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since the former part of these pages was sent to the 
press, or some alteration might have been made in a 
few of the expressions. The changes alluded to are 
those connected with the action the English Govern- 
ment has taken in regard to East African slavery, 
and if the reader will bear them in mind all mis- 
apprehension will be avoided. 
References to slavery and the slave trade will be 
found interspersing the narrative throughout, and we 
fear that, notwithstanding what has been done by 
England to abolish the traffic, they are as necessary 
and as applicable now as they were when they were 
first penned. Our further remarks upon this dark 
subject we have compressed within the limits of one 
short chapter. We should have been heartily glad 
had it not been necessary to allude to it at all ; but, 
alas ! the evil still exists, and will continue to exist 
until something more than treaties and cruisers be 
brought to bear against it. It is only a few days, as 
it were, ago, that all England was horrified at the 
intelligence that a slaver had been captured neiar to 
Seychelles, in which, of about 300 human beings that 
had been shipped, only some fifty remained, the rest 
having fallen the prey of small-pox and the other 
hardships of the passage. This has happened since the 
missio7t of Sir Bartle Frere, Such a fact must speak 
for itself 
One word upon the Orthography adopted in this 
