Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. THE INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS—LINGUISTIC GROUPS AND THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION — CHARACTERISTICS OF NEGROES AND OF NATIVE LIFE—SURVEY OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS : THEIR MENTAL, MORAL, AND MATERIAL CULTURE j THEIR POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT— CAPACITY OF THE NEGRO FOR DEVELOPING HIGHER FORMS OF CULTURE—NON-RESISTANCE, FROM THE COMPARATIVE ABSENCE OF POLITICAL COHESION IN BANTU AFRICA, AGAINST THE EUROPEAN DOMINATION—NATIVE RIGHTS AND EUROPEAN RESPONSIBILITIES. MAPS. Languages Plate X. Fobhs Of Government , XIV. Density Of Population IX. THE INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS. N former chapters we have endeavoured to elucidate interaction physical phenomena in Africa by reference to the laws governing them, and to deduce practical hints for our guidance in " opening up " the continent. In dealing with mena' the political aspects of our subject, we shall see in how far they have been controlled by physical causes. It is only by understanding this interaction between physical and political phenomena that we can hope to lay the foundation of a rational policy in Africa: for violation of Nature's laws brings the inevitable Nemesis. We have now to deal with the distribution of the native Distribn- populations. Our knowledge of the innumerable tribes native inhabiting Africa and of their languages—in the examina-Kona- tion of which the best classification may be sought—is, it is true, not much more extensive and complete than our knowledge of the geological structure of the continent: that ifl to say, we know a good deal of the coastal tribes and of those in direct contact with them, but of the remainder and greater number we have only a specimen here and there, so to speak, to guide us. A rough and general cla...