A Noble Savage.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 7

A Noble Savage.

A London contemporary says : — Dr. Oscar Lens, the Austrian who has walked, unharmed by fcavage or by disease, through the heart of Africa, will have to be dealt with severely at Exeter Hall. Here is the scandalous reporb which he brings concerning the net result of missionary operations on the African coast : — ul ßhe negroes who are taught to read and write mostly become unfit for any manual occupation. They consider themselves as good as a white man, think it undignified to toil, and when not engaged in holding large and noisy prayer meetings, at which every man wants to take his turn at preachings they roam about begging, and take it very ill if they cannot livo altogether on doles from their white fellow-Christians. The European factories have learned to beware of these men, and will not give them employment, so most of them end by relapsing into barbarism and vagabondage, their lasfc state being worse than the first, as the renegade negro Christian almost always frurna criminal. '

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