A Noble Savage

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

A Noble Savage

A London contemporary says :—Dr. Oscar Lens,"the Austrian who : has walked, unharmed by'savage, or by disease, through the heart of Africa, will have to be dealt with severely at Exeter Hall. Here is the scandalous report which he brings concerning tlxe.net result of missionary operations on the African coast:—" The negroes who are taught to read and, write mostly become xuifit for any manual occupation, ri 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 s which every man 'wants to take his turn at preaching, they roam about begging,. and take it very ill if they cannot live.'altogether on doles from their white fellow-Cnristians: The European factories have learned to beware of those men,, and will not give them employment,' so most of them end by relapsing into barbarism and vagabondage; then- last state being worse than the first, as the renegade negro Christian almost always turns criminal, 7 ' ... .