FIRST FOREWORD.

We are in peril of being robbed of our beloved German East Africa. But we German East Africans know that we have won a warm and enduring place in the hearts of our black charges — and for all time.

Great traditions have been established and the natives for generations to come will again and again recount their heroic deeds to their children and their children’s children, — deeds which they accomplished under the leadership of Germans. Nor must we ourselves ever forget these things — any more than our black friends and comradesdn* arms. The incomparable faithfulness and devotion displayed by them must for all time be given a place in our history and a place in our hearts.

Dr. Hans Poeschel is well qualified to portray the thoughts and feelings of our black charges, whom he grew to know so well during his years of service in German East Africa. He shows clearly how our enemy has attempted by means of falsehoods to delude the world into the belief that the natives of our colonies had become alienated from us and preferred English rule. Dr. Poeschel has gathered a great body of material which

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