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Zoological Gardens, but after driving him 800 miles the grass 
got very short, and his horns coming to the ground before his 
nose, prevented him feeding. I was obliged to shoot him, and 
his head now hangs over the sideboard in my dining-room. 
These slave-dealers, with their devilish counsels and temp- 
tations, were Mambari, a kind of half-caste Portuguese, who 
fifty years ago were agents for the export slave-trade. When the 
survivors of the gangs reached the coast they were packed away 
in a slave-ship, like herrings in a cask, and transported. Through 
the vigilance of English cruisers this iniquitous traffic has been 
greatly reduced, and, but for the refusal of the right of search 
by the French, would be very small and unremunerative ; but 
the Arab curse still continues, and though, now that the sea- 
board is partially occupied by Europeans, greater difficulty 
will be placed in its way, I am of opinion that through the 
avarice and cupidity of man—African and European—it will 
not entirely disappear so long as there is any ivory left. That 
once exhausted, is there anything else worth bringing a ten- 
mile journey to the coast? 
In the late very cool partitioning of Africa we may con- 
gratulate ourselves on having obtained possession of Mashona- 
land, a district healthy enough for colonisation, and apparently 
rich enough to repay it. The tsétsé, that great enemy to the 
cattle-breeder, will disappear before the approach of civilisa- 
tion, and the killing off of the game, especially the buffalo, 
its standing dish, as it has done many times already in African 
Jore. Iam speaking of the tracts south of the Zambesi. Of 
tropical lands to the north I know nothing, save from what I 
read and am told, and I cannot yet see how they are to be 
settled. Fever and general unhealthiness must weight immi- 
gration heavily, and even if the country is capable of supplying 
the needs of the world in the future, what philanthropic society 
- will subsidise the workers until the industries are developed ? 
It must. be remembered the greatest prophylactics in an evil 
climate are movement, and its consequent excitement, and change 
of scene—the settler dies where the traveller lives. The rail- 
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