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"It is in Africa that this evil must be rooted out—by African hands and African exertions chiefly that it can be destroyed."

McQueenView of Northern Central Africa.

"We may live to behold the nations of Africa engaged in the calm occupations of industry, and in the pursuit of a just and legitimate commerce; we may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their land, which at some happier period, in still later times, may blaze with full lustre, and joining their influence to that of pure religion, may illuminate and invigorate the most distant extremities of that immense continent."—Wm. Pitt