THE 



ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Objects of the Expedition — Portuguese Expedition in search of the Ophir of 

 King Solomon — India and not Africa indicated by the merchandise sought 

 — Failure in Sofalla — Second Portuguese Expedition after gold-mines — 

 Eepulsed by large bodies of natives — Catholic Missions — Want of reliable 

 information regarding them — Erroneous ideas as to the interior of Africa — 

 Sir Eoderick Murchison's hypothesis correct — Decrease of slave-trade, and 

 increase of lawful commerce on West Coast owing to Lord Palmerston's 

 policy — Fatality of the murderer attends the slave-trader — Opinion of Eev. 

 J. L. Wilson on the slave-trade — The operations of our cruisers — 111 effects 

 of sealing up the East Coast — Instructions to the Expedition. 



When first I determined on publishing the narrative of 

 my ' Missionary Travels/ I had a great misgiving as to 

 whether the criticism my endeavours might provoke would 

 be friendly or the reverse, more particularly as I felt that I 

 had then been so long a sojourner in the wilderness, as to be 

 quite a stranger to the British public. But I am now in this, 

 my second essay at authorship, cheered by the conviction that 

 very many readers, who are personally unknown to me, will 

 receive this narrative with the kindly consideration and 

 allowances of friends; and that many more, under the 

 genial influences of an innate love of liberty, and of a 

 desire to see the same social and religious blessings they 

 themselves enjoy, disseminated throughout the world, will 

 sympathize with me in the efforts by which I have striven, 



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