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Title: The great plateau of northern Rhodesia, being some impressions of the Tanganyika Plateau
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gouldsbury, Cullen
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Publisher: E. Arnold,
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ributes of a good-natured, happy child. Smiles,laughter, neglectfulness, carelessness of what the morrowmay bring—these are, it would seem, the signs by which wemay know him. But is it really so ? Watch the face of the adult native m repose. Surelyin the dark eyes there is a kind of unconscious sadness ?Are there not lines upon the forehead and about the mouththat seem to argue an incessant anxiety, unrecognised,perhaps unfelt, jet none the less existent ? May it notbe that he, too, feels that pressure of the iUimitable spaces—^knows that Nature rules, and that it is futile to kickagainst the pricks ? The white man, on the other hand, has interests whichserve to distract his thoughts from such primitive pessim-ism. Upon the Plateau the European population falls,naturallj^ into four distinct classes—the administrativeofficial, the missionary, the settler, and the trader. Within the first two classes are comprised seventy percent, at least of the total. And both administrative and
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THE PLATEAU IN PERSPECTIVE 9 missionary work—wliich have a common basis, thoughdifferent methods—are fascinating enough. On the otherhand, the settler and the trader are, one presumes, makmgmoney—^which is surely sufficient to tinge any mans out-look with couleur de rose ? Again, for all alike, there is the fascination of sport, thejoy of head-huntmg, the glamour of a hfe made up of cool,fresh dawnings and camp-fire nights. For this Plateau ofours is the hunters paradise, fully equal, if not superior,to British East Africa or Uganda. There are but few horses on the Plateau as yet—two thatbelong to ancient history, having been brought up via theEast Coast route in the days of the telegraph construction,and three more that have been imported since this chapterwas first drafted. A plenitude of horses would, indeed,put the coping-stone upon our happiness. As yet, situatedmany hundred miles from railhead, hemmed in by beltsof fly, the importation seems a dangerous speculation.Yet w

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