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we certainly should be able to attack the slave trade at its heart, but whether 

 any Government would spend so much money on a purely philanthropic 

 pursuit was doubtful. Perhaps a great Company might be started with a 

 charter, such as the East India Company, and be only allowed to exercise their 

 powers on condition of their putting a stop to the slave trade. It might 

 be said that the day for charters was past ; but such was not the case with 

 Africa, which was three or four thousand years behind the time. The Com- 

 pany might work the whole of Africa in the way of trade for a number of 

 years, but on condition of their putting a stop to the slave trade. 



After some further discussion, the President moved a vote of thanks 

 to Captain Cameron, which was enthusiastically accorded. 



The meeting for working men, which annually forms one of the features 

 of the British Association, was held the next evening in the City Hall, and 

 Captain Cameron was the lecturer selected for the occasion ; and notwith- 

 standing that he had appeared in the same place only a few days before, a 

 large and sympathetic audience assembled, from whom he received a right 

 hearty welcome. Professor Allen Thomson presided. 



The Chairman introduced Captain Cameron as a man whose reputation 

 was now world wide, and who had done a great work in the cause of science, 

 commerce, and philanthropy. 



Captain Cameron then rose, and was received with loud cheers, which 

 were again and again renewed. On the applause subsiding, he said — In 

 November, 1872, he left England in command of an expedition sent out for 

 the purpose of helping Dr. Livingstone in those labours in which for thirty 

 years he had been engaged, and in which at the time of his death he had been 

 unremittingly employed for seven years. He arrived at Zanzibar on the 3rd 

 January, 1873, and in March the expedition left the dominions of the Sultan 

 of that country, which lay in latitude 5° 6' south, longitude 36° east. The 

 first portion of the journey was to Unyanyembe, in latitude 5° south, longitude 

 33° east. The next stage was to Ujiji, in latitude 5° south, 30° east. Thence 

 he went round the end of Tanganyika, latitude 8° 9' south, 33° east, and back 

 to Ujiji by the other side of the lake. From Ujiji he went to Nyangwi, 

 latitude 4° 14' south, longitude 26° 30' east, then on to Kilemba, at that time 

 the capital of Urua, latitude 7° south, longitude 25° 30' east, and reached the 

 coast at Benguela, between 12° and 13° south latitude, and 13° 30' east longi- 

 tude. On leaving the coast he first passed through an open, well-cultivated 

 country, which was situated outside the range of mountains which began with 

 the Drakensberg range in Cape Colony, and stretched right along the centre 

 of Africa, finishing in the mountains of Abyssinia. In these mountains rose, 

 on the one hand, the rivers which flow into the Indian Ocean, and on the 

 other, the rivers which ran into the interior of the country. The portion of 

 the range which he crossed was known as Usagara Mountains. The country 



