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CHAPTEE XXIX. 

 Conclusion. 



Recapitulation of the results of the Expedition — Discovery of a port, and a 

 means of transit to healthy highlands — Fertility of soil — Indigo — Cotton 

 — Climate and soil admirably suited for its cultivation — Large cotton-bushes 

 of interior — Tobacco and castor-oil plants, and sugar-cane — Grasses — Con- 

 tinuous crops — Fat cattle — Droughts — Hard woods common — Timber 

 scarce — Sarsaparilla — Calumba-root — Fibrous and oil-yielding plants and 

 trees — Want of heart to describe discoveries in Africa — Gloom of the slave- 

 trade — Different ways in which it is carried on — Direct European agency 

 in the traffic — Napoleon III. — "Engage system" — Slave-trade a barrier 

 to all progress — Its effects on slave-owners' country — Cause of the war in 

 America — Similar effect of centuries of barbarism on African and other 

 nations — The African physically, his lightheadedness — Fitness for servitude 

 not attributable to climate — Form of Government Patriarchal — African 

 stagnation from same cause as that of other nations — Man an unconscious 

 co-operator — Guided by wisdom not his own — Is the greatest power 

 derivable from science reserved for Christians ? — The African's capability 

 for Christianity — Kindness the best road to the heart — Sierra Leone Mis- 

 sions — Sunday at Sierra Leone — Statement of Capt. Burton — Statistics 

 of Sierra Leone — Continuance of Lord Palmerston's policy needed — Trade 

 returns — Colonel Orel's report — Influences of Settlements — Mortality on 

 board the West Coast Squadron — Treatment of fever — Missionaiy Societies 

 on West Coast — Our American Missionary brethren — Suggestions for a 

 solution of our Convict Question — Colonel Ord on Settlements. 



It may be useful to recount the more iinjjortant results 

 enumerated in the foregoing pages. Among the first the 

 discovery of a port which could easily be made available 

 for commercial purposes, and of the exact value of the 

 Zambesi as a speedy means of transit to that interior of high- 

 lands, which in all probability will yet become the sphere of 

 European enterprise. The condition in which the river will be 

 found at its lowest has been carefully ascertained, and stated 

 in the same way as the depth of harbours usually is, namely, 

 at low water. However much higher the waters of the Zam- 



