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stronger temptation to cupidity than any thing I possessed. 

 When -we get beyond the hostile population mentioned, we 

 reach a very different race. On the latter my chief hopes 

 at present rest. All of them, however, are willing and 

 anxious to engage in trade, and, while eager for this, none 

 have ever been encouraged to cultivate the raw materials 

 of commerce. Their country is well adapted for cotton; 

 and I venture to entertain the hope that by distributing 

 seeds of better kinds than that which is found indigenous, 

 and stimulating the natives to cultivate it by affording 

 them the certainty of a market for all they may produce, 

 we may engender a feeling of mutual dependence between 

 them and ourselves. I have a twofold object in view, and 

 believe that, by guiding our missionary labors so as to 

 benefit our own country, we shall thereby more effectually 

 and permanently benefit the heathen. Seven years were 

 spent at Kolobeng in instructing my friends there; but, the 

 country being incapable of raising materials for exportation, 

 when the Boers made their murderous attack and scattered 

 the tribe for a season, none sympathized except a few 

 Christian friends. Had the people of Kolobeng been in 

 the habit of raising the raw materials of English commerce, 

 the outrage would have been felt in England; or, what is 

 more likely to have been the case, the people would have 

 raised themselves in the scale by barter, and have become, 

 like the Basutos of Moshesh and people of Kuruman, pos- 

 sessed of fire-arms, and the Boers would never have made 

 the attack at all. We ought to encourage the Africans to 

 cultivate for our markets, as the most effectual means, next 

 to the gospel, of their elevation. 



It is in the hope of working out this idea that I propose 

 the formation of stations on the Zambesi beyond the Por- 

 tuguese territory but having communication through them 

 with the coast. A chain of stations admitting of easy and 

 speedy intercourse, such as might be formed along the flank 

 of the eastern ridge, would be in a favorable position for 

 carrying out the objects in view. The London Missionary 



