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not “black mail,” but forced contributions impudently de- 
manded, and neither service nor food returned. 
If the native Christians of one or more of the English 
settlements on the West Coast, which have fully accom- 
plished the objects of their establishment, in suppressing 
the slave trade, could be induced by voluntary emigration, 
to remove to some healthy spot on the East Coast, they 
would in time frown down the duplicity which prevails so 
much in all classes that no slave treaty can bind them. 
Slaves purchase their freedom in Cuba, and return to un- 
healthy Lagos to settle as petty traders. Men of the same 
enterprising class, who have been imbued with the moral 
atmosphere of our settlements, would be of incalculable 
value in developing lawful commerce. Mombas is ours 
already ; we left it, but never ceded it. The mainland op- 
posite Zanzibar is much more healthy than the island, and 
the Sultan gives as much land as can bo cultivated to any 
one who asks. No native right is interfered with by the 
gift. All that would be required would be an able, influen- 
tial man to begin and lead the movement ; the officials 
already in office could have passages in mcn-of-war. The 
only additional cost to what is at present incurred would 
be part of the passage money, on loan, and small rations 
and house rent, both of which are very cheap, for half a 
year. It would be well to prevent Europeans, even as mis- 
sionaries, from entering the settlement till it was well 
established. 
Many English in new climates reveal themselves to bo 
born fools, and then blame some one for having advised 
them, or lay' their own excuses to the door of African fever. 
That disease is, in all conscience, bad enough, but medical 
men are fully aware that frequently it is not fever but folly 
that kills. Brandy, black women, and lazy inactivity aro 
worse than the climate. A settlement, once fairly estab- 
lished, and reputed safe, will not long lack religious 
teachers, and it will then escape the heavy burden of being 
a scene for martyrdom. 
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