PROSPECTS OF E. EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 557 
dear reader, if I have worried and bored you by 
inserting a leaf or two of commercial propaganda into 
what you thought, when you ordered it from the 
library, was just going to be an average African book- 
adventures with lions, tossings by buffaloes, encounters 
with nasty natives, and so on. Believe me, I have 
done so disinterestedly. I am not an African trader, 
nor do I intend to be. I am not getting up a company 
to develop Bast Africa and speculate in land. If a 
railway is made to Kilima-njaro, I shall probably hear 
of its accomplishment from the forests of Borneo or 
the snow-peaks of the Andes, and remember I once 
visited that part of the world. Scientific pursuits and 
a love of rambling have led me to this richly endowed 
region as they may next year lead me elsewhere, and 
I have thought it well to let my countrymen know 
what advantages it possesses, so that when British 
merchants and philanthropists are bewailing the loss 
of the great African sanatorium, they cannot at least 
plead ignorance of its existence or advantages. 
Having said this much I leave my poor remarks to 
the kind consideration of the general public, by whom, 
and Mr. Mudie, we authors of a day receive our raison - 
d'etre. 
