Mr. Oliver Bainbridge, who sent staying at the Astor Hou: man of many parts. A distinguished traveller, an export ethnologist "and anthropologist, a Hebrew scholar, and brilliant conversationalist, our representative's interview with him passed by all too rapidly, though an hour and a half had elapsed when. it terminated. Nor does the list of his accomplishments stop with those mentioned above. atr. Bainbridge has boon travelling for many years with throo principal objects in view, viz: to discover and investigate Jewish communities in. all parts of the world, particularly with a view to finding Jewish communities in uulooked-for places; to enquire into the educational "systems in vogue all over the glop:; and last, hub perhaps most interesting of sll, to determine if tmaukind, Mr, Bainbridge's most interest~ possible the original type, and colour ing disc very was that of the black Jews. in New Guinea. They live apart from their swage neighbours and are more intelligent and civilised, A comparison of photos of the. savage natives and the Jews showed how striking the features nf the latter ure, and even this nob skilled in detecting the facial differences of black races vvtld not fail t" notice the typically Fowish profile of these Israelites of New Guinea. The great difficulty to be overcome is that these people, like the Chinese Tews, do not know whence or when they came. Their religion is not orthodox Judaism, but although they have, doubtless from persecution, dispensed with many of the rites and ceremonies of their race, a substratum remains in which the initiated can peace their religious observances back to a Jewish source.
Mr. Bainbridge is here en route for Kaiféngfu, where he intends to study the Chinese Jews and obtain copies of their documents and inscriptions. He has already visited Persia and Abyssinia with liar object.
Mr. Bainbridge then produced some hundreds of letters and documents from school boards and educational centres alt over the world, showing how thoroughly he had gone into educational matters while on his travels. Speaking on this subject he parontheti¢ally expressed his admiration for the way in which British colonies are governed. He compared the Government of some of the German Islands in Oceana, and the comparison was very detrimental to the latter. The. English, ho said, were more in sympathy with the natives. The Germans instead of adapting their colonial government to the natives and their rites and observ ances, tried to adapt the natives to
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