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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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representatives which makes possible the holding-
down of many by one. Without it, there might be
required almost as many Tommy Atkinses as there
are natives to be held. That this sahib quality has
been widely furnished, that it does wonderful work,
I can stoutly testify. I can also testify that it is
not wise to have one solitary sahib in Zeila, as was
the case when I went thence into Africa. Only
two were at Adis Abeba, one of these leaving with
me. Only one at a frontier post near the eastern
border of the Soudan. Only forty white men at
Khartoum in June, 1900. (The smallness of this
number was a surprise, even to those who counted
noses at my suggestion.) One only, as related in
these pages, at Kashgar; and so in many a lost spot.
Then suddenly, because the one man is overworked
(as I saw at Zeila), there comes a war which might
have been avoided had there been time to get into
the hinter-land. There would be time to feel the
country ahead of one, as I know had not been, could
not be, done on the Abyssinia-Soudan frontier.
Need one say anything further as to the fatal lack
of good men before and during the great Boer war?
Not every white man has the sahib quality. That
is the important thing. So it is that the ever-
growing demands of administration, and the ever-
growing demands of a new competition in commerce,
run almost beyond the output even of the mighty
womb which has sent its sons to girdle the world.
A conservation of the British Empire seems to me
a matter of maximum importance to all the world.
That it should be conserved, it must, I think, be
conservative. The raid into Tibet I believe to have
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