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German exploration of Africa, and it is now a well-established fact that the part which Germany has played in the development of
Africa is a very important one. Although Germany has only
just begun her efforts to develop and administer her African territories of more than a million miles in area, no history of Africa would be complete which did not recognize the work which has been achieved by Germans in the geographical development, and in ethnographical, botanical and linguistic research.”
Germany’s “Little War.”
In 1899, the same authority paid a warm tribute to German efficiency on the Zanzibar coast, commending the beautiful towns, roads and plantations, and remarking that German East Africa would enable the Teuton “to educate and raise into a higher state of civilization a vigorous native people.” He likewise supported the German side of the case against the Hereros and Hottentots in German South-West Africa. The uprising of the Hereros, though largely fomented by hostile agents, has generally been used as capital against Germany, though differing in no wise from the innumerable “little wars” to which British historians refer so lightly when they occur in British colonies.
Johnston acknowledges that the German government prosecuted employees of the East Africa Company and others who had been guilty of abusing the blacks— “Germany wisely did not hush up these affair s, but investigated them in an open court and punished the guilty .” After saying that the unmixed Teuton, Dutchman or