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fact that in such a country the missionary should either 

 already know how to, or else at once learn how to, take the 

 lead himself in all kinds of industrial and mechanical work. 

 Finally the effort is made consistently to teach the native 

 how to live a more comfortable, useful, and physically and 

 morally cleanly life, not under white conditions, but under 



Mr. Roosevelt after luncheon with the head missionary 

 From a photograph by Kennit Roosevelt 



the conditions which he will actually have to face when he 

 goes back to his people, to live among them, and, if things 

 go well, to be in his turn a conscious or unconscious mission- 

 ary for good. 



At lunch, in addition to the missionaries and their wives 

 and children, there were half a dozen of the neighboring 

 settlers, with their families. It is always a good thing to see 

 the missionary and the settler working shoulder to shoulder. 

 Many parts of East Africa can, and I believe will, be made 

 into a white man's country; and the process will be helped, 



