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they writhe under its and don't understand the force of it, it
is of no use to add more padding, - you must take off the
Clove for a moment and show than the hand*",
fitted into certain ntereotypeol childishness# laziness#
(')
Native character
untruthfulness or faithfullneno commonly epitomized for example
by Livingotono's porters who carried his body back to the coast.
A typical view was expressed by Lord W'olsoley during the
Ashanti War on the Gold Coast in 18739 - "The negroes are like
so many monkeys{ they are a lacy, good for nothing races no
matter what Exeter Hall may say to the contrary. " U-)
the most noted representative of the Exter Hall tradition
believed intho establishment of the norms of Victorian
In fact
indu; atrialipotion in Africa, - the missionary John Mackenzie
aimed to "supersede the communistic relations of the members of
a tribe among one another$ in the frech, stimulating breath of
healthy individualistic competition. "
(3)
It was considered that
natives should be encouraged to take up wage labour on plantations
and farno s- as Lady Luge-rd wrote -
'$ **in
it enough that natives
in the loan civilized portion of the tropics should have boon
(1) Colonel R$ , S. Baden I'owoll1, The Aintn'bnle Campaipn1 London 1897,
p. 64.
(2j Tho lnttem of Lord 'rind Lndy Wo1nolny, edited by Sir George
Arthur, London 19220 polo.
(3) ltI. L). Mackonzie, 22
e p"451.