population an immense number were the indifferent, who had no sympathies to spare for any beyond their own fireside circles.  In the course of time sensation writers came up on the surface of society, and by way of originality they condemned almost every measure and person of the past.  “Emancipation was a mistake;” and these fast writers drew along with them a large body, who would fain be slaveholders themselves.  We must never lose sight of the fact that though the majority perhaps are on the side of freedom, large numbers of Englishmen are not slaveholders only because the law forbids the practice.  In this proclivity we see a great part of the reason of the frantic sympathy of thousands with the rebels in the great Black war in America.  It is true that we do sympathize with brave men, though we may not approve of the objects for which they fight.  We admired Stonewall Jackson as a modern type of Cromwell’s Ironsides; and we praised Lee for his generalship, which, after all, was chiefly conspicuous by the absence of commanding abilities in his opponents, but, unquestionably, there existed besides an eager desire that slaveocracy might prosper, and the Negro go to the wall.  The would-be slaveholders showed their leanings unmistakably in reference to the Jamaica outbreak; and many a would-be Colonel Hobbs, in lack of revolvers, dipped his pen in gall and railed against all Niggers who could not be made slaves.  We wonder what they thought of their hero, when informed that, for very shame at what he had done and written, he had rushed unbidden out of the world.

26th May, 1869.—­Thani bin Suellim came from Unyanyembe on the 20th.  He is a slave who has risen to freedom and influence; he has a disagreeable outward squint of the right eye, teeth protruding from the averted lips, is light-coloured, and of the nervous type of African.  He brought two light boxes from Unyembe, and charged six fathoms for one and eight fathoms for the other, though the carriage of both had been paid for at Zanzibar.  When I paid him he tried to steal, and succeeded with one cloth by slipping it into the hands of a slave.  I gave him two cloths and a double blanket as a present.  He discovered afterwards what he knew before, that all had been injured by the wet on the way here, and sent two back openly, which all saw to be an insult.  He asked a little coffee, and I gave a plateful; and he even sent again for more coffee after I had seen reason to resent his sending back my present.  I replied, “He won’t send coffee back, for I shall give him none.”  In revenge he sends round to warn all the Ujijians against taking my letters to the coast; this is in accordance with their previous conduct, for, like the Kilwa people on the road to Nyassa, they have refused to carry my correspondence.