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THE SLAVE QUESTION. 
we ought to use the means which are adapted to the 
end. 
If the plan here proposed be good, it would be 
very much increased in efficiency, if carried out to an 
extensive scale ; that is, by pursuing a similar system 
on several rivers at the same time. For instance, if 
we had such posts on the River Volta, the Niger, the 
Cross or Old Calabar, the Madiba ma Dualla or Cama- 
roons, with depots at the mouths of the rivers, — com- 
munication might be easily established between them, 
— the three last especially, which might in time be 
extended far into the interior. Other rivers might 
eventually be so occupied, as the Gaboon. 
In order to maintain discipline among the coloured 
officers, &c., as well as to prevent them from falling 
back into the barbarism of the surrounding nations, 
the forces, military and naval, should be occasionally 
transferred from one station to another, communicating 
at certain seasons with some established authority, or 
with the Home Government; and after a certain 
period of service, they might be allowed to retire to 
whichever settlement they should choose. 
We do not contemplate the establishment of a 
mere model farm, but the foundation of a colony ; 
having within it all the elements of native society, 
or Government expedition would not differ much from this, therefore 
the danger to human life in the Niger is more than thirteen times 
as great as on the coast, and about a hundred times as great as on 
healthy stations. 
