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86 pore, do not furnish a sufficient supply, and Louisiana is falling off. And you all know that there is a market everywhere for our coffee as soon as we are ready to meet the demand. And thus we see the ability God has given us to serve men in the broad field of the civilized world before us, and we should meet that duty at the earliest day that thrift and enterprise will enable us.

Another duty germane to this devolves upon us. There are plants, barks, dyes, and woods all around us, and still more in the interior, which the commercial and scientific world needs and asks for. The further we push into the interior, the more abundant and the more valuable do these gifts of nature become. Moreover, the learned and the Christian world want now, at once, if God so permits it, the solution of the great inner mysteries of this continent. To this end expeditions on all sides are investing the continent. Now we hear of one in the East, on the White Nile; then of another, through Nubia, across the desert, to lake Tschad. Now they run up the Quorra, or some other branch of the Niger; and again we hear of one from the Cape, by land, across to Zanzibar. Are we to have nothing to do in this great scrutiny? Look at the map of Africa! See how all along this coast, from Goree downwards, travellers have furnished the geographical world with such an amount of information that it has been enabled to dot the map of Africa with the towns, and villages, and rivers, and marked localities of neighborhoods sonic hundreds of miles interiorwards; but take our