CHAPTER VI. 
PIONEERING EXPEDITION TO SAN SALVADOR, 
CONGO LAND' 
T he memorable discovery of the identity of the 
Congo and the Lualaba rivers made by Mr. 
Stanley, when with such heroic daring he 
effected a passage “through the Dark Con- 
tinent,” must ever prove a most influential factor in 
the redemption of Africa. But some three months 
before the world was startled by the announcement 
of that extraordinary feat, Mr. Arthington of Leeds, 
a gentleman deeply interested in the welfare of the 
natives of Africa, in an important communication to 
the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, 
under date 14th May, 1877, directed attention to the 
country of the Congo. In that communication, Mr. 
Arthington referred to information he had received 
from Lieutenant Grandy, who had been intrusted 
with the Livingstone Congo Expedition — an expedi- 
tion which entered Africa from the west coast. The 
interesting account given by that Christian officer of 
the religious state of the people at San Salvador, the 
capital of the Congo kingdom, which place he had 
visited, incited Mr. Arthington to suggest to the 
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