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settled and civilized by Englishmen should be taken
poseanion of by Portugal. "
(1)
Frequent references were
made to Livingstone, whose work was thought to have helped
establish British priority to the region. A typical
memorial from the Scottish Churches and the Lakes Company,
read "Following in the footsteps of David Livingstone$ the
Scotch people have set thomaelvos to open up the Lakes
diatritto of Central Africa to civilise the region of
Lake 11ynna and expose and repress the slave trade. "
The next step was an assertion that the British were a
nation with natural talents for rule in Africa, whereas
the Portugese were unfitted for the high civilizing minciong
"The yrotenniona of the colonial Portuguese would be
ludicrous were they not no very serious a hindrance to the
progress of African advancenent...
(2)
Xn all ages of the worlds
history, the dominant and civilizing nation hue had to
overcome the barbarous or the effete one, and to hold it in
subjection before the lower race can be raised, revived and
civilized.
"
(*3)
Amember of the Scottish Geographical
(1) ! Q. 81f/17'ßät Africa Slave Trade, Domestic and Vcrioua,
13th 31st Farah 188;, f®narandum on British Protectorate
in Nyasa, 23rd March 1885*
(2) F. 0 8411713, A'rica$ Slave Trude, Domestic and Various
lot-24th 1'ebruargr 1885, Scottish deputation to 1, O. 20th Feb.
(3) Ntnate0ntti Century, SopLonbor 1888, PPt431 ýýýýrtiýýý (
+rlýr `Ls
Crawford,, "Slavery in Control Africa. "
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