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the year when Dr. Livingstone came down the river. It is 

 astonishing to any one who has seen the works for irrigation 

 in other countries, as at the Cape and in Egypt, that no 

 attempt has ever been made to lead out the water either of the 

 Zambesi or any of its tributaries ; no machinery has ever been 

 used to raise it even from the stream, but droughts and star- 

 vation are endured, as if they were inevitable dispensations of 

 Providence, incapable of being mitigated. Our friends at 

 Tette, though heedless of the obvious advantages which other 

 nations would eagerly seize, have beaten the entire world in one 

 branch of industry. It is a sort of anomaly that the animal, 

 most nearly allied to man in structure and function, should be 

 the most alien to him in respect to labour, or trusty friendship ; 

 but here the genius of the monkey is turned to good account. 

 He is made to work in the chase of certain " wingless insects 

 better known than respected." Having been invited to 

 witness this branch of Tette industry, we can testify that the 

 monkey took to it kindly, and it seemed profitable to both 

 parties. 



