182 TO THE LAND OF THE NEGROID lives are often dependent on the caprice of a chief, whose existence is always up against the edge of the sword, but who gradually, slowly, are being rescued by civilization from aggravated uncertainties as to life and to liberty.

The career of the domestic cat is full of moments of worry, lest a dog come along to endanger her life ; wild " beasties " suffer the same apprehension. Only civilized man lives in any degree of calm peace of mind—that is, moment by moment ; his barbarian brother shows the same aptness of animals to live composedly during the periods of quiet, without giving undue thought to the morrow. When existence is so chock-full of uncertainties, it is well to be able to dismiss them from mind and hve in the present ; otherwise abode on earth would be divided merely into two phases of unhappiness the misery of apprehension and the torture of actuality.

To stroll into the suh% as the civilian native quarters are called, properly meaning market, gave food for amusement. Here were Arabs and Greeks with their frail shops full of wares, mainly for native consumption. A Greek trader, unkempt and untidy, came slouching along, ready to purchase a tusk, to contract for constructive works, or to head a trade expedition in the interior.

Living much as the natives do, adapting themselves to circumstances as they find them, the Greeks contrive to live and make small money where an ordinary European would starve. They