TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 745 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 

 The following Papers were read : — 



1. Tunis since the French Protectorate} 

 By Colonel Sir Lambert Platfair, K.G.M.G. 



The system of government adopted is totally different to that of Algeria, which 

 may be styled ' Colonisation de luxe.' No state assistance of any kind is given, not 

 an "immigrant has been imported, not an acre of Arab land has been confiscated, 

 and the whole civil charges borne by France do not exceed 6,000Z. a year. 



A very short time ago the interior of the country was practically a terra incog- 

 nita ; now it is being rapidly opened out to European enterprise, and it promises 

 soon to rival Algeria in what must always be the principal industry of North 

 Africa, viticulture. 



Commerce also has increased in a notable manner, but the beautiful and charac- 

 teristic arts of the country appear to be in a state of decadence. 



It is impossible to speak of Tunis and be silent regardmg the most emment 

 Frenchman there. Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Carthage and Primate of 

 Africa, who, by the great work he has carried out, has earned the reputation of 

 ranking almost the highest amongst the prelates of his Church. He has now been 

 sent by the Sovereign Pontiff to preach a crusade against the nameless horrors of 

 the African slave trade in every capital of Europe. The Cardmals aim is first to 

 awaken the public conscience to the enormity of the wrong which is being daily 

 perpetrated, and which is rapidly desolating one of the fairest portions ol the 

 earth's surface, and so to prepare the way for any remedy which His Holiness may 

 have to suggest ; and which, coming from him, might well be accepted by every 

 Christian nation in Europe, Catholic and Protestant alike. 



2. The Commercial Future of Central Africa} By Sir Francis de Winton. 



3. Bechuanaland and the Land of Ophir.^ By the Rev. John Mackenzie. 



4. The Transvaal, or South African Bepublic. By P. H. PoRD. 



5. The Cameroons? By H. H. Johnston. 



6. Br. Livingstone and Lahe Bangweolo. By E. G. Ravbnstein. 



7. Notes from the Atlas Mountains. By Jos. Thomson. 



8. Alihas and Bwarfs in Southern Morocco. By R. G. Halibdrton. 



9. Through Kalcongo. By Q. E. Dennett. 



' Published in extenso in the ProceedlTigs of the Royal Geogra2)ldcal Society, Nov. 

 1888. 



= Published in the Proceedings of the Royal GeograpMcal Society, Nov. 1888. 

 ' Published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, Oct. 1888. 



