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Title: A naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott), 1862-1934
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London A.D. Innes & Co.
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History Library
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. According to Professor Engler,they have advanced considerably east of the lakealong the Malagarasi valley. Above this height (3,500 feet) the plants towardsthe south are simply those of the Tanganyika-Nyassa watershed. Probably the most interesting district left nowin Tropical Africa is the high plateau region andmountains from the Livingstone range to thenorth as far as the Malagarasi. This is said tobe in places 10,000 feet high, and I suspect willproduce the high Alpine forms. It seems almost necessary to point out here thedecline and fall of the Arab in Africa. In the days of the early travellers the wholecountry was overrun by Arab slave-traders, wThoappear to have started from the East Coast andZanzibar. The hospitality of the Arab, his courteousmanners and clean, flowing robes, appear to have THE TANGANYIKA BASIN. 283 very favourably impressed most people, and tohave hidden from them a few obvious facts whichare of great importance. One of these is that Arab or Mussulman life
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Fig. 40.—Suahili Women. means slavery, and involves the ruin, morally,mentally, and physically of every native race withwhich it has been brought into close connection.Like all Mohammedan peoples, a native race con- 284 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. trolled by Arabs is wholly incapable of mentaldevelopment. No Western ideas or methods canbe introduced until the Arabs are expelled. Thetreachery, dishonesty, and cold-blooded cruelty ofthe Arabs are innate. Their profligacy, leadingin its train all kinds of disease, means destructionphysically and morally of the subject peoples.Another fact lost sight of is that competition byEuropeans with slaveholding Arabs is impossible.The expenses of life for the white man are in-finitely greater, and he is obliged to pay hisporters and treat them with, at any rate, someregard for their life and. health. The Arab hasno compunction or obligations whatever. Unfor-tunately Europeans in some cases actually assistedto establish the Arab power on a firmer

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