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the Islands, and, whilst it existed, there was little done 
to Christianise the people. What has been done is 
the outcome mainly of but fifty years : a mere drop in the 
Stream of Time. Moreover, long after Englishmen 
ceased to indulge in the Slave Trade, other Nations 
were engaged in carrying it on. English influence long 
failed to convert the latter. CANNING'S eloquent appeal 
to the Bishop of Hermopolis for a Papal Bull against the 
Trade, winding up with the reproach that the shameful 
Traffic was continued by Catholic countries only, merely 
drew forth the laconic reply Apparement Us en ont plus de 
besoin ! It was but in 1867, only twenty-one years ago, 
that the Slave Trade to Cuba was discontinued. Meanwhile, 
English Ships of War often captured Slave Ships, and 
the people taken in these vessels had to be disposed of. 
In this manner it was that, until some five and twenty 
years ago, or during the thirty years succeeding the Eman- 
cipation, some thousands of Liberated Africans were 
distributed among the British West Indian Colonies, 
where they served a short apprenticeship. Many of 
these people are now living. Indeed, only about twenty- 
five years have passed since a merchant ship called the 
Barbara Campbell conveyed allotments of Liberated 
Africans to Grenada and St. Vincent, from St. Helena, 
whither they had been taken by an English cruiser. The 
condition of Heathen blindness in which these captured 
Africans were brought to the West Indies need not be 
dwelt upon. Excepting the cannibalistic propensity 
attributed in the third line of the following verse, Praed'S 
description of the worship of the Sandwich Islanders 
would depift the superstitions of the new comers from 
the Dark Continent : 
