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upon which he came: "They had levelled into ashes 

 every settlement, destroyed every plantain grove, split 

 every canoe, reduced the forest land into a howling 

 wilderness and left scarcely a hut standing over forty- 

 four thousand square miles, and this was but one of a 

 number of bands then operating in such great circles." 

 For every twenty tusks of ivory, a district with all its 

 people, villages and plantations is destroyed, 

 . When we speak of Arabs carrying on this work we bring 

 out the prime cause for the great increase in the traffic. 

 The Arabs are Moslems, and Moslemism, with its harem 

 life, its disregard of the lives of unbelievers, and its 

 practice of proselyting by the sword, finds in slavery one 

 of its chief helps and Moslemism is now extending in 

 Africa more rapidly than ever before. Thus in the con- 

 flict for the suppression of the slave trade Christian Eu- 

 rope finds itself face to face with Moslemism and the decis- 

 ion, as to which race and which religion is to rule in 

 Africa, is involved in the struggle. 



Of course the elephant with five hundred dollars worth 

 of ivory on his head is a great incentive to the securing 

 of slaves. Mr. Drummond says he will be gone in fifteen 

 or twenty years, and that the sooner he goes the better 

 for his country. 



But I hope that Africa will not have to wait for or 

 trust to the extinction of the elephant for the mitigation, 

 if not the suppression of slave raids. No insignificant 

 forces now confront it. All the European nations uni- 

 tedly oppose it. Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Al- 

 giers, has been preaching a crusade against it throughout 

 Europe, and though Mr. Stanley sneers at this as he does 

 at many another idea, yet the Cardinal has awakened 

 great interest and has raised money with which to equip 

 armed steamboats to patrol Lakes Tanganika and Nyassa. 

 The chartered companies are not only prohibiting it but 

 are also arranging stations that shall be strong enough 



