Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa: Including Sir Samuel Baker’s Expedition With A Force Of Nearly Two Thousand Men To Suppress The Slave Trade; Lieut. Cameron’s Across Africa, etc.

Excerpt: “ALL explorations in Africa in former years were made by travelers simply to gratify curiosity or from a desire to penetrate beyond lines reached by other men. All the results they desired or expected to achieve were amusement and fame. But in later years they have assumed an entirely different aspect. From Livingstone, who first began to open up the “dark continent,” to Cameron and Stanley, who pierced its very heart, all the explorations have tended to one great end the civilization and Christianization of the vast population that inhabits it. No matter what the ruling motives may have been in each whether, as in Livingstone, to introduce Christianity ; or, in Baker, to put a stop to the slave trade; or, in Stanley, to unlock the mystery of ages the tendency has been the same: to bring Africa into the family of continents.”