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when I arrived, as also of the want of good water — 

 for it is there pronounced brackish and bad — I regret 

 to have to say that expectations hoped for may 

 not be realised, but when I left, in December, 1885, 

 many of the plants had up to that time been kept 

 flourishing. 



In connection with the preparation of this Work, I 

 must also thank A, Hutton, Esq., of Liverpool ; Dr. 

 Murie, Linnean Society ; E. M. Holmes, Esq., Pharma- 

 ceutical Society ; T. Christie, Esq., and many others, 

 who will, I hope, be pleased to accept thus my grateful 

 acknowledgments. 



Want of sufficient time for it, absences from 

 England, and consequent withdrawals from many 

 -available places of reference, must serve as my apology 

 for any shortcomings, imperfections, omissions or 

 •commissions in this Book. Yet, as it stands, I trust 

 it may prove of some advantage. It may have 

 brought within readable compass some information 

 that has already in a scattered form appeared, and 

 may have for its issue additional interest towards the 

 further scientific and commercial development of a 

 country where above all other parts it behoves every 

 one connected with it to do his duty, for thus only can 

 be realised the expression of Sir George Campbell 

 i(vide Fortnightly Revietv of February, 1877) : — 



"The civilisation and utilisation of Africa is the 

 ^reat enterprise of the future," or, in other words, the 

 retribution of justice for the past. 



