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the Jews, intermarry always with their own race, and 

 will thus remain apart. But it need not be feared 

 that they will become hostile to those with whom they 

 reside. Experience has shown that, whenever aliens 

 are treated as citizens, they become citizens, whatever 

 may be their religion or their race. It is a mistake 

 to suppose that the civilised negro calls himself an 

 African, and pines to return to his ancestral land. If 

 he is born in the States, he calls himself an American : 

 he speaks with an American accent ; he loves and he 

 hates with an American heart. 



It is a question frequently asked of African travel- 

 lers, What is the future of that great continent ? In 

 the first place, with respect to the West Coast, there 

 is little prospect of great changes taking place for many 

 years to come. The commerce in palm oil is import- 

 ant, and will increase. Cotton will be received in 

 large quantities from the Soudan. The Eastern Coast 

 of Africa, when its resources have been developed, will 

 be a copy of the Western Coast. It is not probable 

 that European colonies will ever flourish in these gol- 

 den but unwholesome lands. The educated negroes 

 will in time monopolise the trade, as they can live at 

 less expense than Europeans, and do not suffer from 

 the climate. They may perhaps at some future day 

 possess both coasts, and thence spread with bible and 

 musket into the interior. This prospect, however, is 

 uncertain, and in any case exceedingly remote. 



That part of Africa which lies above the parallel 

 10° North, belongs to the Eastern Question. What- 

 ever may be the ultimate destiny of Egypt, Algeria, 

 and Morocco, will be shared by the regions of the 

 central Niger, from Haussa to Timbuctoo. 



That part of the continent which lies below the 



