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and his notes on the Kru people are wonderfully true to life 

 (even after thirty-five years' interval) and instinct with that 

 charming sympathy, that real genius, which ran through the 

 works of this wonderful young man, who died in 1874 after his 

 return from the Ashanti Expedition, aged only thirty-four years. ^ 



' He and the late Professor Henry Drummond were perhaps the only two 

 writers of genius who ever touched Africa — Reade on tlie west, Drummond on the 

 south-east. Burton came very near genius in some of his work but lacked the 

 sympathetic insight of Reade. 'Rea.de' s Marty rdotJi of Man, his swan-song, planned 

 in a squalid hut at Falaba in the Mandingo Highlands, wiiere he was detained a 

 prisoner, was not " writ in water " as he feared. It is now in its seventeenth 

 edition and should be given by the State to every young man and woman in the 

 United Kingdom, the United States, and — shall we add ? — -Liberia, on their 

 attaining the age of twenty-one years. It is the first rational exposition of the 

 relations of mankind to the mystery which shrouds the how and wherefore of man's 

 existence, the first honest protest against our long, long martyrdom. 



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