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V. BRITISH OCCUPATION OF THE LAKES ~EGION.--In obedience to the last wishes of Livingstone, our countrymen established the African Lakes Company, Limited (Glasgow), and took up the work he had initiated, and for which he died; and British Missions sprang up in his track. British subjects have thus invested large sums of money in developing the resources of the Lakes l~egion, and tlave freely given their lives in the cause of native 'emancipation. No other nation has laboured in the same field. According to official estimates, no less a stun than £400,000 has been thus expended. The Zambesi Expedition cost over £30,000 ; the Scottish Missions have expended some £100,000; the English Universities Mission about £50,000; the Commercial Companies some ~200,000; and the balance of £20,000 is probably not in excess of the expenditure of private indi- viduals in these parts. The Scottish Churches have 50 representatives in aetuai and lawful occupation of land, the English Universities Mission some 18 representatives, and the AMean Lakes Company over 25. The Church of Scotland has its centre of operations at Blantyre; the Free Church of Scotland in Nyassa Land; the English Universities Mission, with its headquarters at Zanzibar, joins the Missions on the Lakes; Messrs. Buchanan Brothers have plantations at Zomba (where the British Consuh~te is situated); and the African Lakes Company have stations throughout the entire Lakes route, from the coast to the southern .~hores of Tanganyika. The Scottish Churches have been at work there for twelve years, and the English Universities Mission for twenty-six years. A British Consul is attached to Nyassa.