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deavour to extend the growth of cotton, as well as to teach the natives how 

 to till their land, taking out with him for these intents cotton-seed, gins, 

 ploughs, &c. He will further endeavour to bring to the English market a 

 vegetable called Buaze, which possesses so tough and fibrous a tissue as to 

 render it of great value even to the natives in their rude manufactures. 

 Specimens of this plant, which grows in profusion on the north bank of the 

 Zambesi, have been converted into a substance that has been pronounced by 

 a leading manufacturer to be worth, when prepared, between fifty and sixty 

 pounds per ton, and applicable to all purposes for which flax is employed. 

 In this material, therefore, alone, to say nothing of indigo, cotton, beeswax, 

 ivory, and the ores of iron, with much good coal, we have sufficient indication 

 that no time should be lost in establishing a regular intercourse with the 

 natives of so prolific a region. 



" Thus, acting as the pioneer of civilisation, Dr. Livingstone will first 

 engage the good will of the natives through their love of barter, and, having 

 secured their confidence by honesty of purpose, he will the more readily be 

 able to lead them to adopt the truths of that religion of which he is a minister, 

 and of the value of which his whole life is a practical illustration. 



" Fortunate is it for our country that we have in the Earl of Clarendon 

 a Minister of Foreign Affairs, who not less than the noble Premier has been 

 the consistent and vigorous supporter of every measure tending to root out 

 the trade in slaves ; and impressed as our Government is with the desire to 

 sow those seeds of civilization among the natives, and probably realise the 

 cheering prospect of a great production of the raw material necessary for our 

 manufactures by the independent nations of Africa, let us hope that, whilst 

 the Niger or Kwara Expedition under Baikie, to which I have adverted, is 

 working towards that good end upon the West, the benevolent and enter- 

 prising Livingstone, already so dear to the natives, may be sent back to 

 reside among his friends the Makololo, as the ' Agent of the Queen of the 

 people who love the Black Man.' " 



