284 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



trolled by Arabs is wholly incapable of mental 

 development. No Western ideas or methods can 

 be introduced until the Arabs are expelled. The 

 treachery, dishonesty, and cold-blooded cruelty of 

 the Arabs are innate. Their profligacy, leading 

 in its train all kinds of disease, means destruction 

 physically and morally of the subject peoples. 

 Another fact lost sight of is that competition by 

 Europeans with slaveholding Arabs is impossible. 

 The expenses of life for the white man are in- 

 finitely greater, and he is obliged to pay his 

 porters and treat them with, at any rate, some 

 regard for their life and. health. The Arab has 

 no compunction or obligations whatever. Unfor- 

 tunately Europeans in some cases actually assisted 

 to establish the Arab power on a firmer basis. 

 Tippu Tib, although he coolly deserted Mr. Stanley 

 in 1878, was placed, apparently through the latter' s 

 advice, in such a position that he nearly wrecked 

 Mr. Stanley's last expedition. 



Fortunately both the Belgian and the German 

 authorities now understand that if you enter a 

 strong man's house you must first bind him ; and 

 during the last few years, the turning point of 

 African history has been reached and the Arabs 

 are now nearly turned out. 



iiumaliza, " the man who destroys utterly," the 

 strongest of them all, after tearing down a German 

 flag, crossed Tanganyika, fought, and was thoroughly 

 beaten by, the Belgians. Returning to Ujiji he 



