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Title: Travel letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937
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Publisher: Topeka, KS : Crane & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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30 p. m. we passed out of thetropics. . . . For two days we have been in thatpart of the Red Sea which is two hundred mileswide, and have not seen many ships; but tonight wewere in a narrow part, and four ships were in sightat one time. All of them were small; there aremany ships in the east, but no very big ones. If oneof the big ships of the Atlantic should appear at Bom-bay or Colombo, people would travel hundreds of milesto see it. . . . The general impression in Americais that an English lord is an effeminate little man whoonly knows enough to carry an eyeglass in one eye.As a matter of fact, some of them seem to be quiteuseful and manly. Lord Delamere is one of the con-spicuous figures in the development of British EastAfrica, and has done much for that country. In ad-dition, he is the worlds greatest lion-hunter. Up to1911, he had killed seventy lions, single-handed. Ofthe first forty-nine he shot, not one escaped. No otherlion-hunter has a record half as good as Lord Delamere.
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NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, AND AFRICA. 421 Another useful man in Africa is Lord Carnworth, whois an extensive farmer, as is Lord Delamere. Boththese men engage in expensive agricultural experimentsfor the general good. Lord Carnworth lately wrote abook entitled, A Colony in the Making. It dis-plays a wonderful knowledge of British East Africa.Among other things, he says the American hunterswho come here are game hogs, and places Mr. Roose-velt in that class. He also speaks jestingly of thedangers of hunting in Africa. The terrible rhino, whichin books is never content unless he has a hunter im-paled on his single terrible horn, is not thought to bedangerous by hunters who live in this country. . . .In his book, Lord Carnworth discusses the native laborquestion quite frankly. He says what practically allthe whites here say: that the missionaries are doingno good—that their converts are worse than the un-converted negroes. I quote his exact language : Inevitably but unfortunately the mis

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