The indispensable requisite or qualification for any kind of missionary is that he have some wish to proselytize: this the Arabs do not possess in the slightest degree.
As they never translate the Koran, they neglect the best means of influencing the Africans, who invariably wish to understand what they are about.

When we were teaching adults the alphabet, they felt it a hard task.

"Give me medicine, I shall drink it to make me understand it," was their earnest entreaty.

When they have advanced so far as to form clear conceptions of Old Testament and Gospel histories, they tell them to their neighbours; and, on visiting distant tribes, feel proud to show how much they know: in this way the knowledge of Christianity becomes widely diffused.

Those whose hatred to its self-denying doctrines has become developed by knowledge, propagate slanders; but still they speak of Christianity, and awaken attention.
The plan, therefore, of the Christian missionary in imparting knowledge is immeasurably superior to that of the Moslem in dealing with dumb show.