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as a convenient starting-point from which to reach the tribes 
in the regions beyond. Tanganyika is almost as near the 
sea at Quilimane, as Ujiji is to Zanzibar." 
The planting of the Livingstonia Mission and the estab- 
lishment of a good route into the interior, led to the form- 
ation of the Livingstonia Trading Company," which may 
be regarded as a mercantile mission for the suppression of 
the slave-trade. This Company maintains a steamer below 
the Shire rapids, which works in conjunction with the Illala 
on the lake. Missions and commerce have unitedly given 
the death-blow to slavery, seeing that as soon as the native 
chiefs are persuaded that there exists a better way of supply- 
ing themselves with goods than by the sale of slaves, they 
adopt it. 
The work of translation has gone on with vigour, as 
well as those of agriculture and commerce. Dr. Laws has 
studied the language of the people of Manganja, and reduced 
it to writing. Further, he has translated the Gospels of 
Matthew, and Mark, and issued the latter Gospel from the 
press, which, in the heart of Africa as well as in England, 
is one powerful element in the work of raising the people. 
Hymns have also been translated and printed, while a 
grammar and vocabulary have been issued from the Love- 
dale press. The young men have been remarkably quick 
at learning the industrial arts* of house-building, canoe- 
building, furniture-making, timber-sawing, brick-making, 
brick-laying, and engine-driving. The girls have been 
trained in various duties pertaining to home management, 
and have made garments sufficient to clothe the women on 
the station, so that they may attend the public services, 
dressed in a decorous fashion. Indeed, so great is the 
demand for clothing, that some of the young women can 
already support themselves by their needles. Native evan- 
