840 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.R 



which attends that of the explorer and traveller who pushes into entirely new 

 country. However, Lake Nyassa has not been thoroughly explored, but will 

 afford a rich field for new sights, rounds, and views. The people on Lake 

 Nyassa I know well. I have heard not only from Englishmen, but also Arabs, 

 that the name of England, thanks to Bishop Mackenzie, is loved and revered. 

 The Arabs whose slave trade he interfered with respect and honour him. 

 They talk about the slave trade ; they are brought up to it by the Koran, 

 but at the same time they can understand the idea of Englishmen in stopping 

 it. I was talking to a white Arab one day, and mentioned the circumstance 

 of having burnt a dhow in a certain place at a certain time. He mentioned 

 some things, and asked some things, which I answered, and then he said it 

 was his dhow. I thought I had made a mess of it, but he said, ' We are here, 

 and we are both civilised (they call themselves civilised), and it is our duty to 

 stand by each other. Whatever you do you do by the orders of your Grovern- 

 ment ; and we are just as good friends as ever.' And that man is one of my 

 best friends. 



" The ivory trade is the principal one of Africa, and must continue for 

 some years to be the principal export, but as we begin to open up that coun- 

 try, especially factories and trading stations, so shall we find new and valuable 

 products, and also find a market for our overglut of manufactures, which 

 causes the mills in Manchester and Lancashire to be working half time. Africa 

 is the new El Dorado — far more than British India was to us. It is a new coun- 

 try open for our trade and commerce, and in which our population can find 

 employment without very many of the dangers which are inherent to our 

 position in India, where we have to struggle with the remains of a debased 

 and decaying civilisation. Africa must be approached on a larger scale. The 

 effect of Mr. Cotterill's work will be to do a great good, and to show how 

 that large scale can best be worked out ; but the time must come when the 

 whole extent of Africa must be taken in hand on a broad and complete basis. 

 I will now conclude, and I hope every one will join with me in wishing Mr. 

 Cotterill success in his excellent undertaking." 



The Mayoe having asked if any gentleman wished to address the meet- 

 ing — The Rev. R. Cocking said he would take the liberty of saying a few 

 words upon the subject, because the early part of his own life, and the associa- 

 tions of his family, had been very largely mixed up with the welfare and well- 

 being of the African race. It had not been his lot to walk in the footsteps 

 of the great and good men who had preceded Mr. Cotterill in his noble work 

 in Africa, but it had been his lot to live in countries where the population 

 were almost exclusively African. He bore witness to the fact, that where the 

 African had fair and full opportunity of knowing what was good, and having 

 the example of higher and better things before him, that he had invariably 

 risen, if not to the level of the higher races, yet sufficiently high to justify 



