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in value in Africa, the want of supply will increase 
their price in such countries as Arabia ; and the 
greater the difference between the two, the stronger 
will be the inducement to open up the trade again ; 
and we have no doubt but that ere long it will 
be revived. It was in spite of treaties and cruisers 
that the late traffic had gained such flourishing 
dimensions ; yet these are all we have to trust to now ; 
and we cannot help the conviction that while the 
people interested in the traffic and the conditions 
surrounding them remain the same, the evil will be 
resuscitated. You might as well build a dam across 
the mouth of all the rivers to prevent the flow of their 
waters into the sea, as to stop the exportation of 
slaves, while slaves are to be found ii»pon the coast, 
and such temptation to export them exists. In the 
one case, the water would continue to flow and rise 
till it overtopped the barrier, and swept all before it ; 
the only remedy would be to dry up the sources. So 
of slavery. 
We have a long-standing conviction that the only 
effectual way of destroying East African slavery would 
be to establish on the East Coast a colony analogous 
to Sierra Leone ; in connection with which, while the 
freedom of the people is secured to them, they could 
be educated in the arts of civilized life, and, above 
all, be taught the elevating principles of the religion 
of Jesus Christ. We are bound to take care of, and 
properly educate, those whom we voluntarily liberate, 
and make our proteges ; but hitherto this is a work 
which has been sadly neglected. It would indeed 
be a grand thing if Mombasa — the advantages of 
which, for such a purpose, Sir Bartle Frere fully 
