in the Congo River. 311 
I unhesitatingly assert—and all unprejudiced 
travellers will agree with me—that the world still 
wants the black hand. Enormous tropical regions 
yet await the clearing and the draining operations 
by the lower races, which will fit them to become 
the dwelling-place of civilized man. 
But slave-exportation is practically dead ; we 
would not revive it, nor indeed could we, the re¬ 
vival would be a new institution, completely in 
disaccord with the spirit of the age. It is for us 
to find something which shall take its place, and 
which shall satisfy the just aspirations of those who 
see their industry and energy neutralized by want 
of labour. I need hardly say that all requirements 
would be met by negro-emigration ; and that not 
only Africa, but the world of the east as well as of 
the west, call for some measure of the kind. The 
“cooly” from Hindostan may in time become 
a valuable article, but it will be long before he 
can be induced to emigrate in sufficient num¬ 
bers : the Chinese will be a mistake when the neg¬ 
lected resources of the mighty “ Central Em¬ 
pire,” mineral and others, shall be ready to be de¬ 
veloped, as they soon must, under the supervision 
of Europeans. It remains only for us to draw 
upon the great labour-bank of Negro-land. 
A bona fide emigration, a free engagS system, 
would be a boon to Western and Inner Africa, where 
the tribes live in an almost continual state of petty 
