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LEAVE FOR THE WEST. 



Chap. XXV. 



the well-attested fact, that while the Mohammedans, Fulahs, 

 and others towards Central Africa, make a few proselytes by 

 a process which gratifies their own covetousness, three small 

 sections of the Christian converts, the Africans in the South, 

 in the West Indies, and on the West Coast of Africa actually 

 contribute for the support and spread of their religion upwards 

 of 15,000?. annually.* That religion which so far overcomes 

 the selfishness of the human heart must be Divine. 



Leaving Kota-kota Bay, we turned away due West on the 

 great slave-route to Katanga's and Cazembe's country in 

 Londa. Juma lent us his servant, Selele, to lead us the first 

 day's march. He said that the traders from Kilwa and Iboe 

 cross the Lake either at this bay, or at Tsenga, or at the 

 southern end of the Lake ; and that wherever they may 

 cross they all go by this path to the interior. They have 

 slaves with them to carry their goods, and when they reach 

 a spot where they can easily buy others, they settle down 

 and begin the traffic, and at once cultivate grain. So much 

 of the land lies waste, that no objection is ever made to any 

 one taking possession of as much as he needs ; they can pur- 

 chase a field of cassava for their present wants for very little, 

 and they continue trading in the country for two or three 

 years, and giving what weight their muskets possess to the 

 Chief who is most liberal to them. 



The first day's march led us over a rich, well-cultivated 

 plain. This was succeeded by highlands, undulating, stony, 

 and covered with scraggy trees. Many banks of well rounded 

 shingle appear. The disintegration of the rocks, now going 

 on, does not round off the angles ; they are split up by the 



* "In 1S54 the native church at 

 Sierra-Leone undertook to pay for 

 their primary schools, and thereby 

 effected a saving to the Church 

 Missionary Society of S00Z. per annum. 



In 1861 the contributions of this 

 one section of native Christians had 

 amounted to upwards of lO.OOOZ." — 

 ' Manual of Church Missionaiy So- 

 ciety's African Missions.' 



