PREFACE. v 
doubt of the ultimate success of their endeavours after a free and 
flourishing state: but there are no ordinary difficulties to get over, 
no common wants to be supplied; and if the following pages shall 
in the slightest degree contribute directly or indirectly to supply 
those wants, or to smooth those difficulties, by calling attention to 
that country either as one particularly fitted for commercial inter- 
course, or as one whose natural resources and powers have yet to be 
cultivated, the writer will feel the truest satisfaction. 
