Livingstone, the day after one of these men-hunts, no longer recognized the provinces he had visited a few months before.

All the other travelers--Grant, Speke, Burton, Cameron, and Stanley--do not speak otherwise of this wooded plateau of Central Africa, the principal theater of the wars between the chiefs.
In the region of the great lakes, over all that vast country which feeds the market of Zanzibar, in Bornou and Fezzan, farther south, on the banks of the Nyassa and the Zambesi, farther west, in the districts of the upper Zaire, which the daring Stanley has just crossed, is seen the same spectacle--ruins, massacres, depopulation.
Then will slavery in Africa only end with the disappearance of the black race; and will it be with this race as it is with the Australian race, or the race in New Holland?
But the market of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies will close some day.

That outlet will be wanting.

Civilized nations can no longer tolerate the slave trade! Yes, without doubt; and this year even, 1878, ought to see the enfranchisement of all the slaves still possessed by Christian States.
However, for long years to come the Mussulman nations will maintain this traffic, which depopulates the African continent.

It is for them, in fact, that the most important emigration of the blacks is made, as the number of natives snatched from their provinces and brought to the eastern coast annually exceeds forty thousand.