PREFACE, vil. 
be their literary qualities, I believe them to be faithful repre- 
sentations of what they describe; and this statement I wish 
to be extended to the views of island scenery—which — 
were taken by him upon the spot with much care, and were 
reproduced here under his own eye. 
One of these Letters (the XVI.) treats of the Labour 
traffic, which has its chief seat of operations in the New 
Hebrides. It deals with the very important question of the 
Results to the natives of their deportation and three years’ 
residence on the plantations, and entirely demolishes Mr. 
Anthony Trollope’s justification of the trade on the ground 
of its civilizing and christianizing effects. The writer, it is 
true, speaks only of what came under his own ob- 
servation ; but if corroborative or additional evidence. that 
_ these are the invariable results of the trade is. required, 
it can be furnished to any extent. And really this State of 
the Case ought to settle the question. Regulation of the 
traffic will not avert the cruel wrong—nothing short of its 
suppression will. 
IV. An Appendix, containing a phytological description 
of the Plants collected by Mr. F. Campbell. This paper 
