[3] There can, I can conceive, be little doubt that colour prejudice is a much greater obstacle to social intercourse in the case of the Teutonic—certainly in that of the Anglo-Saxon—races than it is in the case of Latin Europeans. Mr. Bryce (_American Commonwealth_, Vol. II., p. 355) says: “In Latin America, whoever is not black is white; in Teutonic America, whoever is not white is black.” [4] In the early days of the Soudan occupation it was thought by many that it would be impossible to abolish slavery, and that the employment of forced labour was imperative. As a matter of fact, by the display of a little patience, and without the adoption of any very heroic or sensational measures, slavery has been abolished, no forced labour has been employed, and the country is prospering. [5] See also pp. 94, 95. [6] A good deal, I conceive, depends on the number of old officials whose services are retained, and on the degree of influence they are allowed to exert. I speak under correction, but I can well imagine that the abrupt dismissal of all the experienced administrators, however unsatisfactory they may be in some respects, and the wholesale substitution of well-intentioned, but wholly inexperienced men in their place, might produce inconveniences even more serious than a certain prolongation of abuses in a mitigated and diminished form. [7] That this is the main defect of the Congo system has been frequently pointed out both by myself—in a speech in the House of Lords on February 24, 1908—and others. [8] Secretary of the Eighty Club. [9] Italics mine.—J. H. H. [10] Italics mine.—J. H. H. INDEX A Abeokuta, 101, 283 Absinthe and natives, 99 Aburi, 254, 261 Accra, 256 African, artisan, the, 109; doctor, the, 110, 120; educated, the, 108 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, 174, 201 Angola, 169 Anklets, brass, 34 “Anti-Slavery Society,” Portuguese, 138 Ants, driver, 18 B Baketi tribe, the, 24 Bakuba ” the, 29, 40 Bakwala ” the, 39 Bakwiri ” the, 252 Baluba ” the, 27 Bangalla ” the, 27 Bangalla River, 26 Baptist Mission, the, 269 Barrel rolling, 256 Barrister, native, the, 51 Basamba custom, 144, 145 Basel Mission, the, 47, 252, 269, 285 Bashilele tribe, the, 29 Basongo, 180 Batanga, 32 Batanga canoes, 13 Batetela tribe, the, 27, 178, 198 Bathurst, 294 Belgian Congo, the, 203 Belgian Congo, commerce in, 92, 154 Bell, Rev. J., 281 Benguella, 172 Benin Rubber Plantations, 242 Bennett, E. N., 96 Bihean Slave Traders, 197 Blaize, Richard, 283 Bocage, M. Du, 187 Boela tribe, the, 33 Boma, 170 Bopoto, 26 Bridewells, 176 Brine bath, the, 231 British and Foreign Bible Society the, 283 “Bula Matadi,” 152 Burial customs, 25 Burroughs Wellcome and Company, 81, 83 Burtt, Joseph, 186 Bushongo tribe, the, 28 C Cadbury—_Standard_ Trial, the, 186 Calabar Missions, 280