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Christian missionaries have broken the hard ground, 

 and European (not Belgian) powers have, following in 

 their steps, begun to lay the foundations of government. 



Africa is like a chronic invalid, on whom almost every 

 quack, as well as every physician of established reputa- 

 tion, has tried his nostrums in vain. She has furnished 

 gold for a good part of the Eastern world in the past, and 

 for the Northern in the present, and provided slaves for 

 all the world from time out of mind, and still she breeds 

 her dark myriads. Still they clash among themselves 

 in unrecorded wars, and slaughter and enslave each other. 

 They speak literally in hundreds of different tongues, 

 and as Job said long ago they have no " Daysman " to 

 stand between them, no interpreter to each other or to the 

 outside world. Pestilence and famine, unchecked, un- 

 relieved, have swept away whole nations at a time. The 

 strong of the earth have enslaved and in vast regions still 

 enslave and slaughter them at will, while of themselves 

 no leader, no teacher, no governor arises to bring them 

 order; such has been Africa's fate for unrecorded ages. 

 It is in great part her fate to-day. Can any man with a 

 heart in his bosom deny her and her many children pity 

 and help ? 



The East African is not a man, he is a child, and a 

 child's education and discipline is what he needs. Eng- 

 land's coming has wrought already one profound change 

 in his environment. It has put a stop to the constant 

 blood-letting that drained the land of men. War, not 

 between tribe and tribe only, but between petty chiefs 

 and even insignificant villages, went on all over unoc- 

 cupied Africa till England or German occupation stopped it. 



Sir Charles Eliot in his admirable work on East Africa 

 has stated with substantial truth what England has ac- 

 complished, although he makes no sufficient mention of 

 what German rule has also achieved. He says, "England 



