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similarly, but probably the trial would be equally suc- 

 cessful. 



My journey to Loanda was productive of delight among 

 the natives whom I had left, and on returning to Linyanti 

 the chief sent several tusks to Loanda for sale ; the men 

 also got goods, but by the time they got back to Lin- 

 yanti, had been so afflicted with fever, that they were 

 all expended. Only 27 accompanied me to Loanda, but 

 when the people found I w r as going to find a path to the 

 east, 13 4 volunteered to join me. 



The people of that central part were anxious to have 

 intercourse with w T hite men, and their productions of 

 cotton, indigo, &c. cannot fail to render commerce with 

 them advantageous. Without the central basin, also, 

 besides cotton, 'there are extensive coal-fields, with nine 

 seams upon the surface, as well as an abundance of iron 

 ore of the best quality. There is also produced a fibrous 

 plant worth £50 or £60 a ton; and I have the authority 

 of an English merchant to state, that a fabric finer and 

 stronger than flax might be woven from it. The wild 

 vine grows here in great luxuriance, and might be 

 brought, by cultivation, to bear the most delicious grapes. 



On each side of the southern portion of Africa is an 

 elevated ridge, in the centre of which flows the Zambesi, 

 forming an oblong inclosure. The climate on the sides of 

 each elevation is different to that of the centre ; Mr 

 Moffat having found a species of the Angola goat, which 

 flourishes in the Northern part of Asia, on the high-land; 



