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civilized world, will be the retribution for her barbarous 

 interlude of running amok. Is it not our duty, not only 

 to ourselves but to all civilization, to see that our trade 

 is never again conducted in any way that might tempt 

 Germany to fling aside a treaty as a ' scrap of paper ' ? " 



Miss Edith iJrowne, judging by her paper, evidently 

 agrees with much that we have just said, and therefore we 

 hope that her lecture will be widely distributed and read — 

 then those who have done so will, if they have the good of 

 the Empire at heart, go out to Latin-America and hunt the 

 Hun out of our preserves (that is, out of the centres 

 developed with our capital), as he is slowly but surely 

 being hunted by the Allies out of France and Belgium. 



In a portrait sketch of Miss i-3rowne, published on p. 8 

 of the same issue of Tropical Life, we pointed out how 

 genuinely anxious Miss Edith Browne was and still is to 

 push the interests of the Empire in whatever position and 

 sphere that she believes she can be of the greatest use. 

 To do this she can well be described as having chosen the 

 calling of a Peter the Hermit in favour of a crusade against 

 the ignorance and indifference of the people of the Emipire, 

 and especially of this country, to the wealth that lies in our 

 ■Colonies, and to the romance and world-power that awaits 

 us if we lead in the development of Latin America, instead 

 of letting it fall into the hands of the Huns and infidels. 

 Not only is she carrying on the campaign described, but 

 in doing so she offers an excellent example of what we have 

 always maintained to be quite possible, viz., that healthy, 

 energetic women from this country can go to Latm 

 America and to the full Tropics without harm, and that 

 they can become the stronger and more vigorous by their 

 sojourn there, instead of only the other way round. But 

 to do so you must be interested in life and Nature for itself, 

 not for the sensations and excitement that are obtainable 

 from them in great cities, above all you must be healthy in 

 mind, body and disposition, as then, and then only, will the 

 world appear to be healthy to you. 



Since, therefore. Miss Browne has proved beyond a doubt 

 that an English woman, not yet acclimatized to the full 

 Tropics, can lead a strenuous life out there, always on the 

 move, often undertaking long journeys under rough con- 

 ditions in order to attain her ends, and as, when doing so, 

 she has always found, thanks to her disposition, that all 

 races on all the rungs in their social ladder were equally 

 anxious to help her achieve her object, we were glad when 

 we heard that the Royal Colonial Institute had invited her 

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