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THE BIBLE AND THE -EMPIRE

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Matabeleland. The Governor and the British Government, as documents in this book show, deliberately backed

not

for these moved forward over Lobengula and in the į his pepple. In passing, Rhodes also Champoinj" "Wat "planning moved forward over Moffat, to whose add conquest of Mashonaland and dignified protests" he strongly objected, and whom, when they met, he "rated like a dog.. for misconduct not for neglect of duty, but because he owned allegi- ance to a Higher Power than that of men." And the result of owning allegiance to any Power other than Cecil Rhodes in South Africa in 1896 was that, if you were a Government shunted" to a servant, you were

In "John Smith Moffat," a bio graphy of bis father, Mr. R. U. Moffat has missed a great opportunity, but one which, as the son of his father, up the Company in some of the meanest and most treacherous he could hardly be expected to take negotiations by which white men A perfectly frank and fearless biobave ever lured a native king to his graphy of J. S. Moffat would have doom and won his land. Now, been a wonderful book; for Meffat's

in theory Moffat was a servant of psychology was most curious, and circumstances placed him in a posithe British Government, and in no way connected with the Chartered tion in which that psychology played Company. The attentive reader of a part in the sordid tragedy of im this book can hardly fail to be left in perial history. Mr. R. U. Moffat

a complete maze as to what the would have had to have the peculiar actual relations of Moffat were to gifts of the author of Father and Son, if he was to write the kind of book the Company when he went to Matabelelard in 1887. According which might have been written, but

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subordinate post in Taungs and re- tired at the age of sixty-one on a pension of £188 a year-New States. man.

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it is too much to expect two such filial to his biographer he had no rela tions with it at all beyond those biographers in a single generation.

which necessarily arose from his J.S. Moffat was born a missionary, official position and duties, and he the son of a missionary, at the_ms"received specific instruction from sionary station of Kuruman in Bech-his official superiors to the effect that panaland in 1835, many years before he was in no way to identify himself! Perhaps the most extraordinary imperialism, as we know it, invented with the Company, or its interests." life of any led by the Chinese poor its peculiar mission in South Africa. The attentive reader will, therefore, is that of the sanpan-man. One first In these days the only mission of be rather astonished to learn later in civilitation, carried by the wine to the book that, when Modat went to meets sampars, at Pecang if one is the black races, was that which is Matabeleland in 1890, he stipulated travelling east from home. They found in the Bible or the second part that "in the event of his death pre- are also to be found at Singapore, of it. Moffat's father was himself vision should be made for his wife,

Borrien but one doesn't meet the true sampan- rather a remarkable man and, as a and that provision was made, not by man, until one reaches Hongkong. preacher of the word of Christ, he the Government in whose service From there northwards all ports, all acquired great influence and repula- he was ostensibly employed, but by river towns, in fact every seabcard tion among the natives not only in the Chartered Company in the village has in multitude of sampans. derived from ferrying people to and all get inside! Two little girls of seven Bechuanalard, but as far north as share of interest-bearing debenture in type the vessels differ exceedingly. from ships moored in the stream to or eight put an sar out over one side Matabeleland. J. S. Moffat followed shares of the Chartered Company'

The South China sampan is bigger the mainland. They are eager and and pull with a will. The old grand- literally in his footsteps, first as an of the value of £2,000. Whatever and roomier than any other; it is willing to do this for the most mother works ber ulo and steers right Unofficial missionary among the were the real relations between the quite 25 feet long, and carries a mast paltry sums at any hour of the day aft. The younger couple will have Matabele, and later, as an cfcial ex-missionary and the millionaires, and sail and at least three cars as or night. At a huge port in Southern uloes or cars sticking out somewhere missionary. in Kuruman itself. they led to a psychological and well as its primary propellent the China, should one be wanting to re else, all-excépt probably the Some of Meffat's peculiar character historical tragedy. According to his "lo, which, of course, is worked torn to the ship at a late hour-say, old grandfather swing, away at istics began to show themson, when Moffat started for Mata- selves at once. He was man beleland, he believed in the good over the stern. They have the up two in the morning, strolling dewn, something. The old grandfather with, on the surface, very decided intentions of the millionaires and in lifted square bows and raised stern to the water's edge one can see the sits for ard-seemingly rapt în views, and all through his life, by their bozesty of purpose; he saw the typical of all Chinese craft from the thick mass of sampans all moored thoughts of a thousand years ago, five-masted ses going junk to the up and apparently secured for the his old inconceivably wrinkled face rome fatality, be seems to have been terrible features in the Matabele tampan. Uoing is a subtle art; night. But no sooner has one'svoice showing no interest; and no emotion, led into situations where his own regime he was certain that the clash there is merely a hollow in the ulo or footstep been heard on the quay his half-shut eyes peering through Views clashed with these of the between the oncoming millionaires which fits into a nob in the stern of the wall than a black bead is seen the gloom without expression. Then purple with whom he had te werk. and the Matabele who stood in their campan: a rope is then fitted to the to emerge from one of the one realises that they have begun His life was therefore a perpetual path must come in the near future ; inboard end of the, ulo and made mass of vessels, then other their sampan song one doesn't quarrel enter with superiors er and he conceived it to be his mission fast to the boat just beneath it. So signs of life become apparent notice its beginning bat merely that sutudinales, and, as he was to help to effect the charge from when away the coolie stands with through the gloom, and voices from it has begun.—a queer, rhythmical practically always unsuccessful in the autocracy - of Lebengula getting his view accepted, it was also 10 the beneficent rule of the his right hand on the rope and his many sampans hail one sleepy but song, sung by all the family, young

left on the ulo and sways from side eager voices, all shouting, Bey, and old. They all sway backwards.. ore lorg failure. At the age of 45; Chartered. Company rearefully to side as he works.

master, sampan 1" or "Hey, master, and forwards to the time of the queer mainly wirg to his querrels with and honestly. We do not agestion

The little vessel is to the sampan me you!"-thereby implying that chant, and one can just see their colleagues at Kuruman, he resigned this reading of Moffat's psychology in from the Lorden Missionary Seciery 1887. But he very soon learnt the man his sole means of livelihood.his is your sampan. One selects a fares with their varied expressions and entered Government service Hereal objects of the Company and the It is also bis home and the home of sampan indiscriminately and climbs as they sway to their work. Delight- remaired a Government servant for real nature of the means adopted by his wife and family. In the South alt into the little well reserved for fully simple and honest faces they twenty-six years, and in 1896 hethem to gain their end. He received, the whole family live together passengers, and soon the sleepy coolie look-yeta Chinaman is always the retired from a very subordinate too, cfficial orders from the Governor happy and cheery in their sampan. has cast off and lit a guttering candle arch villain of a certain type of novell position with a pension of £188 a to connive at tricking Lobengula into The family consists as a rule of an lamp. With much greaning and The sampan moves rapidly through year. It is these twenty-six years making the Lippert Concession which old mother, or rather grandmother, gruating be shoves bis ulo over the the water; one feels the bump of the which, both from the psychological was intended to be, and was, a large whom I mention first as being side, and slowly the sampan bumps waves on her flat bow, and sees the, and the histerical point of view, form pail in bis coffin. As his son tells us, undoubtedly the most important, its way through all the other now vivid green of the bow-wave as she parts the fiery, phosphorescent water by far the most interesting portion of "needless to say, to Moffat the whole Then there is the old lady's husband slumbering craft into the stream,.

and their son a man of about thirty, Once clear, the old grandmother All too soon, very often, the lights the bicgraphy. Ficm 1885 to 1887 thing was repugnant in the extreme"; Meffet was Resident Magistrate in it was so repugnant that he protested The son has his wife and usually appears with the infant of the family of the gangway appear and one steps Bechuanaland, and from 1887 · to jcontinually

-the Governor three children and a tiny Infant in strapped to her back. This infant, on board ship, gives the old lady her.. „1890 he was British. Representative againas. bis Junctions and arms This whole family all live wide-eyed and vacant-looking, has fere, and watches them all disappear in Matabeleland. During these last carried them The result, and nourists to their sampan They been roused from its slumbers to be once more into the darkness the three years he was, aaa representative when the time was ripe, was are, in fact, only allowed, ashore at swayed about on the back of tech, old man will sitting up right of the British Government, a trusted the Victoria ;" incident,”;

cold certain times for certain periods, grandmother while she ulos in the forʼard, still in the same position, adviser of the Matabele king, blooded macro" which drew They live almost solely on rice, stern. One by one the entire family presiding over all, with a real

dignity-Manches Lobengule. It was a crucial moment another dignified protest from which they cook at a little stove crawls out, from the inside of the hand

Their source of income is sampanheaven knows, how theya. Guardiane In the life of Lobengula and is the Molat, and Rhodes: and : Jameson

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