veholders themselves.
Natives alone can collect produce from the more distant hamlets, and
bring it to the stations contemplated. This is the system pursued so
successfully in Angola. If England had possessed that strip of land, by
civilly declining to enrich her "frontier colonists" by "Caffre
wars", the inborn energy of English colonists would have developed its
resources, and the exports would not have been 100,000 Pounds as now,
but one million at least. The establishment of the necessary agency must
be a work of time, and greater difficulty will be experienced on the
eastern than on the western side of the continent, because in the one
region we have a people who know none but slave-traders, while in
the other we have tribes who have felt the influence of the coast
missionaries and of the great Niger expedition; one invaluable benefit
it conferred was the dissemination of the knowledge of English love of
commerce and English hatred of slavery, and it therefore was no failure.
But on the east there is a river which may become a good pathway to
a central population who are friendly to the English; and if we
can conciliate the less amicable people on the river, and introduce
commerce, an effectual blow will be struck at the slave-trade in that
quarter. By linking the Africans there to ourselves in the manner
proposed, it is hoped that their elevation will eventually be the
result. In this hope and proposed effort I am joined by my brother
Charles, who has come from America, after seventeen years' separation,
for the purpose. We expect success through the influence of that Spirit
who already aided the efforts to open the country, and who has since
turned the public mind toward it. A failure may be experienced by sudden
rash speculation overstocking the markets there, and raising the prices
against ourselves. But I propose to spend some more years of labor, and
shall be thankful if I see the system fairly begun in an open pathway
which will eventually benefit both Africa and England.

The village of Kilimane stands on a great mud bank, and is surrounded by
extensive swamps and rice-grounds. The banks of the river are lined with
mangrove bushes, the roots of which, and the slimy banks on which they
grow, are alternately exposed to the tide and sun. The houses are well
built of brick and lime, the latter from Mozambique. If one digs down
two or three feet in any part of the site of the village, he comes to
water; hence th