and other authorities, respecting the habits, customs, and
circumstances of the inhabitants of central Africa; which
would have added to the other incontestible evidences of
the genuineness and accuracy of his relations. But the
detail will have been already anticipated by most of
Adams’s readers, and would, we hope, be superfluous to
all. We shall therefore conclude, by noticing only two
important circumstances, respectively propitious and adverse
to the progress of discovery and civilization, which
the present Narrative decidedly confirms; viz. the mild
and tractable natures of the Pagan Negroes of Soudan, and
their friendly deportment towards strangers, on the one hand,
—and, on the other, the extended and baneful range of that
great original feature of African society—Slavery.
