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to eat the herds which they persist in treating as ornaments 
rather than as made for use. 
Many of the natives work for the settlers, as cattle- 
keepers, as ostrich-keepers, or, after a fashion, as laborers. 
The settlers evidently much prefer to rely upon the natives 
for unskilled labor rather than see coolies from Hindostan 
brought into the country. At Sir Alfred Pease’s ranch, as 
at most of the other farms of the neighborhood, we found 
little Wakamba settlements. Untold ages separated em¬ 
ployers and employed; yet those that I saw seemed to get 
on well together. The Wakamba are as yet not sufficiently 
advanced to warrant their sharing in the smallest degree in 
the common government; the ‘'just consent of the governed” 
in their case, if taken literally, would mean idleness, famine, 
and endless internecine warfare. They cannot govern them¬ 
selves from within; therefore they must be governed from 
without; and their need is met in highest fashion by firm 
and just control, of the kind that on the whole they are 
now getting. At Kitanga the natives on the place some¬ 
times worked about the house; and they took care of the 
stock. The elders looked after the mild little humped cat¬ 
tle—bulls, steers, and cows; and the children, often the 
merest toddlers, took naturally to guarding the parties of 
pretty little calves, during the day-time, when they were 
separated from their mothers. It was an ostrich-farm, too; 
and in the morning and evening we would meet the great 
birds, as they went to their grazing-grounds or returned to 
the ostrich boma, mincing along with their usual air of 
foolish stateliness, convoyed by two or three boys, each 
with a red blanket, a throwing stick, copper wire round his 
legs and arms, and perhaps a feather stuck in his hair. 
