The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-01-08
EngIand's New Mission in East
Africa.

DR.. Livngstone's sublime courage and self
sacrifice in Central Africa have borne fruits of
good already. If any person, not interested in
geographical researches, and thinking that too
much homage is paid to the illustrous discoverer,
peevishly asks, Why all this fuss over DR..
Livingstone p he may be properly answered out
of the news brought to US by the last steamer.
Those who have read DR.. Livingstone's letters,
have found in them infinitely more than the won
derful story Of his wanderings in savage lands,
told with directness and simplicity in good Eng
ish, and the very perfection OF style. They have
seen and admired the utter abnegation of self,
which is the good Doctors crown of glory. Even
while racked by disease and surrounded by dam
gers known and unknown, alone, unsupported
save by his firm faith in.God and the triumph Of
his own appointed mission, this heroic old man
has been delivering burning appeals to the Brit
ish Foreign Office to break up the slave trade.
For himself, he asks but aid enough to keep him
at his workout for the poor benighted negroes
about him be implores the outstretched saving
arm Of England. His letters are full of the hor-
IOEs Ola Tue Save lIduc Us Ut lbs stEu lutul.
says one word for himself and hundred for the
human cattle who feed by their capture and suf-
ferirgs the treasury of the little despot at Zanz
bar. These manly and touching letters have
reused England TO a sense of her long-negected
moral duty. She failed in iuding and succoring
her distinguished son, and she now feels impelled
TO atone in some measure for that deficiency not
merely by paying profuse and deserved honors to
the gallant young Stanley, but by crushing out
the slave trade which has so long cursed the east
ern coast of Africa. If she can aud will do this,
the Doctor VIII be more gratiied than If he bad
rediscovered Ptolemys four fountains and solved
the Nile problem down to its last shred of mys-
terry Our latest London files inform Us that
England is about to send to Zanzibar a special
mission with Fl" ers to act. Its head is the
eminent Sir Bal, rere, an old African explor-
er, Ex-Governor of Bombay, and now member Of
the Council of Iudia-an able, discreet, brave
and true man. The English plans are not ex-
planned through the newspapers, but it is given
out that before extreme measures are instituted
diplomacy will be employed, and in that Sir Bar
tie Frere is at home. 1t seems that the Sultan
of Zanzibar is essentially protected in his famous
patronage of the slave trade by the treaty be-
tween Zanzibar and England. A large share of
his revenue comes from the slave traffic, and
England cannot forcibly drive him from it with
out a violation of his treaty rights. The Sultan
is DESTROYS of retaining the quasi-protection of
England. already shown about ten years ago in
her mediation between that ruler and the Imaum
Of Muscat, by which the integrity Of Zanzibar
was assured on the annual payment of 10000
the money be can raise for his own pleasures,
finds the payment of this subsidy very irksome,
and makes up for it to his treasury by encourag-
ing the slave trade in its widest excuses, as
that yields him large and sure revenue. He is
said TO have limited to the representatives of
England that if he could be relieved from the
payment of his tribute to Muscat. he would aban-
don the slave trade and assist England IN sup
pressing it. England now means to find out
definitely whether the Sultan of Zanzibar will
agree to do this, and if SO she viii assume the
payment of the 10000 crowns yearly to the /
lmaum. This policy is thought to be- and so 1t /
really seems, the wisest that can be adopted. 1t |
is cheaper to pay 10000 crowns a year "a triAe |
for England, and again the help of the Sultan of
Zanzibar in stopping the slave trade, than to fight
that monster evil alone, with the Sultan either
openly or secretly opposing. If the Sultan per
forms his part in good faith he can through his
intimate knowledge of the trade and the traders,
lead to the complete breaking up Of the traffic
on the eastern coast of Africa Sir Bartle Frere
will carry with him, it is announced, new treaty
covering all these points, and the petty ruler at
Zanzibar must sign it and abide by it or lose his
throne and his country. Now that the English
blood is up, we hope that thorough work will be
made of this most gigantic and hdeous of all the
crimes under the sun.-Journal Of Commerce.