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various indigenous races, whose component members, 

 whilst they were wholly separate organisations, 

 understood each other far too little for the certainty 

 of the continual maintenance of peace ; thus it fell 

 that in the old days of inter- tribal warfare, probably 

 the greater number of the outbreaks which took 

 place arose from a want of knowledge engendering 

 contempt, followed by the insult or offence which 

 led to strife. Nowadays all these conflicting units 

 have to a great extent been united into one homo- 

 geneous whole, and the result is that although 

 tribal designations survive, a Nyungwe from Tete 

 will fraternise or even ally himself with the family 

 of a Sena man from Shupanga, or either with a 

 Mahindo from the districts near to the coast. 



It will, therefore, have been seen from the fore- 

 going that we have no nomadic tribes whatsoever ; 

 none of those predatory wanderers of warlike dis- 

 position whose destinies in North and East Africa 

 present so difficult a problem to the administrations 

 of those less favoured regions. 



The relations subsisting between the European 

 and the negro are, therefore, of an eminently 

 satisfactory character, and the most unmistakable 

 proofs of this are the aptitude the latter displays 

 in the field of labour, and his willingness to work 

 in the service of the white. I do not think the 

 Bantu of this part of the great continent will for 

 many generations prove suitable for other purposes 

 than these, nor, as I have frequently asserted, is it 

 necessary that he should. He has such an important 

 part to play in the development of the country 

 that, truth to tell, he could not be spared to fill 



