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transport ; greater production and output, leading 

 to increased European colonisation ; and last, but 

 perhaps not least, the employment of this immensity 

 of Africa for the relief of congested Europe, and 

 the immediate fitting of these splendid regions not 

 so much for us who ai*e few, as for the countless 

 many who will come hereafter. The European 

 cannot produce these results. The Indian will not. 

 There is only one race left to do it, and that is the 

 race intended by nature for the task. Let the African 

 then set his house in order ; let him sweep it and 

 garnish it for those races who will show him, when 

 his task is finished, the advantages of the civilisation 

 which they bring for his adoption ; but do not rob 

 yourself by your own act of the sole means of 

 achieving this great end by educating the negro in 

 branches of learning which can only militate against 

 the accomplishment of the work he has to do. 

 Teach him the dignity and the necessity of labour 

 if you will. Teach him improved methods of 

 husbandry. Teach him trades. Make your edu- 

 cation the means and not the end, and administer 

 it only in so far as may be necessary to expound 

 a principle or make plain a fact. Then the African's 

 usefulness and understanding will grow together, 

 and neither will be sacrificed as is the case in so 

 many parts of Africa to-day. 



Now let me stop this homily on what to any 

 person acquainted with the facts must be a fairly 

 self-evident proposition, and endeavour to give 

 some account of the native communities as they 

 exist at present in the region of Zambezia*. 



There are in the whole of this large territory no 



