in the Congo River. 
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labours and overcame more geographical difficulties 
than any other African traveller either before or 
after him ; yet it is also sure that, on account of 
the defective natural-historical education of the 
author, and the indiscreet partisanship for the 
natives against the settlers, his works have spread 
many false views concerning South Africa.” This, 
I doubt not, will be the verdict of posterity. See 
“ Anthropologia,” in which are included the Pro¬ 
ceedings of the London Anthropological Society 
(inaugurated 22 January, 1873. No. 1, October ? 
1873. London: Bailliere, Tindall, and Co.) The 
Review (pp. 89-102), bears the well-known initials 
J. B. D., and it is not saying too much that no man 
in England is so well fitted as Dr. Davis to write 
it. I quote these passages without any feeling 
of disrespect for the memory of the great African 
explorer. Truth is a higher duty even than 
generous appreciation of a heroic name, and the 
time will come when Negrophilism must succumb 
to Fact. 
