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sions ; our great aim being to tell a simple, plain, 
unvarnished, and truthful tale. 
In conclusion, we commend our portraiture of Africa 
and Africans to missionary societies, philanthropists, 
practical statesmen, men of science, merchants, and 
our Christian countrymen generally, in the hope of 
deepening the interest already felt in the country, and 
of increasing that sympathy for the people which has 
been so largely evoked, chiefly by the unparalleled 
and self-denying toils of Dr. Livingstone ; and to con- 
tribute, in however small a degree, to such a result 
will gratify more than anything else the leading 
ambition of our life. 
London, October, 1873. 
