The Native Races of East Africa

Native Races of the British Empire
W. D. HAMBLY, F.R.A.I., B.Sc. (RESEARCH DEGREE, OXON.)
OXFORD DIPLOMA IN ANTHROPOLOGY ASSISTANT ANATOMIST IN THE WELLCOME RESEARCH EXPEDITION TO THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN, 1913-14
HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY 1920
Masai Warrior with Lion-Skin Head-Dress.
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During recent years there has been a very happy tendency to change the nature of geographical teaching from a monotonous memorising of the names of natural features to a subject of living interest.
In the endeavour to effect this change there has been a serious omission in our failure to appeal to natural interests of children by making the human element a central feature of geographical work.
A study of the picturesque lives of native races of the British Empire is an absolute essential if the teacher wishes to impart the appropriate colour and setting to a subsequent course of economic, regional, and political geography.
The sharp contrast between European beliefs and customs and those of primitive people is in itself an incentive to study and interest. In addition to this, a sympathetic understanding of the many native races who are controlled by English statesmanship is necessary for the material and moral progress of dominions in the British Empire.
W. D. HAMBLY.
East Africa