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Show African Etiquette. Judging politeness simply bv- tlv- I'"w standard of personal advantage, it certainly cer-tainly "pays" among all civilizpd pw- pies, ar.d travelers tell u.s that the trait is equally -.iluabl in dealing with sav-agee. sav-agee. A paper by the late K. J. li;tva in- the Century contains some intertir.- remarks or. this point. In African' travel, it is wiFe to visit th biggest chief in any part of the conn- n t try. In approaching him. always st,1 word of your coming, and get. if poil'le. information) in advance, of the feeling of the chief toward whites'. Upon nearing the village, send orr ahead to annoi.r.in your arrival, and wait until your messenger mes-senger returns with some of the villagers f escort you to their chief. Grert thi chief civilly, and ask him to send or.p of his men to show you where to pitch your tent. I seldom, stayed in1 a place more than or." day. and generally the first nis'n: I rallied "the chief privately fnto my tnt, had a long talk with him. and gave him a present consisting of a good cloth, four yards of American, four of wide blue, four of narrow calico, about an egg cup full of b-ads and an empty bottle or two. Invariably I received next day the co-opTatioTV co-opTatioTV of the chief in every way. and al?o a big goat, sheep or bullock. ar.t fifty or sixty pounds of flour. Sometimes I gave a smail additional present before leaving. If the chief took a fancy to nn- r particular thing and I could spare iu I did so. Sometimes one wanted a shcatii knife, another a hat. j Oid Kambuidi was determined to have a shirt. lie wanted a. candle, matches ar,l j needles, which- I gave him. and as I hail previously given him cloth. I sugge:i. ; as a feeble soTt of joke, that as h no- , had cloth, sewing materials- and liKht. he might pit up night and make a shirt. Immediately the old fellow replied: "i: the candle that is interfering with my SH1CC06F. Here, take back the candle nr.'l give me the shirt." I finally yielded, and gave him a much patched garment, which satisfied him. |