CHAPTER VI.

BARBARIAN WARFARE.

Variable notions of honour 156

Primitive ideas of a military life 156

What is civilised warfare? 158

Advanced laws of war among several savage tribes 159

Symbols of peace among savages 161

The Samoan form of surrender 162

Treaties of peace among savages 162

Abeyance of laws of war in hostilities with savages 163

Zulus blown up in caves with gun-cotton 165

Women and men kidnapped for transport service on the Gold Coast 166

Humane intentions of the Spaniards in the New World 167

Contrasted with the inhumanity of their actions 167

Wars with natives of English and French in America 170

High rewards offered for scalps 171

The use of bloodhounds in war 171

The use of poison and infected clothes 172

Penn’s treaty with the Indians 173

How Missionaries come to be a cause of war 176

Explanation of the failure of modern missions 178

The mission stations as centres of hostile intrigues 179

Plea for the State-regulation of missions 181

Depopulation under Protestant influences 181

The prevention of false rumours--_Tendenzlügen_ 182

Civilised and barbarian warfare 183

No real distinction between them 184