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evil. They were of most miscellaneous character. There were political notabilities
and high officials of the Colonial Office. There were scientific expeditions of
all kinds,-anthropological,' biological, astronomical, etc. There was a lady
of a donnish type, who was interested in native administration. There was
an American circus proprietor out to obtain a specimen of the 'Missing Link',
whom Bosambo obliged by kidnapping a real live Pigmy. There were Pan-
African agitators, who had to be carefully watched, and who also usually hailed
from America, from which also came on one occasion two thinly camouflaged
negro ex-pugilist gangsters, who had made New York too hot to hold them.
There were gold prospectors, who were particularly unpopular; there were
wasters and down-and-outs; and there were undisguised globe-trotters of both
sexes with letters of introduction from the Colonial Office. Many of these had
to be put up for longer or shorter periods at the Residency, and when the party
included ladies. Sanders, having groaned heavily in spirit, ordered Bones to get
the refrigerator mended, and put up the tennis-net.
 There was always a certain number of missionaries (19) in the country, and Wal-
lace, both through the mouth of Sanders, (20) and in author's 'asides', pays con-
stant tribute to the work they did. I have already mentioned that he himself had
spent several months on a mission station in the heart of the Congo, and in
addition his first wife was the daughter of a missionary. His attitude to Missions
was therefore fully sympathetic. Sanders, however, is represented as being con-
scious at times that difficulties might arise should the Church challenge the
supreme authority of the State, as represented by himself. He also criticized miss-
ionaries sometimes for their failure to realize that some at any rate of their
converts might have ulterior motives.
 More serious was the fact that he was responsible for the safety of the miss-
 ionaries, who insisted on living in lonely out-stations, constantly exposed to
 the possibility of native attack. In fact, at least a dozen missionaries were mur-
 dered in the Territories in his time, and he could do nothing to prevent it.
 Apart from the spasmodic efforts of Bones, of which more anon,(21) it was
the Missions that supplied such education as there was in the Territories. This
consisted, as we might expect, of the Three R's, and some of the natives proved
apt pupils. A few were taught English but I regret to have to place it on record
that Sanders did not approve of this at all. He was the type of officer who refused
to converse with a native in any language other than a vernacular, a prejudice
due to his intense dislike of the pidgin English that was common in the West
Coast towns, and that a man such as Bosambo was familiar with. (22)
 The only exceptions to his rule that Sanders ever made were in the case of
a very sporting elderly negro lady, a D.Sc. of an American University, who spent

 (19) As elsewhere in Africa, Missions had been established in the Territories a con-
siderable time before the advent of the British Administration.
 (20) Sanders himself is depicted as a sincerely religious man.
 (2i) See p. 23 below.
 (22) Typical of it is the remark of a boy applying for a job as cook:-"I make 'um
cook fine; you look 'um for better cook, you no find 'um-sauyy."