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Some News of Dr. Livingston

           Itisnotastonishingthattheslave-tradewasthesubjectofconversationbetweenthoseworthymerchants.Thetwobrokersinhumanfleshweretalkingbusiness.Theywerediscussingthefutureoftheircommerce,andwereworriedabouttheeffortstheEnglishweremakingtodestroyitnotonlyontheexterior,bycruisers,butintheinterior,bytheirmissionariesandtheirtravelers.

           Jose-AntonioAlvezfoundthattheexplorationsofthesehardypioneerscouldonlyinjurecommercialoperations.Hisinterlocutorsharedhisviews,andthoughtthatallthesevisitors,civilorreligious,shouldbereceivedwithgun-shots.

           Thishadbeendonetosomeextent.But,tothegreatdispleasureofthetraders,iftheykilledsomeofthesecuriousones,othersescapedthem.Now,theselatter,onreturningtotheircountry,recounted"withexaggerations,"Alvezsaid,thehorrorsoftheslave-trade,andthatinjuredthiscommerceimmenselyitbeingtoomuchdiminishedalready.

           Themongrelagreedtothat,anddeploredit;aboveall,concerningthemarketsofN’yangwe,ofOujiji,ofZanzibar,andofallthegreatlakeregions.TherehadcomesuccessivelySpeke,Grant,Livingstone,Stanley,andothers.Itwasaninvasion!SoonallEnglandandallAmericawouldoccupythecountry!

           Alvezsincerelypitiedhiscomrade,andhedeclaredthattheprovincesofWesternAfricahadbeen,tillthattime,lessbadlytreatedthatistosay,lessvisited;buttheepidemicoftravelerswasbeginningtospread.

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