378 THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



can " Rachel, still weeping for her children," in the 

 evening of her days, be made happy. 



Meanwhile, the philanthropist, who after sowing the 

 good seed has sense and patience to consign the gather- 

 ing of the crop to posterity, will hear with pleasure 

 that the extinction of slavery would be hailed with 

 delight by the great mass throughout the length and 

 breadth of Eastern Africa. This people, " robbed and 

 spoiled " by their oppressors, who are legionary, call 

 themselves " the meat," and the slave-dealers " the 

 knife:" they hate and fear their own demon Moloch, 

 but they lack unanimity to free their necks from his 

 yoke. Africa still " lies in her blood," but the progress 

 of human society, and the straiter bonds which unite 

 man with man, shall eventually rescue her from her old 

 pitiable fate. 



The Bull -headed Mabruki. 



African standing position. 



