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 na- 
From a photograph 
tive 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 con¬ 
querors, who were the first white men ever 
seen by the natives of this coast. Accord¬ 
ingly 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 
