The Emigration Bureau

Periodical Melas

XX. How much will it Cost?

XXI. A Practical conclusion




PART I.--IN DARKEST INDIA.



CHAPTER I.

WHY "DARKEST INDIA?"


It is unnecessary for me to recapitulate the parallel drawn by General
Booth between the sombre, impenetrable and never-ending forest,
discovered by Stanley in the heart of Africa, and the more fearfully
tangled mass of human corruption to be found in England. Neither the
existence, nor the extent, of the latter have been called in question,
and in reckoning the submerged at one tenth of the entire population it
is generally admitted that their numbers have been understated rather
than otherwise.