the monkey. I then retired to my lodgings, and thankfully partook of Corintchie's monkey soup to satisfy the cravings of hunger, having little else to eat.

17th, Wednesday. -Early this morning, Corintchie came to my quarters, shook me cordially by the hand, and testified his delight at seeing me safely returned from Coomassie. On my telling him that I should want him to assist me in holding further intercourse with the king, by sending messengers, &c., and that perhaps I should return to Coomassie in the course of the next dry season, he said he would readily do anything which I requested of him.

22d.-Reached Mansue; Gabree, the chief, welcomed me back.

On my inquiring whether he would like a mission to be established at Mansue, he said "Yes," and he should feel very happy if he had a missionary residing with him. Gabree is one of the most respectable chiefs in Fantee.

Mansue, and the adjacent villages, contain a population of at least 10,000 souls, and is admirably situated for the establishment of a mission.

Mr. Freeman reached Cape Coast in health and safety, April 23d. In his letter to the secretaries of the Wesleyan missions, he adds, "I have no doubt as to getting up to Ashantee for the future, with much less expense than has been incurred in my first visit. The king would not make so much ado the second time, as I am no longer a stranger. I also think, that even, with a stranger, he would not adopt the same course as he did with me, inasmuch as the novelty is over."

Such is the fearful state of a large population in the vicinity of a settlement which has belonged to Great Britain for more than a century; but, also, such are the openings for missionaries. I know not whether the one or the other constitutes the stronger argument for efforts in that quarter for the spread of education and Christian truth. I shall recur to this subject when I speak of the "Elevation of the Native Mind," only observing that a serious responsibility will rest upon Christian England, if such an opening into Interior Africa be neglected."

GENERAL REVIEW.

My object in this part of the work has been to furnish a description of Africa as it now is, I shall conclude with a few observations.

Towards the end of the last century the cruelty and the carnage which raged in Africa were laid open. From the most generous motives, and at a mighty cost, we have attempted to arrest this evil; it is however, but too evident, that, under the mode we have taken for the suppression of the Slave Trade, it has increased.

It has been proved by documents which cannot be controverted, that, for every village fired and every drove of human beings marched in former times, there are now double. For every cargo then at sea, two cargoes, or twice the numbers in one cargo, wedged together in a mass of living corruption, are now borne on the wave of the Atlantic. But, whilst the numbers who suffer have increased, there is no reason to believe that the sufferings of each have been abated; on the contrary, we know that in some particulars these have increased; so that the sum total of misery swells in both ways. Each individual has more to endure; and the number of individuals is twice what it was. The result, therefore, is, that aggravated suffering reaches multiplied numbers.

It is hardly necessary to remind the reader that the statement I have given of the enormities attendant on the supply of slaves to the New World must, from the nature of the case, be a very faint picture of the reality-a sample, and no more, of what is inflicted and endured in Africa. Our knowledge is very limited; but few travelers have visited Africa -the Slave Trade was not their object, and they had slender means of information beyond what their own cyes furnished; yet, what do they disclose ?

If Africa were penetrated in every direction by persons furnished with the means of obtaining full and correct information, and whose object was the delineation of the Slave trade-if, not some isolated spots, but the whole country, were examined-if instead of a few casual visitors, recording the events of to-day, but knowing nothing of what occurred yesterday, or shall take place to-morrow, we had everywhere those who would chronicle every slavehunt, and its savage concomitants ;-if we thus possessed the means of measuring the true breadth and depth of this trade in blood, is it not fair to suppose that a mass of horrors would be collected, in compa

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rison with which all that has been hitherto related would be as nothing?

It should be borne in constant memory, difficult as it is to realize that the facts I have narrated are not the afflictions of a narrow district, and of a few inhabitants ;-the scene is a quarter of the globe-a multitude of millions its population, that these facts are not gleaned from the records of former times, and preserved by historians as illustrations of the strange and prodigious wickedness of a darker age. They are the common occurrences of our own era -the "customs" which prevail at this very hour. Every day which we live in security and peace at home witnesses many a herd of wretches toiling over the wastes of Africa, to slavery or death; every night villages are roused from their sleep, to the alternatives of the sword, or the flames, or the manacle. At the time I am writing there are at least twenty thousand human beings on the Atlantic, exposed to every variety of wretchedness which belongs to the middle passage. Well might Mr. Pitt say, "there is something in the horror of it which surpasses all the bounds of imagination."

I do not see how we can escape the conviction that such is the result of our efforts, unless by giving way to a vague and undefined hope, with no evidence to support it, that the facts I have collected, though true at the time, are no longer a fair exemplification of the existing state of things. After I had finished my task, and on the day when I had intended to send this work to the press, I was permitted to see the most recent documents relating to the Slave Trade. In these I find no ground for any such consolatory surmise; on the contrary, I am driven by them to the sorrowful conviction, that the year, from September, 1837, to September, 1838, is distinguished beyond all preceding years for the extent of the trade, for the intensity of its miseries, and for the unusual havoc it makes on human life.

If I believed that the evil, terrible as it is, were also irremediable, I should be more than ready to bury this mass of distress, and this dark catalogue of crime, in mournful silence, and to spare others, and especially those who have sympathised with, and labored for, the negro race, from sharing with me the pain of learning how wide of the truth are the expectations in which we have indulged. But I feel no such despondency; 1 firmly believe that Africa has within herself the means and the endowments which might enable her to shake off, and to emerge from, her load of misery, to the benefit of the whole civilized world, and to the unspeakable improvement of her own, now barbarous population. This leads me to the second point, viz., the capabilities of Africa.

There are two questions which require to be decided before we can assume that it is possible to extinguish the Slave Trade. First, has Africa that latent wealth, and those unexplored resources, which would, if they were fully developed, more than compensate for the loss of the traffic in man? Secondly, Is it possible so to call forth her capabilities, that her natives may perceive that the Slave Trade, so far from being the source of their wealth, is the grand barrier to their prosperity, and that by its suppression they would be placed in the best position for obtaining all the commodities and luxuries which they are