S.A. 202
THE LATE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR IN HIS STATE CARRIAGE 206
H.S.H. HAMUD BIN MUHAMAD BIN SAID, THE LATE
SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR 210
A GERMAN "FACTORY" AT TANGA, THE STORE BELOW, THE
LIVING APARTMENTS ABOVE 214
SOUDANESE SOLDIERS UNDER A GERMAN OFFICER OUTSIDE
OF TANGA 218
THE CONGO AND COASTS OF AFRICA
I
THE COASTERS
No matter how often one sets out, "for to admire, and for to see,
for to behold this world so wide," he never quite gets over being
surprised at the erratic manner in which "civilization" distributes
itself; at the way it ignores one spot upon the earth's surface, and
upon another, several thousand miles away, heaps its blessings and
its tyrannies. Having settled in a place one might suppose the
"influences of civilization" would first be felt by the people
nearest that place. Instead of which, a number of men go forth in a
ship and carry civilization as far away from that spot as the winds
will bear them.
When a stone falls in a pool each part of each ripple is equally
distant from the spot where the stone fell; but if the stone of
civilization were to have fallen, for instance, into New Orleans,
equally near to that spot we would find the people of New York City
and the naked Indians of Yucatan.
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