Missionary Enterprise, 99 
we hope, after a time, prove to be to some extent possible. 
Certain supplies, such as clothing, books, and medicines, 
may always be required from home ; but all the necessaries 
of life may be produced by native labour, under European 
superintendence. " 
MISSION-STATION ON THE BANKS OF THE CONGO. 
Five stations have been established, and one steamer 
started on the river. The hundred and eighty miles of 
cataracts between the Upper Congo and the coast, act as a 
sufficient barrier against getting into the interior by means 
of the water-way ; but the missionaries are making progress 
overland to the smooth, silent reaches above Stanley Pool. 
Stanley says, Once above the falls, we have the half of 
Africa before us with no interruption, and not like the Nile 
regions, deserts of sand, but one vast populous plain, so 
teeming with life indeed, that, excepting Ugogo, I know no 
part of Africa so thickly inhabited." Once these agents 
can penetrate the country above the falls, they will be able 
