ON SAFARI. RHINO AND GIRAFFE 



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said this much in the way ol criticism, I wish to add my 

 tribute of unstinted admiration for the disinterested and 

 efficient work being done, alike in the interest of the white 

 man and the black, by the government officials whom I 



Group of skin-laden mules passing by the Bondoni waterhole on 



their way to the railroad 

 From a photograph by Kertnit Roosevelt 



met in East Africa. They are men in whom their country 

 has every reason to feel a just pride. 



We lunched with the American missionaries. Mission 

 work among savages offers many difficulties, and often the 

 wisest and most earnest effort meets with dishearteningly 

 little reward; while lack of common-sense, and of course, 

 above all, lack of a firm and resolute disinterestedness, in- 

 sures the worst kind of failure. There are missionaries who 

 do not do well, just as there are mea in every conceivable 

 walk of life who do not do well; and excellent men who 

 are not missionaries, including both government officials 



