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advantage of everybody that the Indians should hold, be¬ 
cause there is as yet no sign that sufficient numbers of white 
men are willing to hold them, while the native blacks, 
although many of them do fairly well in unskilled labor, are 
not yet competent to do the higher tasks which now fall to 
the share of the Goanese, and Moslem and non-Moslem 
Indians. The small merchants who deal with the natives, 
for instance, and most of the minor railroad officials, belong 
to these latter classes. I was amused, by the way, at one 
bit of native nomenclature in connection with the Goanese. 
Many of the Goanese are now as dark as most of the other 
Indians; but they are descended in the male line from the 
early Portuguese adventurers and conquerors, who were the 
first white men ever seen by the natives of this coast. Ac¬ 
cordingly to this day some of the natives speak even of the 
dark-skinned descendants of the subjects of King Henry 
the Navigator as ‘The whites,’" designating the Europeans 
specifically as English, Germans, or the like; jiist as in out- 
of-the-way nooks in the far Northwest one of our own red 
men will occasionally be found who still speaks of Americans 
and Englishmen as “Boston men” and “King George’s 
men.” 
One of the Government farms was being run by an edu¬ 
cated colored man from Jamaica; and we were shown much 
courtesy by a colored man from our own country who was 
practising as a doctor. No one could fail to be impressed 
with the immense advance these men represented as com¬ 
pared with the native negro; and indeed to an American, 
who must necessarily think much of the race problem at 
home, it is pleasant to be made to realize in vivid fashion 
the progress the American negro has made, by comparing 
