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being turned to account for the good of others. They are like 

 groaning in sickness. Some people amuse themselves when ill 

 with continuous moaning. The forty days of Lent might be 

 annually spent in visiting adjacent tribes, and bearing unavoid- 

 able hunger and thirst with a good grace. Considering the 

 greatness of the object to be attained, men might go without 

 sugar, coffee, tea, etc. I went from September, 1866, to Decem- 

 ber, 1868, without either. A trader, at Casembe's, gave me a 

 dish cooked with honey, and it nauseated from its horrible 

 sweetness, but at one hundred miles inland, supplies could be 

 easily obtained. 



" The expenses need not be large. Intelligent Arabs inform 

 me that, in going from Zanzibar to Casembe's, only three thou- 

 sand dollars' worth are required by a trader, say between six 

 hundred pounds or seven hundred pounds, and he may be away 

 three or more years; paying his way, giving presents to the 

 chiefs, and filling two hundred or three hundred mouths. He 

 has paid for, say fifty muskets, ammunition, flints, and may re- 

 turn with four thousand pounds of ivory, and a number of 

 slaves for sale ; all at an outlay of six hundred pounds or seven 

 hundred pounds. With the experience I have gained now, I 

 could do all I shall do in this expedition for a like sum, or at 

 least for one thousand pounds less than it will actually cost me." 



But he cautions all who propose to seek the elevation of the 

 Africans that it can only be accomplished by real, consistent, be- 

 nevolent, intelligent, and patient work. No jugglery or sleight- 

 of-hand, as was recommended to Napoleon III., would have any 

 effect in the civilization of the Africans ; they have too much 

 good sense for that. Nothing brings them to place thorough con- 

 fidence in Europeans but a long course of well-doing. They be- 

 lieve readily in the supernatural as effecting any new process or 

 feat of skill, for it is part of their original faith to ascribe every- 

 thing above human agency to unseen spirits. Goodness or un- 

 selfishness impresses their minds more than any kind of skill or 

 power. They say, " You have different hearts from ours ; all 

 black men's hearts are bad, but yours are good." The prayer 

 to Jesus for a new heart and right spirit at once commends it- 

 self as appropriate. Music has great influence on those who 

 have musical ears, and often leads to conversion. But there 

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