702 LIFE OF DA VID LI VINGSTONE, LL.D. 



the level of the sea. The sugar cane, rice, and wheat, all grew without culti- 

 vation. But all that country was at present in the hands of men who, 

 although they went there nominally for ivory, went really for slaves. What 

 Africa wanted was labour to develop her resources, and in the meantime her 

 labour power was being exhausted by the slave trade. Africa, by means of a 

 wise and enlightened policy, could be opened up and civilised; and why, 

 when everybody was complaining of the stagnation of our trade, did we not 

 go away and open up another market on that vast continent ? 



The Chairman having proposed a vote of thanks, it was accorded with 

 great applause. Captain Cameron acknowledged the compliment, and said he 

 regarded it as a great honour to be received in so kind a manner in the city 

 where David Livingstone had lived and wrought, and received his education. 



