Buoys in the roadstead, lighthouses (two) and wharf improvements at the city in the bay, with steam-tugs or tenders to tow vessels over the Ogun bar-mouth or inlet, are all that we require to make Lagos a desirable seaport, with one of the safest harbors in the world for light-draught vessels. The fish in these waters are very fine, and Ako is one of the finest natural oyster bays in the world. The shell-fish are generally of good size, frequently large, and finely flavored. Religious and Philanthropic means As a religious means, such a position must most largely contribute, by not only giving security to the Missionary cause, but by the actual infusion of a religious social element permanently among the natives of the country; and as a philanthropic, by a permanent check to the slave-trade, and also by its reflex influence on American slavery--not only thus far cutting off the supply, but, also by superseding slavery in the growth and supply of those articles which comprise its great staple and source of wealth--thereby tendering slave labor _unprofitable and worthless_, as the succeeding section will show. Stopping the Slave Trade As to the possibility of putting a stop to the slave-trade, I have only to say, that we do not leave America and go to Africa to be passive spectators of such a policy as traffic in the flesh and blood of our kindred, nor any other species of the human race--more we might say--that we will not live there and permit it. "_Self-preservation_ is the first law of nature," and we go to Africa to be _self-sustaining_; otherwise we have no business there, or anywhere else, in my opinion. We will bide our time; _but the Slave-trade shall not continue!_ Means of Doing It