German, English, and American; Portu¬ 
guese civil officials; traders of different 
nationalities; and planters and military 
and civil officers bound to German and 
British East Africa. The Englishmen in¬ 
cluded planters, magistrates, forest offi¬ 
cials, army officers on leave from India, 
and other army officers going out to take 
command of black native levies in out-of- 
the-way regions where the 
English flag stands for all 
that makes lifeworth liv¬ 
ing. They were a fine set, 
these young Englishmen, 
whether dashing army 
officers or capable civil¬ 
ians; they reminded me 
of our men who have re¬ 
flected such honor on the 
American name, whether 
in civil and military posi¬ 
tions in the Philippines 
and Porto Rico, working 
on the Canal Zone in 
Panama, taking care of 
the custom-houses in San 
Domingo, or serving in 
the army of occupation in 
Cuba. Moreover, I felt 
as if I knew most of them 
already, for they might 
have walked out of the 
388 
pages of Kipling. But I was not as well 
prepared for the corresponding and equally 
interesting types among the Germans, the 
planters, the civil officials, the officers who 
had commanded, or were about to com¬ 
mand, white or native troops; men of evi¬ 
dent power and energy, seeing whom made 
it easy to understand why German East 
Africa has thriven apace. They are first- 
From a photograph by J. Alden Boring. 
