. The new New Guinea. ). You haveimported nice, clean, sensible Indian and Chinesecoolies to fill his place; his hunting-grounds arecovered with sugar plantations, and his mountainfastnesses are haunts of the winter tourist. In fine,you have civilised the country. And as for the native ... did we say you were his keeper .?Did anyone tell the first agent of civilisation onrecord—he who built the first cities, and was theancestor of those that work in brass and iron —. A rATi;NT or To face paje 242. A BROTHERS KEEPER 243 that he was the keeper of the inconvenient personagehe dispersed
. The new New Guinea. ). You haveimported nice, clean, sensible Indian and Chinesecoolies to fill his place; his hunting-grounds arecovered with sugar plantations, and his mountainfastnesses are haunts of the winter tourist. In fine,you have civilised the country. And as for the native ... did we say you were his keeper .?Did anyone tell the first agent of civilisation onrecord—he who built the first cities, and was theancestor of those that work in brass and iron —. A rATi;NT or To face paje 242. A BROTHERS KEEPER 243 that he was the keeper of the inconvenient personagehe dispersed ? . . That is the old way of our colonies. The new way-is something so simple, yet so astonishing, that 1count myself fortunate to have had the luck of seeingit in person. It is easy to understand an account of apunitive expedition or a fight. It is not so easy tosee the inner meaning of a report that deals only witha peaceful call on a hostile tribe. 1 am glad that Iwas there to see and to realise how peace is beingmade in the West. It was a wet, warm, blowy morning, and the Gulflooked very nasty indeed. The great inlet uponwhich the Merrie England, had been pitching and roll-ing all night was livid yellow in colour under a skyof dirty grey. The little party of seven white peopleand eleven armed native police who were going ashorehad to watch their time getting into the launch andthe boat, and jump when the pitching seas beat hard in our faces
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