THE BRITISH ADMINISTRATOR 213 games of football or politics to concern itself much with details of the life and tasks of its workers in the remote quarters of the Empire. Justly appreciated only by the few who have seen and know, or by those who spare time to think and realize, held by comrades as those who, in common with all of them, just do their duty, they pass their lives in strenuous toil or lonely responsibility, and return if they ever return—to a mother-land which only half knows what she owes them.

To this the Sudan proves no exception. Perhaps no division of the world possesses a greater proportion of men imbued with the instinct of government, whose life every day is confronted with problems so entirely foreign to conditions arising at home, yet whose adaptability of mind enables them to suit actions to circumstances, which often are puzzling, and sometimes almost incomprehensible.

Distances are very great ; travel in the interiorof the more remote districts, where trouble may most easily occur, is difficult ; and personal knowledge on the part of those who govern, or who influence government, is of supremest importance. Moreover, it cannot be too strongly urged that continuity of general policy is to be aimed at if the greatest degree of success is to be attained, and to a considerable extent—though it is not always possible —this renders advisable a similar continuity in personnel.

Probably this policy could be carried out to a considerably greater extent than it is, but it is to be