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capital, would before long be able to do a fair trade with the interior, would pave the way for a larger enterprise, and above all, would contribute much towards stopping the slave-trade.

This is a point which I specially commend to the notice of philanthropists and the Anti-Slavery Society, as one in which they might greatly further both directly and indirectly the suppression of slavery and the slave-trade. If legitimate trade were introduced, the need, so to speak, for the slave-trade would cease. As mentioned in the case of Uganda, the chiefs have often nothing else to sell in order to supply their wants, but show them that they may become rich by cultivating their land and collecting the produce of their forests, they will soon cease to sell their subjects, as it will pay them better to keep them at home to cultivate their land.

Great Britain has a special interest moreover in thus suppressing the slave-trade at its source. A handsome fortune is spent every year by our country in maintaining gunboats and their crews to put down the slave-trade on the East Coast of Africa and the Red Sea, but two years' expenditure on this armament, if employed to start a company which would open up the interior of Africa to legitimate commerce, would do more to heal " the open sore of the world," than ten times the amount spent on capturing cargoes of slaves at sea.

The promotion of trade by missionaries would be of immense assistance in improving and raising the negro races. It would provide an outlet for the natives' superabundant energies which are at present spent in wars with their neighbours ; and one of the surest ways of putting a stop to these desolating wars will be to find the people plenty of lawful employment at home. Some will think, no doubt, that this is secularising the missionary's work too much ; but if he is to gather villages or communities of converts round him, he must find them plenty to do, or they will be sure to get into mischief; and one of the surest ways to do this, and one which would add greatly to their material comfort, is to encourage and foster legitimate trade among them.

AH who have read Dr. Livingstone's life and works will see what importance he, who was facile princeps among African