WHO IS THE HERO?

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The negro has often been compared to a child. The ° comparison is in many respects a correct one, in others fl­it is lame and halt. According to my experience it is b

true that the negro possesses, like most children, an im h

corruptible feeling for right and wrong and a simple a

hearted admiration for the great, the manly and ths n

heroic. Gladly does he look up to the strong man who fi does not misuse his strength, and when he regards : g

man as a hero, he will follow him through thick and thin. a

Every official, every explorer who has travelled con g siderably among these people — every officer of protec tl torate troops will be able, even from his experience it d times of peace, to confirm the statement that a whits d

man may depend upon the blacks, precisely in that de 0

gree in which they regard him as »/loc/arr«. »Hodari d is rather a difficult word to translate, but it may be said cl to express all those attributes which were compact in ths n Roman »virfus«: bodily strength and tenacity, strom a will, absence of fear in the presence of danger, persona venturesomeness — in short, manliness. It was thes ^ qualities which brought about such a close and ferven f attachment on the part of the first troops of Generi a Wissman, many of whom were former English soldier. 1 11