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“a hint to purchase all their ivory was so promptly responded to I anticipate a small trade for the Mambari in future. If any one among the tribes subject to the Makalolo, sells a child now, it is done in secret. The [slave] trade may thus be said to be pretty well repressed. A great deal more than this however is needed. Commerce is a most important aid to civilization for it soon breaks up the sullen isolation of heathenism, and makes men feel their mutual dependence. Hopes of this makes one feel gratified at the success, which has attended the little beginning. But it is our blessed Christianity alone which can touch the centre of the wants of Africa.”
David Livingstone: Letter to Roderick Impey Murchison in 1855