okers of locomotives,
though white sentiment (which tolerates them as navvies or platelayers)
made it inexpedient to place them in such positions. Many work as
servants in stores, and are little more prone to petty thefts than are
Europeans. They have dropped their old usages and adopted European
habits, have substituted European clothes for the _kaross_ of the wild
or "red" Kafir, have lost their tribal attachments, usually speak Dutch,
or even perhaps English, and to a considerable extent, especially in the
western province and in the towns, have become Christians. The Indians
are, of course, Mohammedans or heathens, the Malays (of whom there are
only about 13,000), Mohammedans. The coloured people travel a good deal
by rail, and are, especially the Kafirs, eager for instruction, which is
provided for them only in the mission schools. Some will come from great
distances to get taught, and those who can write are very fond of
corresponding with one another. Taken as a whole, they are a quiet and
orderly people, not given to crimes of violence, and less given (so far
as I could gather) to pilfering than are the negroes of the Southern
States of America. The stealing of stock from farms has greatly
diminished. Assaults upon women, such as are frequent in those States,
and have recently caused a hideous epidemic of lynching, are extremely
rare; indeed, I heard of none, save one or two in Natal, where the
natives are comparatively wild and the whites scattered thinly among
them. So few Kafirs have yet received a good education, or tried to
enter occupations requiring superior intelligence, that it is hardly
possible to speak confidently of their capacity for the professions or
the higher kinds of commerce; but judicious observers think they will in
time show capacity, and tell you that their inferiority to white men
lies less in mere intellectual ability than in power of will and
steadiness of purpose. They are unstable, improvident, easily
discouraged, easily led astray. When the morality of their old life, in
which they were ruled by the will of their chief, the opinion of their
fellows, and the traditional customs of the tribe, has been withdrawn
from them, it may be long before any new set of principles can gain a
like hold upon them.

That there should be little community of ideas, and by consequence
little sympathy, between such a race and the whites is no more than any
one would expect who elsewhere in the world has