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suggest the steps most likely to forward the tra¬ 
veller’s views. ' At some period to come explorers 
will follow the line chosen by the unfortunate 
Tuckey; but the effects of the slave-trade must 
have passed away before that march can be made 
without much obstruction. When Lieutenant 
Grandy did me the honour of asking my advice, I 
suggested that he might avoid great delay and ex¬ 
cessive outlay by “ turning ” the obstacle and by 
engaging “ Cabindas ” instead of Sierra Leone 
men. At the Royal Geographical Society (Dec. 
14th, 1874) he thus recorded his decision : “For 
the guidance of future travellers in the Congo 
country, I would suggest that all the carriers be 
engaged at Sierra Leone, where any number can 
be obtained for is. 3 d. a day. From my experi¬ 
ence of them I can safely say they will be found 
to answer every requirement, and the employment 
of them would render an expedition entirely inde¬ 
pendent of the natives, who, by their cowardice 
and constant desertion, entailed upon us such heavy 
expenses and serious delays.” My conviction, after 
nearly four years of travel upon the West African 
coast, is this : if Sierra Leone men be used, they 
must be mixed with Cabindas and with Congoese 
“ carregadores,” registered in presence of the Por¬ 
tuguese authorities at S. Paulo de Loanda. 
I conclude with the hope that the great Nzadi, 
one of the noblest, and still the least known of the 
