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section of the population, and the recolutiona were not
distributed evenly in a geographical sense*
Tho bulk' of roaolütuono cane from the cbuth of England.
There woro only seven from Wales, five frön Ireland and
thirteen from Scotland, one oigth of the total, Scotland
might have been expected to act as something of a contra
for the agitation. Scotsmen were prominent in the Company
and the Scottish Gcogru$
. cal Society and Scottish Churches
I had special interests in Africa. Alexander Low Bruce,
a director of the Company who dies in 18939 was a
prototype of the Scot whoao life revolved around African
enterprise. He wan a eon-in-law of Living tonot a
leader of the Scottish Liberal Unionists, "u strong
Imperialist and had great boliet in the extension of
the British power. "
(1)
He wan ansociatnd with the I. 13. E. A. Co,
the African Laken Company and the South Africa Gompany.
lie helped to inýg rate tho Scottish t pgraphical £ocioty
and became its treasurer. But although Mackinnon found
". *. on all hands in Scotland that the people are inzoal
oarneat in this matter and will not h©citate to reject the
(1) Scottinh Oeopraphical Nmrazina. January 1894# Druco'a
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