Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — African Pluck. [ARTICLE]

African Pluck.

Mr. Alfred Coode Hore, in his ElevenYears iu Central Africa, speaks .veil of the tribes of the Tanganyika region, which he finds are peaceable and industrious for the most part, but turbulent and aggressive when they have learned to dread molestation by strangers. “It seems hard,” he says, "that a man should be called lazy because he has ample leisure between his busy times; who has made with his own hands from N ature’s raw materials, his house, his axe, hoe, and spear, his clothing and ornaments, his furniture and corn-mill, and all that he has, and who, though liable often in a lifetime to have to commence the whole process over again, has the energy and enterprise to do so. Too often have the same people been called savage and bloodthirsty who, through all experience and by all their traditions regarding armed strangers as enemies, defend themselves and their own with the desperate energy which, as displayed by our own ancestral relations, we term patriotism and courage.”