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CONCLUSION. 



Plan recommended for trading with Central Africa, 



In the foregoing pages some account has 

 been given of an attempt to open a direct trade 

 with the interior of Africa ; and in the hope 

 that future adventurers in the same field of com- 

 mercial enterprise may avoid the errors commit- 

 ted in that attempt, and profit by the experience 

 resulting from it, it has been laid before the 

 public. The same motive induces me to offer 

 a few remarks on the means of bringing any fu- 

 ture enterprise of this nature to a more success- 

 ful issue : for although I am aware that, in pro- 

 posing any plan, I am labouring under the dis- 

 advantage attending every one who, failing in 

 his own speculations, feels the want of that 

 weight which success alone would have given to 

 his opinions, yet I consider that I should be 

 remiss in my duty to myself and to my country 

 if I did not state explicitly the causes which, in 



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