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CHAPTER III. 
As we were now approaching the scene of action, I 
thought it right to issue to the Officers and Naturalists the 
following memorandum of regulations for our conduct 
while in the country. 
«« Although it is impossible to foresee all the circum- 
stances which, in the progress of the expedition, may call 
for the exertion of the utmost prudence and presence of 
mind in those who may have intercourse with the natives ; 
nevertheless the following observations are offered, with 
the certainty that an attention to them will be the means 
of avoiding the ill effects, which may as certainly be ex- 
pected from a different line of conduct to that which they 
recommend. 
‘«< Though we are not to expect to find in the natives of 
Africa, even in the most remote region, that state of savage 
nature which marks the people of other newly discovered 
countries, with whom the impulse of the moment is the 
only principle of action, it is nevertheless highly necessary 
