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with the Sultan, to render illegal all traffic in slaves by 

 sea, Sir Bartle was unable to persuade the Sultan, but 

 left the matter in the hands of Dr. Kirk, who succeeded 

 in 1873 in negotiating the treaty, and got the shipment 

 of slaves prohibited over a sea-board of nearly a thousand 

 miles. But the slave-dealer was too clever to yield ; 

 for the route by sea he simply substituted a route by 

 land, which, instead of dinunishing the horrors of the 

 traffic, actually made them greater. Dr. Kirk's energies 

 had to be employed in getting the land traffic placed in 

 the same category as that by sea, and here too he was 

 successful, so that within the dominions of the Sultan 

 of Zanzibar, the slave-trade, as a legal enterprise, came 

 to an end. 



But Zanzibar was but a fragment of Africa. In no 

 other part of the continent was it of more importance 

 that the traffic should be arrested than in Egypt, and 

 in parts of the Empire of Turkey in Africa under the 

 control of the Sultan. The late Khedive of Egypt was 

 hearty in the cause, less, perhaps, from dislike of the 

 slave-trade, than from his desire to hold good rank among 

 the Western powers, and to enjoy the favourable opinion 

 of England. By far the most important contribution of 

 the Khedive to the cause lay in his committing the vast 

 region of the Soudan to the hands of our countryman, 

 Colonel Gordon, whose recent resignation of the office 

 has awakened so general regret. Hating the slave-trade, 

 Colonel Gordon employed his remarkable influence over 

 native chiefs and tribes in discouraging it, and with great 

 effect. To use his own words, recently spoken to a friend, 

 he cut off the slave-dealers in their strongholds, and he 

 made all his people love him. Few men, indeed, have 

 shown more of Livingstone's spirit in managing the natives 

 than Gordon Pasha, or furnished better proof that for 

 really doing away with the slave-trade more is needed 

 than a good treaty — there must be a hearty and influential 



