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came, how to transport them ? I went about and spoke in public in various 

 places ; my friends too have helped me ; and at last I find myself justified in 

 making a start. 



" One of the most encouraging of the facts connected with it — and I 

 have received from all sides the very greatest sympathy and promises of sup- 

 port — was, that when I went down to Harrow, the school with which I have 

 been connected, and talked to the boys, they quite spontaneously came for- 

 ward, and at once, with the masters, subscribed a sum of £300 towards buy- 

 ing me a boat in which to navigate the rivers. One other support I had at 

 Harrow, and I cannot help mentioning it, although it may be a little out of 

 place. Three little children, the eldest of them nine years old, came to me 

 one day, and said they had heard me say that, in Africa, a slave could be 

 bought for one shilling and liberated. They brought eight shillings, and 

 wanted eight slaves liberated, to be named after themselves. I promise you 

 that item in my account book shall be most faithfully kept. 



" I may also mention the fact, that officially I have had the warmest 

 assurance of approval. Lord Derby himself has been kind enough to give 

 me introductions to the authorities out there, and to promise me all the sup- 

 port he can give me. I mention this chiefly because I think the people should 

 know that this scheme of mine is not merely a chimerical scheme, but one 

 that is looked on as feasible and practicable, not only by merchants, but by 

 Her Majesty's Government itself. I hope, therefore, to start next Monday, 

 having shipped my little boat in sections on board one of the Donald Currie 

 steamers bound for Algoa Bay. There we — I am accompanying a contingent 

 of Scotch missionaries — will charter a vessel, and make our way as well as we 

 can to the mouth of the Zambesi, and there put our boats together, navigat- 

 ing the rivet's as well as we can till we get to Shieri. In conclusion, as this 

 is a kind of farewell, I will not say, as is usual, ' May we all live to see one 

 another again,' but ' May we live to see the day when this iniquitous slave 

 traffic, to which a million lives a year are sacrificed, is exterminated, and 

 exterminated by England.' " 



Lieutenant Cameron, who was received with enthusiastic applause, then 

 rose and said — "Mr. Cotterill has already told us much of the history of 

 Africa, what there is and what there is not, and what is being done there. 

 It has been my lot to traverse that continent from east to west. I have passed 

 through countries of various descriptions — countries, many of them of un- 

 speakable richness. If I were to tell the true story of these countries, I 

 should be accused of imitating the story of Sinbad the Sailor, or some others 

 of the thousand and one nights' entertainments. Passing through these coun- 

 tries, one seems to be going through a catalogue of the beauties of the whole 

 world, therefore I think I had better leave them. If you go to a grocer's 

 shop you see some of the products of the soil ; in the turner's shop, you will 



