This part of Africa is very little behind the South in 1866; and see what the A. M. A. has done in that dark place since that time? There are only two things that differ here from the South. First, the colored people in the South had been taught to work with more skill than these people have. Second, those at the South had more civilized people to deal with than these people have now. Take out these two, and Africa (this part), to-day, will compare with the South before the A. M. A. took it in hand. Now, if so much has been done in America, why not in Africa? * * * * * THE INDIANS. * * * * * S’KOKOMISH RESERVATION. REV. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., PORTLAND, OREGON, _Superintendent A. H. M. S., for Oregon and Washington Territories._ The best way to study the Indian problem is to study the Indians themselves. The agents and employees on the reservations have all the means to test every element of this question. Safety of Life and Property. The agent, Edwin Eells, Esq., with wife and children, has lived among the Indians here seven years. The employees and their families have lived here from one to six years each, all without harm or fear. At any moment the Indians could have killed them, stolen their property, burnt the dwellings, and fled to the rugged hills and mountains. The agent has traversed the country occupied by his bands, alone, or with Indians, by day and by night, without injury or alarm, leaving his wife and little ones at their mercy. Whisky is excluded from the reservation, but outsiders have sold it to the Indians, and exposed him and his household and company to danger from them, when excited by it, and the more when arresting them and arraigning and convicting the sellers in the courts. But in no case has he or one of the whites received a blow, or a stab, or a shot, or a threat from an Indian during all these seven years. Like facts can be put on record of the safety of agents and employees, and their families, on most, if not all the reservations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.