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shape), means life, health and prosperity to 

 perhaps 100,000 of the tribes round Euwenzori, 

 of whom far more than 500 were yearly destroyed 

 by his ruffians. Justice is certainly, with natives, 

 a form of mercy. To this I have only to add that 

 amongst Englishmen there is perhaps one in a 

 hundred who is disposed to err on the side of 

 severity. 



A very curious question, which can only be 

 solved in the future, is that of how German 

 methods of dealing with natives will eventually 

 turn out. Probably if anything approaching my 

 experiences had happened to a German expedition, 

 Tengetenge and possibly the headmen of all the 

 villages within ten kilometres would have been 

 hanging on the nearest trees, before the sun set. 



There are two or three important chiefs who live 

 higher up in the mountains to the east and south 

 of the Butagu. " Hange " appears to rule a large 

 country, apparently the headwaters of the Meronji 

 river. He also sent to tell me that he wished to 

 be under the white man directly. 



