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Since then it has been applied to all officials of the State and is used to connote anything and everything connected with the State. Thus the State side of the river is Bulamatadi, a State Post is Bulamatadi, a State steamer is Bulamatadi, anything indeed belonging to the State is Bulamatadi.
Speaking of Bulamatadi, it may be of interest to state the origin and meaning of the term it means literally in the native tongue one who breaks stones. and was given to Stanley, when he blasted rocks to make roads the term being afterwards buried with him on his coffin.
They do not realise that one does not carry a superfluity of clothes when travelling, or that one or two lances are quite sufficient to keep as curios. Probably they think we are traders for we are not bulamatadi, and no one I believe, has ever ascended the Ubangi on a pleasure tour before.
Next morning we interviewed numbers of native Chiefs who were all very anxious to exchange lances and other curiosities for European clothes. All were content with Bulamatadi, although some grumbled at the necessity to find porters and paddlers.
The soldier therefore soon becomes an altogether different person and realises that he is no longer an animal-man living wild in the forest, but a soldier-man and a friend of the great Bulamatadi. who governs the country. What we may call the caste feeling has indeed contributed greatly to civilising the country.
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