Central Africa. 
but it has been known to carry off children into the forest 
It will pull out the spear, if stabbed with one, and endeavour 
in the most human-like manner to staunch the blood with 
grass or leaves. It will thus be imagined that an explorer 
has to contend with difficulties of many kinds ere he can - 
make his way across the continent, or discover any new 
features of interest. In Tropical Africa we behold the 
grandest features of vegetation, the most powerful and 
savage form of animal life, the most repulsive ones of reptile 
life, and the most degraded specimens of human life. Un- 
civilized, wild grandeur marks its physical features ; degra- 
dation, vileness, and bloodshed, its native life. Only the 
glad tidings of salvation, proclaimed by those who count 
not their own lives dear unto them, so that they may win 
souls for Christ, will avail to turn this vast moral desolation 
into a garden, which shall blossom as the rose. As Living- 
stone says, " the end of the geographical feat must be the 
beginning of the missionary enterprise." To that, Africa 
must owe her regeneration. Mission enterprise must be the 
instrument, God's grace the transforming power. 
An immense continent like Africa is peopled by repre- 
sentatives of many races. Travellers' tales are not wanting 
in wonders, so that, at times, statements have been put forth 
demanding a large amount of credulity. Dr. Schweinfurth 
states that in the regions around the Equator, dwarf races 
exist, which are believed by scientific men to be the true 
aboriginal inhabitants of the country. Stanley was informed 
by King Rumanika of the existence of a people in the in- 
terior, only two feet high and of another people, " who 
had long ears descending to their feet ; one ear formed a 
mat to sleep on, while the other served to cover the owner 
from the cold, like a dressed skin." This explorer dis- 
covered cannibal races in his march across Africa, and the 
