4 go Wanderings in Eastern Africa, 
are dismissing the subject from their thoughts. For 
ourselves we heartily wish we could join in this ; but 
our knowledge of the trafSfic and those concerned in 
it, the utter want of confidence we feel in the mere 
signing of anti-slavery treaties by Muhammadan 
princes, and the fact that, while the foreign traffic is 
prohibited by the new treaty, slavery is still allowed 
to exist in Africa, prevents our participating as fully 
as we could wish, in the exultation felt by our coun- 
trymen in this last achievement of British diplomacy 
against the slave-trade in Eastern Africa. That a 
grand stride in the right direction has been made ; that 
Sir Bartle Frere has done all that a man of consum- 
mate abilities and implacable hatred to slavery could 
do under the circumstances ; that, indeed, everything 
has been done which, diplomatically considered, it may 
be deemed right for the British government to do, we 
are prepared to admit ; but that East African slavery 
has been destroyed — that the question has been finally 
settled, we venture to say is not the case. The evil 
still lives, cabined, cribbed, confined," it is true ; but 
there it is — a purulent imposthume, over which a 
healthy skin appears to have grown, but which is 
certain sooner or later to break out again, and to give 
us as much, if not more, trouble than ever. This 
must be so in the very nature of things, and it will be 
so till the disease has been probed to the very core, 
and that core has been torn out. by its roots. It is 
not a pleasant thing to be told that there is more 
fighting to do after we have dofifed our armour, the 
song of victory has been sung, and we are receiving 
the congratulations of our friends ; but it is our duty 
to do so in the present instance, for slavery is still 
