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Rh and the Grindos near the coast, or among the Yaos and Nyassas near Lake Nyassa, or among some of the tribes on the road to Ujiji. I feel sure that Missionaries would be safe anywhere, and all the more so if they were known to carry no arms whatever. Negroes are very seldom violent unless they are frightened, and, besides, there is nothing so tempting to a native thief as European fire-arms. It was a well-grounded boast of Dr. Krapf that he went with only an umbrella where others dare not venture fully armed. I believe myself that arms are a cause of insecurity, and can never be of any use to a Missionary. The idea of founding a settlement by force ought not to be entertained for a moment. One may fight one's way through a country, but one can never hold it by violence; besides that, the secular business of a fighting chief would soon swallow up his Missionary character. A king must tolerate many things which a bishop is bound to denounce.

The complete suppression of the Slave Trade and slavery can only come about by the Christianization of the Africans themselves. The coast slave trade is by no means the only one existing. Slavery is found everywhere; and its mild character in the interior arises only from the same cause which makes Arab slavery lighter than slavery