From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man's diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi.
And so the Colonial Office appointed John Clayton to a new post in British West Africa, but his confidential instructions centered on a thorough investigation of the unfair treatment of black British subjects by the officers of a friendly European power.
Political ambition had caused him to seek transference from the army to the Colonial Office and so we find him, still young, entrusted with a delicate and important commission in the service of the Queen.
The hall at the Province House supplied a topic of conversation for the
colonial metropolis for some days after its occurrence, and might still longer have been the general theme, only that a subject of all-engrossing interest thrust it, for a time, from the public recollection.
When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated himself and the Service upon having made so excellent an appointment.
He kept Macmurdo in cigars and sent over quantities of shells, cayenne pepper, hot pickles, guava jelly, and colonial produce to Lady Jane.
His memory evoked a certain old fat and wealthy native chief in the distant colony whom it was a tradition for the successive
Colonial Governors to trust and make much of as a firm friend and supporter of the order and legality established by white men; whereas, when examined sceptically, he was found out to be principally his own good friend, and nobody else's.
This affair was a flash of spirit that might have warned the English not to venture upon any oppressive measures against their
colonial brethren."
But something had to be done; he had wasted many valuable years; and having an acquaintance who was starting on a thriving life as a
Colonial farmer, it occurred to Angel that this might be a lead in the right direction.
He frequently declared that England was the finest country in the world, sir, and he felt a lively superiority over Americans,
Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas.
Having joined
Colonial in 2014, Byrne had earlier served as director of Digital and Visual Media for the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University.
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Colonial.
A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in
Colonial Congo revisits the history of the southern Equateur region in Leopoldian and Belgian Congo from 1885 to 1960.
Colonial Life became the University of South Carolina's first corporate naming rights sponsor in 2003.
