JJ52 ExpedUwn into Central Africa. 



« The articles fitted for carrying on commerce with the natives have three 

 distinct objects :— First, by keeping up a constant appearance of traffic, to 

 present in their eyes an appreciable motive for this visit to their territory. 

 Second, to conciliate favour, or to procure provisions for the purpose of hus- 

 banding the resources of the expedition. And third, for the purpose of pro- 

 curing anv profitable articles to carry on to the other districts for the ends 

 above mentioned, or to sell in the colony at the termination of the enterprise. 

 In regard to these the Committee has to remark, that attention to the two 

 first mentioned objects is indispensable, from its necessary connection with 

 the safety and efficiency of the expedition, and that the third is to be contin- 

 gent on the acquisitions of the party in regard to its main object of collecting 

 information as to the country, and securing what illustrates its natural history 

 and resources, and on the state of its means of transport. The Committee 

 therefore recommend that this third object be attended to only in case that 

 it be necessary to send waggons back for supplies, or in case that in the home- 

 ward progress of the party, there be room for such articles without incom- 

 moding it in its other operations. 



(Signed " Thomas Wade, Chairman, J. Herschell, A. Oliphant, 



James Adamson, D. D., T. M'Leah, A. J. Cloete, C. F. 



vox LuDwiG, F. S. Watermeyer, Johx Centilivbes 



Chase, Hon. Secretary." 

 JuneiX 1834. 



CAPK EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE AFRICA * 



" Report of the Committee of Management of the Cape of Good Hope Association 

 for Exploring Central Africa. 



" The Committee has much pleasure in announcing to the subscribers the 

 receipt of despatches from Dr A. Smith, dated the 23d September 1834, at 

 Caledon River. 



« From these documents it appears that the jouniey from GraafF Reinet 

 to the frontier of the colony, was attended with much hinderance and trouble, 

 owiiif to the severe drought which has long been experienced in that part of 

 the country, and it is understood has extended very far beyond the colonial 

 boundary. 



" Upon the arrival of the exploratory party at Philipolis, a missionary sta- 

 tion belon^ng to the London Society, and the assumed capital of the Griqua 

 Chief Adam Kok, situated about twenty-five mUes to the north of the Nu- 

 Gariep or Black (Orange) River, Dr Smith, from the information he there 

 obtained, decided upon taking an easterly route, as the only one at that pe- 

 riod practicable, the drought preventing a safe access with ox waggons to the 

 Bechuana town of Latakoo, on the Kurumau River, which it had been pro- 

 posed to make the starting point of the expedition. 



" Had, however, this difficulty not intervened, Dr Smith considers that it 



» We are indebted to the Director-General Sir James MacGrigor for the above document in re- 

 gard to Dr Smith's expedition. 



