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beacons ? Solely because if any nation were to put a 

 lighthouse there it would have to maintain there, also, 

 a garrison of soldiers to protect the lighthouse and its 

 keeper from the savages. Alas, poor Africa! Thy 

 coasts at every bay, or river, or anchorage, are stained 

 with blood and tears. Poor Africa ! Shall we 

 wonder if thine hand is against the inventions of 

 civilization ! How much hast thou to thank civiliza- 

 tion for ? 



All honor to those noble men, Livingstone and 

 Stanley, and following them, Taylor and others, who 

 have opened the way for better things, and are 

 carrying in to our dark-skinned brethren the blessed 

 light of truth and salvation. 



Our supply of coal running short we had to put 

 in to Aden, in Arabia, for a couple of hundred tons. 

 This we had not expected. We anchored some little 

 distance from the town, and the natives came out in 

 hundreds, with all sorts of curios chamois and 

 gazelle horns, ostrich eggs, coral, white and pink; 

 shells, fifty different kinds ; walking sticks, native 

 cloths, boxes, baskets, coral necklaces and so forth, 

 and so forth. 



We thought the natives of Colombo bad enough; 

 but, O dear, as some said, they can't hold a candle to 

 these fellows. " You buy, Mistuh ! Me sell cheap. 



