Excerpt from The Water Highways of the Interior of Africa: With Notes on Slave Hunting and the Means of Its Suppression With Maps
The Council of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow having in contemplation the formation of a Geographical and Ethnological Section suggested my reading a Paper bearing on these departments of Science. The great problems of African geography which have just been solved, with somo notice of tho ethnological problems on which we aro now entering, presented to my mind a suitable subject. If, in a general and introductory form, this Paper paves the way for the scientific treatment of these subjects by others at future meetings of the Society, I shall feel that my object has been attained. The subject is at present of intense public intercat. While I have not heeitetod to direct attention to questions of practical bearing and importance, I have endeavoured to do bo by the statement of facta which are within the sphere of a Philosophical Society.
By tho titlo of this paper I wish to indicate that my object is not entirely scientific. My purpose is to show what use can be made of the water systems of Central Africa; and so far my remarks will be of the nature of what the Germans call Commercial Geography.
The map I exhibited of Eaat Africa was the part completed of the great map of Equatorial Africa, now in preparation by Mr. E. G. Ravcnstein for the Royal Geographical Society. The scale of this is about 16 miles to an inch.
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