-*> Stalking Expeditions in the Xyika 



not add to the beauty ot one's outer man to any ^rcat 

 extent ! 



It would he pleasant to have the natives hnhued 

 with respect for a white skin /or i/sc/J\ and not merely 

 when it is dressed up in uniform. But I have observed, 

 alas ! that now the negro, if he has come a good deal 

 in contact with Europeans, has already learnt to dis- 



criminate in this way. 'I his is particu any marked on 

 the coast, but even in the interior there are s\ mptoms 

 ot it. In British Kasl Atrica the Askaris have orders to 

 salute anv white man who is a guest at the Fort. In 

 ( icrman Fast Atrica, according to my experience, this 

 Would be ( Hit ot the (juestl Ml. 



My spectacles, trained in the best gold, were certamK 

 a source ot inconvenience 1 when thev became clouded 



