The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-23
would. it is obvious, have willingly re

| would. it is obvious. have willingly re-
! corded a very different story:
| II think. however, quite the most Curl
! Gus instance of the thiuness of surface
| civilization among these people came to
| me in the case of q young Zulu girl who
! had been early left an orphan and had
/ been carefully trained in a clergyman's
| family. She was about sixteen years old
| when she came as my nursefuaid, and was
| very plump and conely with a beamjnS
F.! countenance, and the sweetest voice and
! prettiest manners possible. She had
/ great love of music, and performed hir-
! moriouSly enough on an accordion as well
/ as on several queer little pipes and reeds.
| She could speak. read and write Duteh
| perfectly, well Us Zulu. and was nearly
| as proficient in English She carried Il lit
| tie Bible always in her pocket. and often
tried my gravity by dropping or one knee
by my SIDE whenever she caught me sit
ting, down and alone. and beginning 10
read aloud from il. 1t WIS quite a new
possession, ana she had rot got beyond
the opening chapters of Genesis, and de-
lighted in the story OF Dam and Eva, as
she called our first parents She proved
an excellent nurse and thoroughly trust
worthy; the children We're devoted to her,
especially the baby, who learned to speak
Zulu before English and to throw a reed
assegai as soon as he could stand firmly
on his little fat legs. l brought her 10
England after she had been about a year
with me, and she adapted herself
marveiously and unhesitatingly to the
conditions OF a civilization far be-
yond what she had ever dreamed
of \ friend Of mine
CHANGED to be returning to Natal. and
proposed that I should spare my Zulu
nurse to her. Her husbands raaSistracy
being close to where Marias tribe dweLt.
it seemed Il good opportunity for Malta
to return to her own country; so Of
course let her go. begging my friend to
tell me how the girl got on. The parting
from the little boy was a Misunderstanding
scene, was Malta at NIL comtorted by
the fine clothes all my friends insisted on
giving her Not even q huge Gains0o-
rough hat garn.shed with giant popIles
could console her for leaving her Little
chieftain': but it was at MI events some
thing. TO send her off so comfortably pro-
vided for. and with two large boxes OF
good clothes. In the course of few
months [ received a letter from my
friend who was then settled III her up
country home, but her story OF Maria
doing seemed welI-nigh incredible, though
perfectly true All had gone Well on the
voyage and so long US they remained at
Durham and Maritzburs'; but as soon IS
the distant settlement was reached.
Marin's kinsmen came around her and
heean to claim some share in her prosper
ity Free fights We're of constant occur
renee and in one of them Mara using
the skull of an OK as a weapon. broke ler
sisters leg. Soon after that she returned
to the savage life she had not known
since her infancy, ana took It with de-
light. [ don't know what became of her
clothes. but she had presented herself
before my friend clad in old sack and
with necklaces of wild animals teeth,
and proudly announced she had just been
married with cows-thus showing how
completely her Christianity had fallen
away from her. and she had practically
: returned, on the first opportunity to the
depth of that savagery from which she
had been taken before she could even re-
! member it. soon lost all trace OF her.
but Malla's story has always remained N
my mind as an amusing instance OF the
strength of race-inStinct.
TENDENCY TO REVERSlON-
The causes Of such reversions. which in
dictate We repeat, d genera! tendency 10
reversfon when once the white authority
10 wirhdrawn. are. we conceive, twofold.
one is thrt we underrate the immense
burden in the way of self-c0utro-, habits
and ocediences which Western CIVILIZATION
Laws upon its subjects, q burden Which lll-
eludes first a strict moral law Wn!ci Il
has ia ken centuries TO drive into our own
peoDle-they have hardly .uiolDed II lu.ls
vet as we see whenever for any reason
restraint is ithdrawn-secondiy' poi
rfcal law cur.ous!y unsulted 10 any out
white rempsra ulent!s. and. thirdly, cere-
r,sniaI law involving dress, food, educ$t-
ron Worship, methods Of ccurtSnip- SUD
iects of cOnverS- ton, III factr the
details of life from the greatest % 49,
most minute The moment that Du! 80
i felt the man w'no llas not oee'i
for generations to endure IT, u -
wrrnr.d into endurance by oplL-oi'
aasira 10 throw ii OF and Ia DC
! INDEPENDENT Of it: reVeTSs. ID Ca E,fts cnr-
49,, a., Tainc, If there IS no "hitS cox
-, 80 t,,rfIensorne ard more 15tts
~, II vas SIidhat Pasha, we Fei'isi-i-
her. one of tbs aD.esl iuFh+ "iI' 81
lived ryho pronounced Er'1SpS-'ti
etuuettes to be 5tpsoiute.S ?5s,r ~ 90
- tatol n any true enjoyment OF
;aI ,.sa the other cause Is noS 50 eet
r,t Il appears TO us 10 exist. We
,ar can only use cur own CnfsllStit
t!.I;aa.:or as cur instrument for raising
tha Interior races. and 1t Is az ieasS pcs
sf,Ie ,;,at other civilizations equaits S.iF49-
TIA, might exist winch might suit tEe-ii
,,ucr better but which they are h0s a.
rnn.ad to develop freely. The ooject OIL
-" lining of the dark people is always
- ,rn4,,.a a type; that type Is from the
a,na:rtons necessarily ours: End u Is az
leas+ nnssible that there are. and ought
- -. many types all equally aceeptao.e
~ the higher powers. There IS no better
,v,,a smone civilized men taah t.dt u
- En,lfsh u,.r,i.,ter eff eny church, but
NJ, lark man in the word. II LETT TO hfsn-
self fer a generation, Will even Il ne re-
fairs the faith in It's purity pc eSact!s
like that.
And lastly. we nre all in an absurd
hurry We forget that the dark men or
the second generation are not converts at