plain covered with brown and withered grass.—Page 401. 
by Edmund Heller. 
specifically as English, Germans, or the 
like; just 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 educated colored man from 
Jamaica; and we were shown much cour¬ 
tesy by a colored man from our own coun¬ 
try who was practising as a doctor. No 
one could fail to be impressed with the im¬ 
mense advance these men represented as 
compared with the native negro; and in¬ 
deed 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 him with the negro 
who dwells in Africa untouched, or but 
lightly touched, by white influence. 
In such a community as one finds in 
