NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA 99 



first gleam of light another miniature monarch 

 will rise in the place of the dead chief. 



The life of old N'Tanta is typical of the people 

 who inhabit the valley of the Luangwa, and for 

 the matter of that of the whole of Central Africa. 

 I do not think it can be called uneventful, and 

 it is certainly not without its own peculiar 

 interest. Perhaps you will term it a life of no 

 consequence, and yet I think it possesses some 

 features which are worthy of the consideration 

 of the most highly civilized mortals of this age. 

 Even the primitive native of Central Africa can 

 teach us something, for in his natural state he 

 is the most satisfied of all the races of the world. 

 We may scorn his nakedness and his poverty, 

 but the mad onward rush of modern life does 

 not permit us to know of the unsullied joys of 

 unfettered freedom, and they are surely his. 



