The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-16


eight inch lenses were useless. It
required an exposure Of from one-fifth
Of a second 20 a full second to obtain
any result at MONDAY. In the morn
ing and evening It was a perpetual
gloom. The only chances for photo
graphic work were along the rivers.
in the few open glades that were en-
countered. and I'm the cleared spaces
near the native villages" The okapi.
the pygmies. the elephants. got away
In the Jungle. But many fine pictures
we're caught In the towns and open
country and along the rivers. The
traveller does much more than work
up a text for these pictures to u
to: his report Of the people or this
fast changing land II Intelligent and
valuable. The travellers came upon
numerous mementoes Of Stanlcy's ex-
petitions.
The we'll known hunting grounds
within a few days march Of Nairobi
are being steadily clipped by advance
ing agriculture. Coffee growing.
though az yet not fairly past the ex-
perimental stage, seems likely Ia at
tain profitable proportions. and as the
farmers and planters throw out their
fences the game retreats. East Africa
formerly derived no incons!derable
revenue from the hunters Of big game.
Sport brought into the country money
that stayed there. II gave employ
ment to thousands Of natives and kept
commercial enterprise astir. That re-
GREETED industry" may boast that In
a month one big safari. hunting cxpe-
dillon. spent more money than twenty
well to do families would in the same
time: but East Africa Is developing
better bread and butter than
that. The hunt is developing into a self
destroying AFFAIR. for after the real
sportsman came the ARMED tourist"
anxious only to taNe out the largest
possible booty In peits and unscrupu-
lous as to the methods by which they
might be got. Poisoned bait came into
. by these people. as even more GER
tain than q pack Of good dogs. and
strychnine scored bigger bags than
gunpowder. Il know from expe-
rience." says the reporter. that this
Ii fact. This unsportsmanlike pro-
cedure 10 more often resorted to than
reported"
Going by railroad from Nairc'bi out
toward Victoria Nysnza. passing sta
tons with crowded platforms. farms
and plantations along the line, II is
hard to believe that only twenty-five
or thirty years ago rivers and noun
tains were marked into the maps Of
this region largely by guesswork. and
towns by imagination. Peace, perfect
peace does not reign here. however,
even as prosperity increases. The
settlers whose business leads them to
regard Africa as a permanent hcme
want a more immediate government
than that which Downing Street af-
fords. The appetite for self-govern-
ment grows fast. and acquisition OF
another 10000 or so OF white settlers
may precipitate the issue. But no
such increase as that will diminish
the seriousness OF the problems that
must be faced where the back mar Is
in the overwhelming majority:
II q prize were offered for the hes,
treatise on how to make the black man a
worker. or one who looks for labor. tbs
candidates would belong to two classes
Most writer's would treat the proposition
as a Joke. and the others would in ali
probability belong to the stern old fash
toned believers In forced service and Bodily
chas,isement. Perhaps there might he q
few theorists who stiii believe that BY
carly education. leading And teaching the
black could be so instructed as to see ths
tt-plb ~ Ayarnn1 That's attn.
sions would be more amusing than those Of
the professed humorists. The white Man,
Burden no more loves the prospect Of hard
work than does his pale faced brother
who has been initiated into the luxuriou,
holiday system Of an up TO date labor or
ganization.
This Is somewhat superficial. per
haps. The white man takes the back
mans land away from him and forces
upon the sufficiently happy barbarian
an unhappy civilization. Conversion
to the white mans creed Of labor ant
laws Of property is a long. unavoid'
ably more or less painful process
Far vision may possibly be optimistic
with reason. Aside from the broad
comprehensive racial bearing Of II all
the uplifting of the race is pro-
ductive of most amusing experiences
How much essential difference is there
between some happy-go-lucky speci
mems Of our Southern darby and thu
breech clouted African? Mr.. Barne!
finds them pretty much alike.
II he Is kindly disposed toward you h,
wishes to please you: II you ask him
question he will give you an answer tina
he thinks you would like TO get, general,
without the ieas, regard TO Its bearing Of
the actual situation. II he possesses any
thing he wants you 10 see II. he II a learne,
vocabulary, a silk ha, and a diamond pin
or a yard OF red calico.
He has manifold delinQuencies, an,
many qualities that are interesting
amusing and quite endearing Trea
the African with patience. forbearance
firmness and a sense OF humor. and h,
will give-quite In his W way-th
best that he has to give. He Is i'm
provident. Three days after a safari !
paid off. there Is not likely to be amonl
each decade OF porters one who has
cent. One boy will buy a couple o
Cling from his belt when he has no
the slightest knowledge how to rea'
the dial. Another will buy brown but
tom boots or patent feathers and SUI
fer agonies. One of them. "a stock,
little Kikuyu, a consistent loafer an
malingerer," apparently got into
ladies' furnishing shop, for he appeare
after pay day gloriously attired In
cheap lace chemise, gathered with pin
r,hhons. tucked into n pair of Yer