

 it is difficult to feel the same degree of friendship 

 for the partly educated negro. 



The aloofness of the Englishman towards semi- 

 civilized races like the Indian, Egyptian, Sierra 

 Leonean, and West Indian is no doubt a source 

 of difficulty and even danger to the Empire. 

 These natives may secretly respect us, but they 

 dislike our attitude or aloofness and wrongly 

 consider it one of contempt. They get on better 

 with the Latin races, who, both men and women, 

 fraternize with them, treat them as social equals, 

 and even intermarry with them. I have always 

 thought that the troubles in India and Egypt, 

 which are spreading to the educated negro races 

 in Africa arid Jamaica, are as much social as 

 political. 



At Chimbangue we came across native graves ; 

 one, that of a chief's son, was surmounted by a 



