Excerpt from The Lost Continent: Or Slavery and the Slave-Trade in Africa 1875, With Observations on the Asiatic Slave-Trade Carried on Under the Name of Labour Traffic, and Some Other Subjects

Since the publication of "Slavery and the Slave-trade in Africa in 1872," many circumstances have occurred to excite public interest in the question.

The discovery of Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji, his subsequent travels and lamented death, together with the mission of Sir Bartle Frere and the works of other travellers, have all combined to arouse an intense amount of popular feeling.

Will this public interest be brought to bear in the right direction?

If so, under the Divine blessing. Slavery and the Slave-trade in Africa may speedily be abolished.

To show that there is no insurmountable obstacle to this at the present time, the following pages have been written.

From what is passing in the great Valley of the Nile, it is clear that one of two things will shortly take place.

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