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I appreciate to tlie full the noble, self-denying efforts lie lias 

 made, and I realise the difficulties of his present condition. I 

 therefore conclude with the wish that the readers of Emm 

 Pasha's letters may learn to know and appreciate him as I 

 have done, and may share my hope that he will be enabled to 

 carry on the work, which he has for so many years, and under 

 such great difficulties, successfully accomplished. In every 

 sense he is Gordon's heir, and I trust to my fellow-country- 

 men having public spirit enough to support him in his work 

 of civilisation, and to prevent the relapse of the Equatorial 

 Province into the hunting-ground of the slave-dealers, or its 

 conversion into a mere field for commercial exploitation. 



EOBERT W. FELKIK 



20 Alva Street, Edinburgh, 

 February 14, 1888. 



