Excerpt from The Arabs in Central Africa and at Lake Nyassa: With Correspondence With H. M. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the Attitude of Portugal; With Two Maps A copy of the accompanying slave trade Map having been made on a large scale at the request of friends of the Missions on Lake Nyassa, for submission to an important meeting held in London in spring, the writer has in this paper given his authorities for the Map and other information bearing on the present critical state of affairs in south-eastern Africa. The slave trade Map has been further revised by Mr. Ravenstein. Mr. Ravenstein thinks that the depopulation especially of the regions east of the lakes is greater than is represented in the map, but there are not materials from which to make it accurate. The uncoloured spaces in Msiri and the Bemba countries, represent districts from which slave hunters proceed to attack the surround ing regions. With regard to the routes leading westward into Portuguese territory the slaves are set free after seven years' forced labour. This does not make the atrocities in procuring them any less. Dr. Schweinfurth proposes an addition to the colouring to show that the whole of the Egyptian Soudan has been under the dominion of the slave trade since 1884. He also suggests that the word coast should be erased in the title of the colouring, the principal consumption of slaves being in the Soudan itself and in the Arab territories. (the Soudan being beyond the scope of this pamphlet, it is enough to note the first point. The export from the East Coast may be small relatively, but it is still considerable - J. S.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.