I Own I Regard Not Only The African, But All Coloured Races, As Inferior - Inferior In Kind Not In Degree - To The White Races, Although I Know It Is Unscientific To Lump All Africans Together And Then Generalise Over Them, Because The Difference Between Various Tribes Is Very Great.

But nevertheless there are certain constant quantities in their character, let the tribe be what it may, that enable

Us to do this for practical purposes, making merely the distinction between Negroes and Bantu, and on the subject of this division I may remark that the Negro is superior to the Bantu. He is both physically and intellectually the more powerful man, and although he does not christianise well, he does often civilise well. The native officials cited by Mr. Hodgson in his letter to the Times of January 4, 1895, as having satisfactorily carried on all the postal and the governmental printing work of the Gold Coast Colony, as well as all the subordinate custom-house officials in the Niger Coast Protectorate - in fact I may say all of them in the whole of the British possessions on the West Coast - are educated Negroes. I am aware that all sea-captains regard this latter class as poisonous nuisances, but then every properly constituted sea-captain regards custom-house officials, let their colour be what it may, as poisonous nuisances anywhere. In addition to these, you will find, notably in Lagos, excellent pure-blooded Negroes in European clothes, and with European culture.

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