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DISILLUSION.

The negro, as I have already said in the foregoing, is often compared to a child. Let us rather say he resembles a schoolboy. A schoolboy in the third form stands approximately in the same relationship to his teacher, as the black man to his white master. The schoolboy respects his master if the latter be a man of parts and energy. He observes him with instinctive sharpness and is merciless in discovering his weak spots. He displays a childish delight in devising nick-names which have the habit of sticking. He makes merry over the weaknesses or peculiarities he has discovered and exploits them, whenever possible, for his own advantage. And when a new headmaster appears in the class-room, a master who is able to impress him in one way or another, then he indulges in sudden and indiscriminate outbursts of enthusiasm.

When the English finally occupied Dar-es-Salaam — as was to have been expected from the foregoing — the native population at first indulged in great demonstrations of delight. For the coming of the Briton was an exciting event, he himself an interesting novelty. The English troops marched in with bands and much military fol-de- rol. The Indian shops, the stocks of which had grown so scanty during the lengthy period of war, were once