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I am happy also in being accompanied by men experienced 

 in geology, in botany, in art, and in photography, who will 

 bring back to England reports upon all those points, which I 

 alone have attempted to deal with, and with very little means 

 at my disposal. 



The success — if I may call it success — which has attended 

 my former efforts to open up the country mainly depended upon 

 my entering into the feelings and the wishes of the people of 

 the interior of Africa. I found that the tribes in the interior 

 of that country were just as anxious to have a part of the 

 seaboard as I was to open a communication with the interior, 

 and I am quite certain of obtaining the co-operation of those 

 tribes in my next expedition. Should I succeed in my en- 

 deavour, should we be able to open a communication advan- 

 tageous to ourselves with the natives of the interior of Africa, 

 it would be our great duty to confer upon them those great 

 benefits of Christianity which have been bestowed upon 

 ourselves. Let us not make the same mistake in Africa that 

 we have made in India, but let us take to that country our 

 Christianity with us. 



I confess that I am not sanguine enough to hope for any 

 speedy result from this expedition, but I am sanguine as to its 

 ultimate result. I feel convinced that if we can establish a 

 system of free labour in Africa, it will have a most decided 

 influence upon slavery throughout the world. Success, how- 

 ever, under Providence, depends upon us as Englishmen. I 

 look upon Englishmen as perhaps the most freedom-loving 

 people in the world, and I think that the kindly feeling 

 which has been displayed towards me since my return to my 

 native land has arisen from the belief that my efforts might 

 at some future time tend to put an end to the odious traffic in 



