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king of Shoa, near the Somali land. Any statement of 

 the various commercial schemes begun or contemplated 

 would probably be defective, because new enterprises are 

 so often appearing. But all this shows what a new light 

 has burst on the commercial world as to the capabilities 

 of Africa in a trading point of view. There seems, 

 indeed, no reason why Africa should not furnish most of 

 the products which at present we derive from India. As 

 a market for our manufactures it is capable, even with a 

 moderate amount of civilisation, of becoming one of our 

 most extensive customers. The voice that proclaimed 

 these things in 1857 was the voice of one crying in the 

 wilderness ; but it is now repeated in a thousand echoes. 



In stimulating African exploration the influence of 

 Livingstone was very decided. He was the first of the 

 galaxy of modern African travellers, for both in the 

 Geographical Society and in the world at large his name 

 became famous before those of Baker, Grant, Speke, 

 Burton, Stanley, and Cameron. Stanley, inspired first by 

 the desire of finding him, became himself a remarkable 

 and successful traveller. The same remark is applicable 

 to Cameron. Not only did Livingstone stimulate professed 

 geographers, but, what was truly a novelty in the annals 

 of exploration, he set newspaper companies to open up 

 Africa. The New York Herald, having found Livingstone, 

 became hungry for new discoveries, and enlisting a 

 brother-in-arms, Mr. Edwin Arnold and the Daily Tele- 

 graph, the two papers united to send Mr. Stanley " to 

 fresh woods and pastures new." Under the auspices of 

 the African Exploration Society, and the directions of 

 the Royal Geographical, Mr. Keith Johnston and Mr. 

 Joseph Thomson undertook the exploration of the country 

 between Dar es Salaam and Lake Nyassa, the former 

 falling a victim to illness, the latter penetrating through 

 unexplored regions to Nyassa, and subsequently extend- 

 ing his journey to Tanganyika. We can but name the 



