FUTURE OF AFRICA.--Having read in the papers that Mr. JOHNSTON, our
Commissioner in Central Africa, advocates the colonising of that country
by "the yellow races," I write to ask if it would be of any use for me
to apply? As I have now suffered from chronic jaundice for sixteen
years, complicated with intermittent attacks of bilious fever, and, as
my skin is usually of a bright orange, I think that I should fulfil Mr.
JOHNSTON'S requirements down to the ground. Some of my friends urge me
not to go because they are sure the swampiness of the country would
carry me off; but Africa can hardly be much swampier than Lower
Tottenham has been during the past autumn, and, personally, anything
that would really "carry me off" from the latter place I should welcome
as a blessed change. Perhaps some reader, with more knowledge of Africa
than I possess, could inform me whether there would be much danger of my
yellow complexion, in case of my having a fit of the blues out there,
being converted into _green?_ Would Mr. JOHNSTON in that case regard me
as a sort of colourable fraud, and ship me back home?