that are more than fear of England's might, that keep our people quiet
outside and loyal inside. This is not a passive loyalty with us.
Speaking for almost all my fellow-countrymen in Zululand, I believe if a
great emergency arises in the course of this history-making war, in
which England might find it necessary to put their loyalty to the test,
they would respond with readiness and enthusiasm equal to that when they
fought under King Cetewayo against Lord Chelmsford's army. Again
assuring you that the Zulu people are turning deaf ears to Boer
promises, as well as threats, I remain, with the most earnest hope for
the ultimate triumph of General Buller--who fought my King for half a
year. Your humble and most obedient servant,

M'PLAANK,

Son of Maguendé, brother of Cetewayo."

There is unhappily a tendency among persons living for any length of
time among heathen people, to think and speak with a certain contempt
for those people, at whose moral elevation they may even be sincerely
aiming. They see all that is bad in these "inferior races," and little
that is good. This was not so in the case of the greatest and most
successful Missionaries. They never lost faith in human nature, even at
its lowest estate, and hence they were able to raise the standard of the
least promising of the outcast races of the world. This faith in the
possibility of the elevation of these races has been firmly held,
however, by some who know them best, and have lived among them the
longest.

Mr Rider Haggard writes thus on this subject:--"So far as my own
experience of natives has gone, I have found that in all the essential