PREFACE.
In writing tins book, my aim has been to give a
true picture in outline of the Slave-Trade as it exists
at the present time on the east coast of Africa.
In order to this, I have selected from the most
trustworthy sources what I believe to be the most
telling points of " the trade," and have woven these
together into a tale, the warp of which is composed
of thick cords of fact ; the woof of slight lines of
fiction, just sufficient to hold the fabric together.
Exaggeration has easily been avoided, because — as
Dr. Livingstone says in regard to the slave-trade —
" exaggeration is impossible."
If the reader's taste should be offended by find-
ing the tragic and comic elements in too close
proximity, I trust that he will bear in remembrance
that " such is life," and that the writer who would
be true to life must foUow, not lead, nature.
I have to acknowled^re mvself indebted to Dr.
Eyan, late Bishop of Mauritius ; to the Eev. Charles
New, interpreter to the Livingstone Search Expedi-
tion ; to Edward Hutchinson, Esq., Lay Secretary
to the Church Missionary Society, and others, for
kindly furnishing me with information in connexion
with the slave-trade.
Besides examining the Parliamentary Blue-books
which treat of this subject, I have read or consulted,
among others, the various authoritative works to
which reference is made in the foot-notes sprinkled
throughout this book, — all of which works bear the
strongest possible testimony to the fact that the
horrible traffic in human beings is in all respects as
bad at the present time on the east coast of Africa
as it ever was on the west coast in the days ol'
Wilber force.
I began my tale in the hope that I might produce
something to interest the young (perchance, also, the
old) in a most momentous cause, — the total aboli-
tion of the African slave-trade. I close it with the
prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file
which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and
set the black man free.
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