CHAPTER XVII. 
CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
HAVE thus attempted to trace a pic¬ 
ture of the Congo River in the latter 
days of the slave-trade, and of its lineal 
descendant, “ L’lmmigration Africaine.” 
The people at large are satisfied, and the main 
supporters of the traffic—the chiefs, the “ medicine¬ 
men/’ and the white traders—have at length been 
powerless to arrest its destruction. 
And here we may quote certain words of wisdom 
from the “Congo Expedition” in 1816 : “ It is not 
to be expected that the effects of abolition will be 
immediately perceptible ; on the contrary, it will 
probably require more than one generation to be¬ 
come apparent: for effects , which have been the conse¬ 
quence of a practice of three centuries, will certainly 
continue long after the cause is removed The 
allusion in the sentence which I have italicized, is 
of course, to the American exportation—domestic 
