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SOUTH AFRICAN 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 



SliCOKB S]S21ZES. 

 No. 3. APRIL— JUNE, 1834. Fart 3. 



INSTRUCTIONS ADDRESSED TO THE DIRECTOR 

 OF THE EXPEDITION INTO CENTRAL AFRICA. 



To Dr. Andrew Smith, for the J Director (for the time 

 being) of the Expedition into Central Africa^ 



Sir, — In offering to you certain general instructions for tlie 

 purpose of elucidating their views as to the object and conduct 

 of the enterprise committed to your direction, the Committee 

 of Management take the earliest opportunity of expressing 

 their confident reliance on your Zeal, Talents, and Experience, 

 as of themselves enabling you to apprehend and provide for' 

 the proper object and most beneficial detail in such an under- 

 taking, and they therefore expect that you should not con- 

 sider yourself bound by any decision of theirs, to adopt or 

 reject, in deference to their opinion, any measures of which 

 their views at present do not coincide with the judgment you 

 may be led to form in your progress. 



They feel certain, moreover, that any measure which you' 

 may conceive it necessary to adopt amid the unforeseen oc- 

 currences of this enterprise, will meet with approbation from 

 the Shardiolders. As, however, amid the incidents to be con- 

 sidered and provided for as contingent, the expedition may be 

 deprived of your services, it is the wish of the Committee that 

 the intention and the proper course of proceeding, as far as 

 such can be determined at present, should be defined and 

 rendered familiar to the parties composing the expedition. 



It is to be hoped that this may be only the first of a series 

 of efforts prosecuted by the same means, and deriving their 

 support from the same sources, but the fulfilment of this ex- 

 pectation must evidently depend in a great degree on its 

 success. We cannot expect that our limited Colonial Society 

 should feel justified in supporting any measure tending to 

 sacrifice its valuable members and waste its resources, for 

 •bjects solely of contingent and distant benefit, should it 



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