[J] Capt. Canot, pp. 153, 180, 181. Wilson's Western Africa, 75, 79, 92. Richardson's Great Desert, II., 63, 129. Johnstone's Abyssinia, I., 267; Allen's Niger Expedition, I., 383. Du Chaillu, Ashango Land, xiii., 129. Barth, _passim_, especially (I., 310): "That continual struggle, which always continuing further and further, seems destined to overpower the nations at the very equator, if Christianity does not presently step in to dispute the ground with it." He says "that a great part of the Berbers of the desert were once Christians, and that they afterwards changed their religion and adopted Islam" (I., 197, 198). He represents the slave merchants of the interior as complaining that the Mohammedans of Tunis have abolished slavery, but that Christians still continue it (I., 465). "It is difficult to decide how a Christian government is to deal with these countries, where none but Mohammedans maintain any sort of government" (II., 196). "There is a vital principle in Islam, which has only to be brought out by a reformer to accomplish great things" (I., 164). Reade, in his Savage Africa, discusses the subject fully in a closing chapter, and concludes thus: "Mohammed, a servant of God, redeemed the eastern world. His followers are now redeeming Africa.... Let us aid the Mohammedans in their great work, the redemption of Africa.... In every Mohammedan town there is a public school and a public library." He complains that Christianity utterly fails to check theft, but Mohammedanism stops it entirely (pp. 135, 579, English ed.).