Thinking black; 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central ...

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pointing your finger in future. For in this action what
do you do if not point one finger only at the black man,
and three at yourself ? So ho ! you are trebly as bad as
the man you point at. Else, why point one only at him
and bend back three on yourself? Here, then, is a gesture
you must solemnly schedule in your lexicon as The-
Hypocrisy - so - vile - that - it - accuses - another - of - an - evil - it -
itself-possesses-three-times-stronger.^ The moral of all
this is that the Missionary who goes round an African
village pointing his accusing finger at the negro ^" is
really accusing himself in a three-to-one degree. Are
they ungrateful ? Then we the finger-pointers are trebly
so 1^". Do we warn them to forget not all His benefits ?
Then our very gesture is a threefold warning to do
likewise.
(Later.)
Cut off from your nearest shop by hundreds of miles,
what a fuss there is before you shoot supper. Emerging
on our last stream for the day, we find it, not flowing, but
only dilly-dallying through a green meadow dotted all
over with red buck. Corresponding with, but by no
manner of means resembling, an English butcher's shop,
these qui vive antelopes out on the plain are the only
chance we have of filling our pots for supp-^r. A sort of
local " penny in the slot " meat-machine this, ^s^arranting
rich, red cutlets. Only instead of the unknown penny, you
slip a cartridge into the slot of your rifle and, click ! drops
dead your antelope. So much, and no more, for the local
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