e.

"Don't you know how to behave!" demanded Schubert.

The native made no answer.

"If you don't salute properly I'll order you thrown down and thrashed
again!"

The native saluted in a sort of imitation of the German military manner.

"Now, will you lie in wait for the bwana makubwa to trouble him with
your pig's affairs again?"

"No."

"Will you go back home?"

"Yes."

"You've learned a lesson, eh?"

"Yes.

"Then say thank you!"

"Thank you!"

"Rrruksa!"* [*Ruksa, you have leave to go.]

The poor wretch turned and went, staggering rather than walking, to the
door and disappearing into outer darkness without a backward glance.

"Now for some more songs and a round of drinks!" Schubert shouted.

But Fred was no longer in mood to make music, or even to be civil. He
shut the concertina up, and asked the Jew how much he owed. The
sergeants went on singing without music, and while we waited for the
Jew to reckon up Fred's score Schubert came over to us, sat down
between me and Fred, and proceeded to deal with the new situation in
proper German military manner, by direct assault.

"Always you English criticize!" he began. "Can you never travel
without applying your cursed standards to everything you behold? I
tell you, we Germans know how to rule these black people! We
understand! We employ no sickly sentiment! We give orders--they obey,
or else suffer terribly and swiftly! In that manner we arrive at
knowing where we are!"

"Are you well loved by the people?" Fred asked him politely.

"Bah! Sie wollen wohl beliebt werden!* Not I! Not we! Of what value
is the love of such people? Their fear is what we cultivate! Having
made them afraid of us, we successfully make them work our will! But
why should I trouble to explain? In a few years there will only be one
government of Africa! One, I tell you, and that German! You English
are not fit to govern colonies! You are mawkishly sentimental! You
think more of the feelings of a black man and of the rights of his
women than of progress--advancement--kultur! Bah! I tell you they
have no feelings a real man need consider! They are only fit for
furthering the aims of us Germans! And their women have no rights!
None whatever! You know, I suppose, that it is the policy of the
German government to encourage the spread of Muhammedanism in Africa?
Well, under the Muhammedan law as given in the Koran women have no
souls! That is good! Th