Those Laws
Which Still Prevent Free Commercial Intercourse Among The Civilized Nations
Seem To Be Nothing Else But The Remains
Of our own heathenism.
My observations on this subject make me extremely desirous to promote
the preparation of the raw
Materials of European manufactures in Africa,
for by that means we may not only put a stop to the slave-trade,
but introduce the negro family into the body corporate of nations,
no one member of which can suffer without the others suffering with it.
Success in this, in both Eastern and Western Africa, would lead,
in the course of time, to a much larger diffusion of the blessings
of civilization than efforts exclusively spiritual and educational
confined to any one small tribe. These, however, it would of course
be extremely desirable to carry on at the same time at large
central and healthy stations, for neither civilization nor Christianity
can be promoted alone. In fact, they are inseparable.
Chapter 2.
The Boers - Their Treatment of the Natives - Seizure of native Children
for Slaves - English Traders - Alarm of the Boers - Native Espionage -
The Tale of the Cannon - The Boers threaten Sechele -
In violation of Treaty, they stop English Traders and expel Missionaries -
They attack the Bakwains - Their Mode of Fighting -
The Natives killed and the School-children carried into Slavery -
Destruction of English Property - African Housebuilding and Housekeeping -
Mode of Spending the Day - Scarcity of Food - Locusts - Edible Frogs -
Scavenger Beetle - Continued Hostility of the Boers - The Journey north -
Preparations - Fellow-travelers - The Kalahari Desert -
Vegetation - Watermelons - The Inhabitants - The Bushmen -
Their nomad Mode of Life - Appearance - The Bakalahari -
Their Love for Agriculture and for domestic Animals - Timid Character -
Mode of obtaining Water - Female Water-suckers - The Desert -
Water hidden.
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