With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



The first thing- to be done is to learn sometJiing of tJic 

 races we have to govern. In this way alone can we avoid 

 terrible mistakes, involving ns in desperate struggles, in 

 which tJie lives of thousands of Europeans and of natives 

 would be lost. But the system of changing about our 

 officials from post to post militates, and must always 

 militate, against this. Men should be left as long as 

 possible in localities to which they have become accustomed, 

 and in which thev have made their mark, quite irrespective 

 of the rank t/iey may hold. It is impossible to introduce 

 our own Iiabits and customs unchanged into foreign lands, 

 and force tliem upon the natives. }\ e must take account 

 of their own habits and customs before we attempt to 

 rule them. 



Only in this way shall we learn how to deal wisely 

 with the natives of our African colonies and to turn them 

 to good account. These regions for tJie most part must 

 aiivays remain closed to European immigration. Gradually 

 to mould the inhabitants and to develop their capacities to 

 the utmost that is at once our only practicable policy and 

 a high and noble ideal. 



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