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them interest worthy of consideration, and, there- 

 fore, they are constrained to carry out agricultural 

 propositions which are rapidly transforming the 

 old-time prazoes, with their appalling abuses and 

 unprintable excesses, into centres of production 

 which will one day, however slowly, demonstrate 

 to home markets that this portion of Africa is a 

 producing area of no mean order. 



