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they would force England and France to make them independent, 

 because without it the English and French must starve. Instead of 

 being made a nation, they made a nation of the North. War has 

 elevated and purified the Yankees, and now they have the gigantic 

 task laid at their doors to elevate and purify 4,000,000 of slaves. I 

 earnestly hope that the Northerners may not be found wanting in 

 their portion of the superhuman work. The day for Africa is yet to 

 come. Possibly the freed men may be an agency in elevating their 

 Fatherland. 



" England is in the rear. This affair in Jamaica brought out the 

 fact of a large infusion of bogiephobia in the English. Frightened in 

 early years by their mothers with ' Bogie Blackman,' they were 

 terrified out of their wits by a riot, and the sensation writers, who act 

 the part of the ' dreadful boys ' who frighten aunts, yelled out that 

 emancipation was a mistake. ' The Jamaica negroes were as savage as 

 when they left Africa.' They might have put it much stronger by 

 saying, as the rabble that attended Tom Sayers's funeral, or that collects 

 at every execution at Newgate. But our golden age is not in the past. 

 It is in the future, — in the good time coming yet for Africa and for 

 the world. 



" The task I undertook was to examine the watershed of South 

 Central Africa. This was the way Sir Roderick put it, and though 

 he mentioned it as the wish of the Geographical Council, I suspect 

 it was his own idea ; for two members of the Society wrote out ' in- 

 structions ' for me, and the watershed was not mentioned. But 

 scientific words were used which the writers evidently did not under- 

 stand. 



" The examination of the watershed contained the true scientific 

 mode of procedure, and Sir Eoderick said to me : ' You will be the 

 discoverer of the sources of the Nile.' I shaped my course for a path 

 across the north end of Lake Nyassa, but to avoid the certainty of 

 seeing all my attendants bolting at the first sight of the wild tribes 

 there, the Nindi, I changed off to go round the south end, and if not, 

 cross the middle. What I feared for the north took place in the 

 south when the Johanna men heard of the Mazitu, though we were 

 150 miles from the marauders, and I offered to go due west till 

 past their beat. They were terrified, and ran away as soon as they 

 saw my face turned west. I got carriers from village to village, and 

 got on nicely with people who had never engaged in the slave-trade ; 

 but it was slow work. I came very near to the Mazitu three times, 

 but obtained information in time to avoid them. Once we were taken 

 for Mazitu ourselves, and surrounded by a crowd of excited savages. 

 They produced a state of confusion and terror, and men fled hither 

 and thither with the fear of death on them. Casembe would not let 

 me go into his southern district till he had sent men to see that the 

 Mazitu, or, as they are called in Lunda, the Watuta, had left. Where 

 they had been all the food was swept off, and we suffered cruel hunger. 



