Ismailia - A Narrative Of The Expedition To Central Africa By Sir Samuel W. Baker
 -  No thefts had been allowed, nor even those trifling
annexations of property which are distinguished from stealing by the
innocent - Page 563
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No Thefts Had Been Allowed, Nor Even Those Trifling Annexations Of Property Which Are Distinguished From Stealing By The Innocent Name Of "Cribbing." Not A Garden Had Been Disturbed; The Tempting Tobacco Plantations Had Been Rigidly Respected, And The Natives Could Only Regard My Troops As The Perfection Of Police.

They were almost as good as London police - there were no areas to the houses, neither insinuating cooks or housemaids, nor even nursemaids with babies in perambulators, to distract their attention from their municipal duties.

Among my troops there was an excellent young man, named Ramadan, who was the clerk of the detachment. This intelligent young fellow was a general favourite among our own men, and also among the natives. He had a great aptitude for languages, and he quickly mastered sufficient of the Unyoro to make himself understood.

I arranged that Ramadan should become the schoolmaster, as it would be useless to establish commerce as a civilizing medium without in some way commencing a system of education.

Ramadan was proud at the idea of being selected for this appointment.

There was a son of Kittakara's, of about nine years old, named Cherri-Merri. This nice little boy had paid us many visits, and had become a great favourite of my wife's. He usually arrived after breakfast, and was generally to be found sitting on a mat at her feet, playing with some European toys that were his great delight, and gaining instruction by conversation through the interpreter.

Although Cherri-Merri was a good boy, he possessed the purely commercial instinct of Unyoro.

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