38 JOURNEY WITHOUT MAPS

sports, and all the outdoor joys we love so well. For
the school girl or boy there are school sports to take
away the dullness and flatness of the schoolroom life.
Then there is the Prize Distribution and Thanks-
giving Service. For older people there is the All-
Comers Tennis Competition and there is coming up
shortly many dances and concerts. For instance, there
is the Danvers Dance on the 8th of February, and the
Play and Dance of the Ladies of the National Con-
gress of British West Africa which comes on the ijth
proximo."

It would be so much more amusing if it was all
untrue, a fictitious skit on English methods of colon-
isation. But one cannot continue long to find the
Creole's painful attempt at playing the white man
funny; it is rather like the chimpanzee's tea-party,
the joke is all on one side. Sometimes, of course, the
buffoonery is conscious, and then the degradation is
more complete. A few Creoles make money out of
their prefects, by deliberately playing the inferior,
the lower boy: R. Lumpkin alias Bungie is the most
famous example. He has become a character. Tour-
ists are taken to see his shop. You are advised by
every white man you meet, in the long bar at the
Grand, in the small bar at the City, on board ship:
"You must go to BungieV He is the proprietor of
the British-African Workmen Store and he styles
himself ^Builder for the Dead, Repairer for the
Living'. This is one of his advertisements:

Fear God Honour Your King, be just to mankind
—Says Bungie.