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days more was at Saadani, on the coast, again safe and well. He soon left 

 Zanzibar, and gave an account of his expedition to the directors in London, 

 at their meeting last Monday week. 



1 ' Thus a mid- African station, which was formerly reached only with extreme 

 difficulty and peril, and at a great cost, by means of large expeditions, and 

 after months of travel, is now brought within sixteen days' waggon journey of 

 the coast. Much of the time occupied in going was consumed in cutting a 

 road through wood and jungle ; but this labour, of course, will serve once for 

 all. In all other respects the road was a far better one than any hitherto at- 

 tempted. The streams gave little trouble There was no tsetse all the way. 

 The people throughout were kind and hospitable, and food was obtainable 

 at ordinary prices. Indeed, the entire cost of the expedition to Mpwapwa 

 and back was but little over two hundred pounds. Wagons and oxen are 

 evidently the right knife for opening the African oyster in its present virgin 

 state. By-and-bye, we may hear of stage coaches on the route, and the Cook 

 of the future may not improbably advertise excursions to the sources of the 

 Nile from London Bridge to Lake Tanganyika and back, via the Central and 

 East Coast Railway, at inclusive rates to cover hotel expenses at Mpwapwa. 



In the spring of 1876, another Expedition to Livingstonia, in the hope of 

 counteracting the evils of the slave trade and advancing civilisation, was 

 organised by Mr. H. B. Cotterill, a son of Bishop Cotterill of Edinburgh, and 

 formerly Principal of Brighton College. On the 16th of May, a large meet- 

 ing of between two and three thousand persons was held, in furtherance of 

 the object, in the Dome at Brighton. The Mayor presided, and addi'esses 

 were delivered by Mr. Cotterill, Lieutenant Cameron, and other gentlemen. 



The Mayor, who was received with applause, said "they were assembled 

 that evening to hear addresses on the subject of the African Slave Trade, and 

 the best means to be adopted for its suppression. The addresses would be 

 delivered by Mr. H. B. Cotterill, and by Lieutenant Cameron of the Royal 

 Navy, whom they now knew as a very famous explorer in Africa. Mr. Cotterill 

 had been, and now was, intimately associated with Brighton. It was in this 

 town he spent his early days, and it was at the Brighton College that he was 

 educated, where his father, the present Bishop of Edinburgh, was then the 

 Principal. He had since spent much of his time in Brighton, and his brother, 

 the Rev. Gr. Cotterill, was still one of the respected masters at the Brighton 

 College. Mr. Cotterill, who was now before them, had been assistant-master 

 at Harrow, he had realised the highest honours of the Universities, and had 

 already attained a position such as many spent half a lifetime to achieve. 

 But all these advantages he was prepared to relincmish, in order to conduct 

 an Expedition into the centre of Africa, with the well-grounded belief that the 

 introduction of legitimate trade and commerce will strike a heavy blow at, 

 and ultimately suppress, the detested slave trade. Dr. Livingstone, one ot 



