The Shipley collection of scientific papers, Volume 3631918 |
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action adopted affairs African amongst areas art of lying Bauchi become beer BENUE RIVER Blighter civilisation conquered contrary direct direct taxation districts drinking economic rent eggs Emir's European officers exerted existence extent Filane Emirates fowl freehold in land Government guinea-corn Haussa horses important Indirect Rule individual influence instance instinct institution of freehold Kano Kola Nut labour law and custom liable living Lokoja manner matter ment mental mind Muhammadan Muslim Native Administrations native chief native community native institutions native law native races nature necessary Northern Nigeria Northern Provinces occupied opinion Osseni pagans point of fact political officer poll tax population position possible practice Provinces of Nigeria realised reason recognised regarded render rent Resident Resident's respect result secured slaves Sokoto square miles teetotal teetotallers tenant term to-day tribe truth village head wage labour West Africa white man's Yoruba
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Página 66 - To turn to the case of a Resident in charge of a unit less advanced than are most of the Filane Emirates. Here it may be thought that the Resident should mount a higher pedestal, and bulk larger in the eyes of the people. This is true in the case of very primitive peoples when the " prestige of the white man " must first be established, but when that preliminary stage is passed it is even more important for the Resident to conceal from the people that it is his hand that guides the ship than in the...
Página 48 - lighting, she had a fine fan, with a handle garnished with diamonds. When she was in the middle way, between the garden gate and the house, there came running towards her one with a nosegay in his hand, and delivered it to her, with a very well-penned speech.
Página 46 - ... which I pray you to find some proper time to move in. This, some hold as a dangerous adventure, but five-andtwenty manors do well warrant my trying it.
Página 73 - How often have I after passing in review the work of some of our native clerks in government service, or transacting business with denationalised natives of the non-official classes, thought to how great an extent the man's energies and talents, character and ability were being wasted. How infinitely greater would be the services which he would render the community, how infinitely greater would be his own contentment were he filling the post of leader of native thought and development for which nature...
Página 52 - Where the native is ruled directly the responsibility for every action taken is clearly traceable right through from the district officer or Resident who took such action through the senior officers of the Government of the Colony up to the Secretary of State for the Colonies with whom the ultimate responsibility lies. This fact renders centralisation unavoidable ; every one of these officials must be in a position to show that he has not been remiss, and further to convince persons quite unacquainted...
Página 48 - It had in it a very rich jewel, with many pendents of unfirld diamonds,1 valued at 400^., at least. After dinner, in her privy-chamber, he gave her a fair pair of virginals. In her bedchamber, he presented her with a fine gown and juppin (petticoat), which things were pleasing to her Highness, and to grace his lordship the more," adds the sly narrator, "she, of herself, took from him a salt, a spoon, and a fork, of fair agate.
Página 47 - Truly, my lord,' writes Bagot, ' a man that wanteth ability to buy a nag to follow his own causes in law, to London, pity it were to load him with the loan of any money to Her Majesty ; but as for Reynard Devil, a usurer by occupation without...
Página 46 - ... the mind of the British official. You must have patience with the liar, though he lie seventy times seven ; you must at times have patience with the peculator of public funds (a hard pill this to swallow) ; you must very generally have patience not only with the honest fool but with the slacker too. You have to make up your mind that men are not all equal before the law, and cannot be treated as if they were.
Página 69 - ... retained as a real thing, in positions to influence other natives in their turn, then a Political Officer's influence is magnified by a natural process a thousand fold. If, on the contrary, they are not so placed, then whatever influence the Political Officer may have over the few with whom he comes into contact becomes a mere drop in the bucket and is lost in the mass.
Página 64 - Resident must, so far as possible, keep his authority in the background, concealed, if not from the Emir and his immediate entourage, at all events from the people generally. At the same time he must be on the alert to stamp out and if possible forestall the growth of the innumerable devices by which oppression and malpractices can be introduced.