NEVER HEARD OF ENGLAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 69, 17 April 1909, Page 3

NEVER HEARD OF ENGLAND

Wl the Uritisli expedition now opcrat in Northern Nigeria has completed its 'work, three liitliertu iMK : onc|iierei[ tribes of snvases will have ten brought miller the dominance of the White Man. These are the Jlushis, the Abadjas, anil the Olqiotos. So the civilisation of man goes on. fiat it is slow'. .ork. For, in spite of all that 'lms liven recently accomplished, there are still more millions of barbarous folk left in the world who own allegiance, to '.lO r.'gulitr system of government, each doing that which is right in his own eyes. In the interior of New, Guinea, for Instance, there, are mine than forty distinct tribes of savages, many of them head-hunters and cannibals, who know of the existence of white people from hearsay only. They have never even heard of England. The Tchnktches of north-eastern Siberia, although supposed to be subject to llusfiia, pay no taxes, and recognise i no man as master. Indeed, Mr. Harry I lie Wiiill. who spent some time amongst | them, discovered that they had never even heard of the existence'of the Tsar. Similarly, Dr. Sven Iledin found in Tibet recently a tribe of liqmad robbers who did precisely as they pleased, pareless alike of the authority of Wie Grand Lama or the Chinese Emperor. Thcl masked Tuaregs of the central Sahara l desert are similarly free and mdepcn-| dent. I In the New Hebrides are many islands those interiors have never been -visited >y Europeans, for the simple reason hut to attempt to do so would be to ronrt certain death at the h«-.iils of th« ;reachorous and vindictive natives. A ittle to the north of Assam, too, almost ,vitbm sight of the tea-gardens and the iretty .bungalows of the planters, is the iountrv of the Fatlnmites, wherein no ivbite inan has dared, to set his foot for nt least live hundred years past,