Note 14 — Chapter I · The Foundations of Trade

‘At a meeting of the British Association, held September 7, 1886, the eminent African explorer, Mr. Joseph Thompson, spoke boldly of the evil influence of Europeans in Africa, remarking that it has been terrible, and that for one negro influenced for good by missionaries there were a thousand who had been driven to deeper degradation. We supplied them still with an incredible quantity of gin, rum, gunpowder, and guns.’