BETTER TO THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. 
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ing in return hut a crop of lies. The Banians actually 
work the Custom House so as to screen their own slave 
agents, and as long as they have power to promote it, their 
atrocious system of slavery will never cease for sake of 
lawful commerce. It would he politic to insist that the 
Sultan’s revenue by the Custom House should be placed in 
the hands of an English or American merchant of known 
reputation and uprightness By this arrangement the Sul- 
tan would be largely benefited, legal commerce be exalted 
to a position it has never held since the Banians and Mos- 
lems emigrated into Eastern Africa ; and Christianity, to 
which the slave trade is an insurmountable barrier, would 
find au open door. 
David Livingstone. 
CHAPTER XLI. 
LIVINGSTONE’S LETTER TO THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. 
The result of the Stanley expedition in search of Liv- 
ingstone was as unexpected, and in some respects as mor- 
tifying to English pride, since what their Government 
expeditions had failed signally to accomplish, an enter- 
prise undertaken quietly by private persons had brought 
to a successful termination, that doubts were expressed as 
to the genuineness of the letters from Livingstone brought 
home by Mr. Stanley, while in some quarters it was ques- 
tioned whether Mr. Stanley had ever met Livingstone, or 
had ever penetrated so far into Africa. The following let- 
ters to Mr. Stanley from Earl Granville, and from Dr. Liv- 
ingstone’s son, should be sufficient to satisfy even tho most 
sceptical of their authenticity. 
