II. 
Explorers and their Explorations. 
The desire to explore the interior of Africa has exercised a 
powerful fascination over the minds of travellers and ex- 
plorers. They have looked toward that strange continent 
with eager longing, desirous to wrest from the Unknown 
the mysterious secrets of the hitherto almost unrevealed 
land. A vast array of names come up before the mental 
vision, as one recalls the explorers of Africa. Barth, 
Richardson, Vogel, Mungo Park, Bruce, Landers, Clapper- 
ton, Schweinfurth, Gordon, Cameron, Stanley, Kirk, Speke, 
Grant, Burton, Baker, Petherick, Livingstone, Elton, Van 
der Decken, Serpa Pinto, Linant, Long, Du Chaillu, 
Mademoiselle Tinne, and many others, have left on* record 
tales strange, but true, of the country, its inhabitants, and 
features. These explorers, while serving the interests of 
scientific and geographical discovery, have served in an 
equal, if not a greater measure, the interests of the kingdom 
of Christ; for while unfolding to learned assembUes, and 
the general public, the results of their researches, they have 
moved Christian hearts to pity at the thought of so many 
millions of lost fellow-creatures — lost to knowledge, civiliza- 
tion, and religion. They have told of a world " lying in 
wickedness," far from the Gospel ken, and Gospel influ- 
