From the information gathered, they conclude that though there are difficulties, there are no insurmountable obstacles in the way of the establishment of the mission proposed. The country has been visited by a number of explorers, merchants and officers of the Egyptian Government. Steamers ply up and down the Nile in close proximity to some of the tribes it is proposed to reach. Sir Samuel Baker has illustrated the feasibility of conveying steel steamers in sections across the desert, from Souakim on the Red Sea, to Berber on the Nile, at which point they can be reconstructed and used on the Nile and its tributaries. With a small screw steamer, a missionary expedition can explore the different portions of the country mentioned by Mr. Arthington, using the boat for storage of supplies, and as a mission house, until stations can be established. The locality on the east bank of the Nile and along the river Sobat we believe to be more easy of access than either of the three central African missions established by the English and the Scotch on the Nyassa, Tanganika and Victoria Nyanza lakes, and that every argument for establishing these missions can be applied with greater force to a mission in the Nile basin. Of the region and peoples accessible by the river Jub, your Committee have as yet been able to gain no clear information, further than that the high lands, extending back for perhaps twenty miles from the sea-coast, sink into low, marshy plains, through which the river runs as far as it has been navigated. The higher region in the interior, in which it must have its source, is as yet utterly unknown. We not only deem the proposed mission practicable, but the call to it Providential. The attention of the civilized world has recently been directed in a striking manner to the Nile basin. The opening of the Suez Canal, and the explorations of Speke, Grant, Petherick, Schweinfurth, Long, Baker and Stanley, have familiarized us with the country and its people, awakening an interest in its behalf that is wide-spread; while the efforts of Sir Samuel Baker and Colonel Gordon for the suppression of the slave-trade open to this Association an opportunity for co-operation in a work consistent with its origin and history.